I'll accept that I probably just don't know how to get it to do these things so perhaps some guidance on what I'm doing wrong?
First, I've manually shut down the bot (no crashes) and when reopening, my settings aren't there. Am I missing something? A switch or toggle somewhere?
The margin maker bot runs fine for awhile and eventually just stops but I don't see a setting that tells it to keep running or to stop explicitly. I'm using the standard 25% on upper and lower bars and running it on a few coins. If the coins stay within that margin it'll keep running but it seems to stop if it goes above and below so when I talk about auto-adjusting, it doesn't seem like it is. Maybe I'm not setting it up correctly so perhaps you could provide an example of a setup for say XMR/BTC trading on Polo. I'm very happy to learn from mistakes but again, I'm not seeing what's causing the bot to stop.
The rising and falling of the market is hit and miss really. When I said it stops that's because it usually does and I think it's related to the settings (which I'm not positive about setting correctly) so again, an example would be great.
I have faith in the bot which is why I plunked down the bitcoin for it so I'm not trying to mock it or you guys. I think it's mostly that since it has a good many options and most of them (to me at least) don't really make a ton of sense, makes it difficult to set it up correctly. Perhaps guidance in these areas will remove that problem and I'll happily eat my words.
Thanks
Thanks for your reply Percivul,
First, I've manually shut down the bot (no crashes) and when reopening, my settings aren't there. Am I missing something? A switch or toggle somewhere?
This should not happen so there is definitely a problem! My first suggestion is to delete the hidden .leonArdo folder (the settings are stored there). Before you delete it please make sure you have saved your API keys as they will also get deleted. You could also check whether the explicit manual save works. Let me know!
The margin maker bot runs fine for awhile and eventually just stops but I don't see a setting that tells it to keep running or to stop explicitly. I'm using the standard 25% on upper and lower bars and running it on a few coins. If the coins stay within that margin it'll keep running but it seems to stop if it goes above and below so when I talk about auto-adjusting, it doesn't seem like it is. Maybe I'm not setting it up correctly so perhaps you could provide an example of a setup for say XMR/BTC trading on Polo. I'm very happy to learn from mistakes but again, I'm not seeing what's causing the bot to stop.
The mArgin maker bot allows you to set relative margins and this means that they adapt depending on what happened in the history window you set. However, if the course changes at an inopportune time (which will always happen at some point
), you can allow the bot to take a loss in order to continue trading. The parameter that allows this is the "Min effective gain". You can practice different settings using one of the demo markets in order to get a good feel for what it does.
Thanks for your support Percivul.
All the best,
Jonathan