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We saw in previous posts how to install gekko, use it, and customize our first strategy.
But, as we figured out, every strategy, shall it be your own custom one or any Strat you will find on Internet with excellent backtests results showed by its creator, also needs to be tweaked, for a specific market, currency, asset, and it means we need … Read more ...
Now that we’ve briefly seen how to install gekko and how to use its main functionalities, we will try to customize a first strategy.
As a first step, you need to review Gekko’s excellent standard documentation:
I won’t explain here all the functions used, since it is explained in the standard documentation, and you have links … Read more ...
Now that we installed Gekko, we need to feed it with data, and make it useful. Please, keep in mind that a trading bot is in NO WAY an insurance to earn money, as it will depend on the logic of your strategy, and on the markets (currency & asset) you will use.
We will follow 4 simple steps :
Installing gekko is quite simple, everything is described on its homepage, thanks to Mike von Rossum, Gekko’s creator & maintainer.
On a standard Linux distro (I use a small Debian VM on an Intel NUC running vSphere acting as a personal server at home):
Install nodejs:
sudo apt-get install nodejs
Install git:
sudo apt-get install git
Install Pm2 (not mandatory but … Read more ...