Launching Gekkoga on high-end EC2 Spot machine

So now that we know how to launch an EC2 instance from an Amazon EC2 AMI with batched gekko/gekkoga app/conf deployment, we want to learn how to use it on better CPU-sized machine, at a good price (Amazon EC2 Spot feature), so that we can -basically- bruteforce all possible parameters and inputs of a given trading strategy, using Gekkoga’s genetic algorithm.

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v2 – How to create an Amazon EC2 “small” VM and automate Gekko’s deployment

Note (18/02/2019): this is an updated version of the initial post about automating the launch of an Amazon EC2 Instance.

We tried Gekkoga’s backtesting and noticed it is a CPU drainer. I never used Amazon EC2 and its ability to quickly deploy servers, but I was curious to test, as it could make a perfect fit for our needs: on-demand renting of high capacity … Read more ...

How to create an Amazon EC2 “small” VM and automate Gekko’s deployment

Note (18/02/2019): a simpler deployment process is under active redaction.

We tried Gekkoga’s backtesting and noticed it is a CPU drainer. I never used Amazon EC2 and its ability to quickly deploy servers, but I was curious to test, as it could make a perfect fit for our needs: on-demand renting of high capacity servers, by using Amazon’s “Spot instance” feature. Beware, on EC2 … Read more ...