Topic: Happy New Years! Seventh alt coin thread! - page 11. (Read 34194 times)

I've always wanted to try one of those bots. Back when I was trading I had developed some interesting strategies using Bloomberg's backtesting functionalities just for the lulz. BTC was top of the pops for trend following and momentum strategies. I can only imagine alts would do very well with such strategies.

Too many things to try, too little time. Story of my life. At least I managed to build a dozen of mining rigs.

I have Gunbot. Tried my very best to learn and gave up after a few days.

PT2 however, was surprisingly easier to learn - thanks to Wiki and Discord, where I can ask questions, pros/cons of each strategy etc. For me, I wanted a strategy that take advantage of this volatile crypto market, so hit & run & scalper strategy. If I want to earn 10-20 bucks profit per trade and the bot does hundreds of trades per day = $??? 

@citronik ahh thats for the info, seems a bit complicated for a beginer, I was thinking of trying out gunbot or another of those well known ones that have some built in a.i or default settings for agressive trading or conservative

i’ll probably play with that and look into yours as well

Profit Trailer v2
https://wiki.profittrailer.com/doku.php?id=start

Need a bit of learning curve, took me about 3 whole days to read up the wiki and experiment using test-mode, join the discord and learn some more. Started with 0.3 BTC for the bot to follow my trading rules (Gnome settings, with some adjustments from yours truly). The bot made about $100 in 2 days with 0.3 BTC capital in the beginning. Then I increased starting BTC to 1 BTC, adjusted the spread and also increased the initial buying price. That was about 4 days ago. Total profit made by the bot is just over 1.1k in 7 days. Amazing. Call it lucky.... but the way the market went up and down in the past week - the bot took advantage of the volatility was able to buy low and sell high. This bot was able to trade without emotions, as expected.... and sometimes this will come with pros & cons.

In summary, read wiki and learn some trading strategies before investing in the bot. At the end of day, it will only follow what you tell it to do. There is no AI or whatsoever in the bot.

Disclaimer: I am no financial expert or advisor. Commentary above is purely my review and experimentation purposes only.

thats a crazy 1 day gain , I thought bots were just another scam , which ones do you use?

LOL... the more volatile the market, the better the bot performs.
Don't be afraid to increase your initial buy price and add a bit more spread

Man citronick,  you passed some of that luck my way apparently, had a smashing day... send more of that luck my way buddy... ill take these types of days everyday!!!

Most of my rigs use servers for the main computing unit with risers plugged into them, the Xeon's seem to be the same load with 1 miner going vs 6 miners going. I did have a lot of issues with the one mining rig i still had on an Onda board, but ive since moved it over to a spare server i had as a backup for server failures...

ambient temps hit 83 today and my garage was up to 120 degrees , turned off
my 3 a3s, 6 s9s and stopped dual mining on the six rigs I was mining verge on

gotta figure out a way to cool things down, i have six exhuast fans alrrady but i need an intake
fan i think

yeah  those were nice days.

I just got a small payment for  my Xevan may stop mining it.

Im about to swap one of my friends over to CN7 tonight or tomorrow;  Xevan profits have dwindled, and hes finally started maintaining a XMR wallet....

He has 6 1080's and a few 1080ti's.   Should help with the power bill as well.  I miss mining skein, when the power draw was low and the profits were massive....

I too am mining CN7 these days, but switched from Cast to SRBminer. The latter is honestly pretty awesome. Stabler, faster, everything. Give it a whirl if you haven't already... Both my Vega and RX 570 rigs have improved.

With each GPU running a separate miner, have you had any issues with the CPU (or RAM) not keeping up? In our experience the system gets too laggy and unstable if there's 3+ miners open at the same time. That would be with cheap dual core Celeron/Pentium CPUs and 4GB RAM; on our Ryzen 5 1600 rigs the CPU has no problem keeping up of course.

A good ZEC mining pool? Last year I was mining on flypool, it was rewarding really good. I haven't mined recently ZEC. If you know better pools, please shoot

Thats awesome, looks like your getting it, i just started switching over to the new PT2 version from 1.x, i hung out on the discord a while back, but i found many of the people on there just want to lead you down a bad road or try to give you enough info to lure you into buying something, so i stopped hanging out on that channel.

Ill have to look into using RSI in my pairs, currently i have them all tuned on EMAGAIN only, its been working well with me, when i first started i tried different things like lowbb, but i kept getting caught by the pump and dumps, so i switched to emagain and a period length that cut out all the pump and dumps on charts...  You have been doing better than me the last 5 days it seems, so keep it up, but your trading a lot higher trade amounts over me, im currently only trading $150 per trade, i seem to be averaging around 1% a day when you average it out over my high days and low days. I had a killer day last Thursday, 7.1% day, 103 trades in a single day.

