Yes it costs .17 BTC for half year.
Nothing is certain... but there are some pretty kickin' bots there:
https://cryptotrader.org/backtests/i5KYSvrwmr9DfLwBq
here's one I just built:
https://cryptotrader.org/backtests/Z6Q57HDBfmoNanmmP
add "cryptocat" to your browser and go to chatroom "cryptotrader" to chat... there are 10 members there now.
Hello, new to this Forum, but have been following it for quite some time. Thanks LitePresence for sharing your knowledge and more recently your trading bot testing results.
For the first kickin' bot you referred to above:
https://cryptotrader.org/backtests/i5KYSvrwmr9DfLwBq
it seems to me it only really is kickin' when trading on 2 hour candles, with the backtesting I have completed (see image below - hope it turns up, had to post from an online link and dropbox was my only option in that regard). Just learning so maybe I am doing something wrong here. Could you review these figures and advise if this might be the case, namely the trading periodicity is important for each separate trading bot one reviews and if so, shouldn't this be included in the header comments for a particular script?
Assumptions to my calcs:
1. Trader starts with 10 BTC only and selects two trading ranges.
2. First range starts on 31 July 2013 and continues to the present time. Someone who has gone very long and doesn't simply wish to be a BNH.
3. Second range represents a trader who lived through 29/29 November, got excited and started trading on 1 Dec 2013 and continues to the present time. A late in the game trader but not wishing to just be a BNH.
4. Buy trading fee set to 0.3% and Sell trading fee set to 0.2% for a total in and out of 0.5% to the exchange (fee structure @ Cryptsy - surely we should be able to conduct such trading bots there as well???).
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qew42b2x4k83pku/Backtesting2.jpg
In many cases, while one ends up with appreciable USD gains, it leaves the trader with less BTC (unless using 2 hour candles during long trading ranges). My goal is to increase the total number of BTC with any trading bot I use or develop on my own, not necessarily USD . . . long term accumulation strategy. Should my backtesting be correct for this trading bot, I really like what I see for the Noob who started on 1 Dec 13.
In the above backtest calculations, to get the 1 Hour Candles I needed to compute the 31 July 13 -> 14 Jan 14 date range in two parts given data limitations @ cryptotrader.
One big benefit of this particular script however, is that it provides example code for how to monitor many chart indicators (e.g. Ichimoku, RSI, MACD, WMA, HeikinAshi, etc. etc.)
In my quest to start learning CoffeeScript I have located these two resources:
http://arcturo.github.io/library/coffeescript/
http://coffeescript.org/
Wondering if you may have other CoffeeScript resource links you have found to be beneficial.
In time hoping to backtest various scripts and then classify them into chart types which they would be most effective. Also digging through a number of scripts should assist in learning CoffeeScript particularly as it applies to writing a Crypto Trading Bot. If you find other Kickin' Bots maybe you can link them here and I can compile a Excel spreadsheet database to share (various trading positions for which they apply - e.g. long term, short term bear, short term bull, bear and bull traps, and scripts that not just trade the BTCUSD or LTCUSD cross, but perhaps trade in and out of various Altcoins depending on which is moving at the moment - my ultimate scripting goal - perhaps you have come across one that does this already)
Fingers crossed the image turns up else the context of this post will be lost. Worst case you will need to review the image via the dropbox link provided.
