I have a new feature request: the ability to reinstate a previously canceled bot without having to enter or import it all over again.

OK, that makes sense. I wasn't sure if fields that the bot normally automatically populates would be needed to be filled or not. What about the ID and Active fields? Do they also need to be filled out?

That looks like a good tool. Will you please consider adding DNotes to your list of coins to track? It has both POS rewards and something called CRISP which is where the block chain deposits 0.5% to each address that has kept a balance for the previous month (similar to SMART Cash).

https://chainz.cryptoid.info/note/

And my first attempt to import all my new bots caused the program to crash. I tried twice.

Something interesting to note. I decided to start all over with my bots (because I ended up wanting to change them) so I'm working through and canceling them in the bot program (one by one). When I hit a bot whose standing order was canceled by Bittrex, I get the following error message, and then while that message is showing, I see the green confirm screen in the bottom right corner of Bittrex indicating that my order was canceled. So even though Bittrex already taken those orders off the books, and the bot recognizes that they are no longer on the trading platform (because it's telling me to cancel on the UI), it seems Bittrex still maintains some record of those orders. I'm thinking that might be important when it comes to programming the bot to replace those orders when Bittrex cancels them after 28 days.

Bittrex' policy is to autocancel any orders not filled within 28 days according to this article: https://bittrex.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/202227464

So, I'm wondering if the bot could have some kind of auto-renew of orders that expire and get canceled?

I have a bug to report: Bittrex apparently cancels orders that it considers to be out of range after some amount of time has passed. So in the market I'm playing with, the price took a dive about a month ago but I opted to leave my high orders up for the time being. Well Bittrex decided I really didn't need them to stay open any longer, which is quite irritating. Anyway, I wonder if there would be a way to have the bot detect orders that are supposed to be open on the exchange but aren't and then replace them with new ones. I guess Bittrex keeps orders up for just a month? I remember them saying something about canceling orders that don't fill and are some percentage above or below the going rate because they don't want a bunch of orders in their system that might never fill. However, I worked pretty hard to get them all into the bot, decided I wanted to keep them anyway, and now Bittrex has dropped them, and at this point the bot program is not automatically replacing them. Any way to make the bot "smart" in the sense that it will know/detect when the exchange has canceled one of its orders and then replace it unless I have canceled it within the bot program itself?

That's great news! I used to trade a lot on Poloniex but haven't in a long time. I think the magic kind of died on me back when they delisted DNotes, and around that time they also delisted another coin I was into (forcing me to go to Cryptopia to trade it!).

One trick to know about Coinbase Pro is that their trades are all free if they are limit orders. However, if it's a market order, then you pay the fee. When using the trading bot continuously, most of the trades will start as limit orders. However, often when first entering the market, or in the case where the bot subscription lapses for a bit and then gets renewed and then the bot "catches up" on placing all the bot orders, those orders end up being market orders. So, if trading without fees is important to the user, I wonder if there would be a way to work it in that all orders will be limit orders (no market orders) and give the user the ability to select that option. Now that I'm typing it out, it sure sounds more complicated and possibly more trouble than it's worth. But, it's something to think about anyway.

I do have a much easier feature request: A minimize option. Sometimes I want to do other work and be able to see my desktop without the bot crowding  the space, but still have it working in the background

One exchange I'd love to see on it is Coinbase Pro. It might be fun to apply a bot to the BTC-USD market there, especially since trading fees are zero for limit orders.

With that said, take your time. I'm not necessarily ready to jump on something like that right now should it become available.

On a technical level, the bot program works very well. It does exactly what you program it to do. So, once you set up your grid--all the buy prices and sell prices and amounts, the bot program will take care of the rest.

You do have to keep your computer (with the bot) on and connected to the Internet at all times to make sure that when one order fills, the bot replaces it with its complement. So, if you're like me and have your bot set up on a laptop and then actually transport your laptop somewhere, you might want to have it open and connected to your phone wifi hotspot so it doesn't miss a trade en route (ha ha).

You can subscribe to the bot for as little as one week to try it out, so it won't be too much money out of your pocket (around $2.80 worth of DNotes I think). Just know that the bot will go inactive after the subscription period is up until you pay for it again.

My problem right now is that as DNotes warned, my market went south with all my bots at higher prices and I currently don't have funds to add bots at the lower price range. I don't want to remove my higher bots because I want them to be ready if/when the market goes back up again. But I did pretty well, "earning" close to three times what I paid for the bot (I got a month) while the market was in range, so I can't complain. On the bright side, if the market doesn't recover and I don't have funds by the time I need to renew my subscription I'm pretty sure I can just let the bot go inactive for a while until I decide to use it again and it will have all my bots saved and ready to go once I pay again.

I can't make a video of it right now as that would be a new skill for me and I have to prioritize (busy life outside of crypto and all). But if you have any further questions, feel free to post them here or DM me.

That's a good problem to have! I just updated (again) and it was a smooth process. I'll try to play around with the import bot function later today or tomorrow. Do you have a template file for the import, with all the headings filled in? I could just try to follow the exact format that's written in the program, but I'm not sure how to handle things like "ID" and "active" which self populate when other fields are entered.

OK, I just updated and it looks good! When I switched the exchange to Bittrex it pulled up the market my bot is already in! Now to get more funds to add some more bots...

Great! What are the steps to make sure the update still retains all the current bots? Do I need to install the new version into the same folder as old version, replace old version? What exactly do I do for the best transition? Thanks!

Thank you! That worked!

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I'm trying to figure out the proper API url to get the balance for a specific DNotes wallet address from chainz.cryptoid.info. All the API instructions are here: https://chainz.cryptoid.info/api.dws , but it's not obvious to me how to construct the url to get balance for a specific address.

Thanks in advance for any coders who answer this question.

Does anybody here know what the API call for the Chainz.cryptoid DNotes block explorer would be for obtaining the balance of a specific DNotes address?

This is what I've come up with, but I'm not sure where to insert the "a=[address]" bit

http://chainz.cryptoid.info/note/api.dws?q=getbalance      a=[address]

I have an API question. What would be the url if I wanted to obtain the balance for a specific address. On the API instruction page you give examples using the "q" parameter, but none using the "a" parameter.

To use a specific example, what API url would I use to get the balance for DNotes address SMkyt5hFytNnsDTEoDasSrh8t1QtYx74Wv ?

Thanks in advance for the help!

Looks like the council could use a capable writer/editor for their news releases!

Awesome! Looking forward to the next update, though I have to say the Bot program already works very well.

Thank you for the reply, FuzzyBear! Much appreciated.