Nah, I'm pretty confident that's not him...
@HCP: did he open a new private group or something? Are you still involved over there?
Just asking out of morbid curiosity...
I had been quietly sitting on this hoping to have a bit more 'data' to throw at an update... but you've kinda forced my hand
so, here we go...
Soooooooo, after a number of months of "The Platform"™ being close to release... it finally arrived in early April. Ladies and Gentlemen (and attack helicopters)... I give you :
BotHIVE.io! Tada!!!
note: click image for link to fullsize version at imgur
The Platform™Firstly, it's in a "closed beta" at the moment... so only previous users of Arakne are able to register... and I can't remember if the Arakne Telegram group was closed and the new BotHIVE.io one was opened, or the name was simply changed... but there
is still a Telegram Group.
I got a "fee credit" for my losses from Arakne:
So currently (with some trading)... apparently my "total portfolio" is now just over the 0.1
BTC that I initially started this journey with:
Although, it does need to be noted that "credit" fee balances
cannot be withdrawn:
So, in effect... I only have my "bankroll" available (which is the money that is actually on BitMEX) and I'm still down ~0.065 BTC:
As before, you are required to create keys on BitMEX, only this time they're IP locked to BotHIVE.io systems:
Different from before, you now have to have a "fee balance" on the BotHIVE.io system, so they can deduct the 30%(!!?!
) commission from your trades... there are some rules around withdrawal of this balance:
Min withdrawal is 0.0004
BTC
The BotsCurrently there are TWO bots available... Arakne is not one of them
We now have "Manticore":
And "Aethon":
You can choose to use either, or both, of the bots, but
if you want to run both,
each bot must have it's own BitMEX account as each account is only allowed 2 API keys, and they have to be unique for each bot etc.
It should be obvious that there has been some "back testing" going on as these graphs appear to have been started in January 2019... so as usual, the ROIs claimed are quite unbelievable.
You can see from the screengrabs that I have chosen "Aethon", simply because Manticore looked way to aggressive/risky for my already depleted bankroll.
Bots are "customisable":
Settings "explained":
I honestly don't really understand any of it... so I'm running with just the default "AI" settings... I'm not really buying the 17% ROI either
TradingTrading results have been "positive"... albeit small gains... and it's difficult to work out %'s etc (I'll explain why below):
Daily PNL:
Trade History:
Order History:
FrustrationThe UI/UX, while "adequate" is pretty horrible imo... like putting the close dialog window "X" icon
at the bottom of the screen??!? (note: not at the bottom of the dialog, but the bottom of the screen! refer to:
this screenshot)
WTF??!?
Also, due to the Owner being a bit paranoid about "Copy Trading", there are some new rules regarding setup and use of API keys. You are only allowed exactly TWO API keys
per BitMEX account. One "Order+Read" Key and One "Read-only" key... as mentioned, these are also IP locked to the BotHIVE systems.
The upshot of this is that I can't create a "Read-only" for something like coinmarketman.com (which actually had really nice graphs and showed my complete BitMEX history)... I tried, and the BotHIVE system deactivated the bot because I had more than 2 API keys!
and I can't use the existing "read-only" API key because it is IP locked
Now, BitMEX does provide the ability to export histories in CSV, but unfortunately, coinmarketman.com does not support importing data via CSV etc
So, it appears that I will have to manually use the CSV download from BitMEX and work all this shit out myself.
Anyone got any recommendations for a site like coinmarketman.com that accepts imported data via CSV? In the meantime, here is an ugly chart from Excel that mimics the one from coinmarketman.com which shows the (lack of) "performance" of my initial 0.1
BTC since I
got drunk and foolishly commenced this experiment.
THINGS TO NOTE:
- The first streak of grey in Dec was after the first hiccup and Arakne was shutdown while the dev attempted to "fix it".
- The long streak of grey from early Feb to Early Apr was when Arakne finally got shutdown permanently because it was obviously "broken". During this time, "The Platform"™ wasn't running either.
- The short streak of grey from the last week happened because apparently their IP got banned by BitMEX, so all the bots got shutdown...
without bothering to tell the users!
I think I missed some good trades in the last week too!
The devs tell me that it's now setup to automatically email users should this happen again.
TLDR;Dev of Arakne Bot that wiped out 67% of my 0.1
BTC investment has finished creating his bot platform website and given closed beta access to previous Arakne users. I've been running it for about a week. It's made some very small gains (~1.1%). The UI is a bit clunky.