The Vega64 was at full Armageddon mode at 100% max fans - in my early testing, I am surprised that Claymore can make it go flat out like that. I am back to CN7 w/cast Vega64 miner -- good profits this CN7.

@Storx, started PT2/Bittrex close to about a week now ~ Day 5, total profits just under 1k ~ avg profits 1.6%-2.2%. past few days was quite good with several good (lucky?) trades. Starting balance of 1 BTC, Max $500 per trade. Adjusted buy/sell spread +20%, using LOWBB & RSI buy strategies and GAIN sell strategies. High learning curve this bot, but somewhat manageable compared to the other bots. Thanks to Discord group and burning the midnight oil reading the wiki and TA resources and strategies - I think I have fine-tuned the bot with optimized "safe and steady" parameters - ready to be sent to a VPS and let the bot do its thing. I am tempted to get a few bots to work on different market scenarios.

I haven't really kept abreast with that thread for the simple reason that my 6x Vega rig is "only" powered by a 1500W PSU. Going full beans Neoscrypt (+50% power limit) as per Claymore's suggestions would drive the Vegas a lot harder than 200W actually. We're  talking a lot closer to 300. So I'd have to actually lower my PL to mine NeoScrypt on the Vegas, which kinda lowers hashrate quite substantially.

Hey all,

Hope profits were in your favor lately, ive been out of the loop on mining, ive kinda fallen into a back burner farmer and have spent more time in my real estate business ive been slowly building up as i obtain rental properties. The mining and bots have been a nice and steady income for me to fall back on during the slower months when very little houses are available on the wholesale market to purchase.

Updates on the farm, up till this weekend the water loop peaked 60c on a 94F day here in Florida, so i spent the weekend extending my loop another 1000ft with more pex tube, ive decided im not ready to add radiators and fans into the farm again, im seeing how far i can run this off geothermal alone on the cooling, the addon 1000ft i buried it about twice the depth compared to the first loop i installed on the system and connected it all up and got it running Sunday about mid-day. The temp outside was 91F and the loop was only peaking 46c with the reconnect, but the system only saw the 91F for a few hours at most with the addon. I am trying to get ready for the upcoming approaching summer temps....

The mining hardware has been rock stable, i made a huge adjustment in the way the mining is implemented on my rigs, previously i had all the rigs setup farming as group of cards and after talking with someone who is a much larger farmer than im currently at, he experimented with solo-card farming and found it made his rigs more stable and made troubling cards stick out far easier, allowing for diagnosing to be easier. I ungrouped all my rigs and now have the GPU's mining solo, with their own specific benchmark settings to determine which algo is best for it to switch to. So a 6 card rig has 6 individual miners doing their own thing, mining their own algo's based on individual benchmark settings. Some huge takeaways from this, is that the rigs that i was having random lockups/hiccups on, the rig itself no longer goes down as a whole with miners not loading due to cards greyed out or frozen, now only the GPU on those rigs that is causing the headaches is locking up and the rest is just happily farming away. I also installed a TV in my office that runs off an amazon firestick, which is web browsed to my awesome miner display via the local host, i have it setup on the simple dashboard that only shows the amount of GPU's mining and estimation of profits, so if i look up at that screen i can quickly see if a GPU is down from the number changing... then i look into which GPU it is and proceed from there... 

In regards to the bots, boy they have been killing it, this month has been a huge month for me and i think it boils down to all the time ive spent adjusting the settings for every pair i trade, im currently up to 110 pairs charted out and settings inputted for trading...
Example: Just since midnight and its coming up on 6am, im already up like 1.7% with the one bot in profit for the day.

Back in 2013 I met an individual locally who I found on Craigslist who was selling an Radeon 7950 at a fair uninflated price. This was back when LTC was going nuts.

The GPU seemed cheap I assumed it might be broken actually.

But after talking with the guy it turns out he used to mine BTC with GPUs back in the day. And he decided to just retire from mining because he had so much BTC that even if he mined for an entire year he wouldn't even make 1% of his crypto worth.

He said that the constant worry of burning down his house, constantly monitoring and restarting rigs, constant checking for new shitcoins to mine, constant heat and constant noise complaints from his girlfriend. He just said it wasn't worth it to him.

Im not a super early adopter, started mining scrypt in 2013 then sold all gear and came back before the eth. pump

all my hardware is paid off , im not worried about profitability dropping even when prices are low i make enough to pay for power and bills since im a garage miner.  Im not holding much coin tho atm which is risky , but now with profits going back up i can start speculating again