Hi everyone, I am trying to set CAT so that it use only a part of the balance.

For example: I have 500USD and I want use only 300USD on ETH/USD Market.
I have set "Limit Buy Pool ZUSD Max Value to" at 300 but it still create a ping order with the full balance of 500.
It is possible to use a fixed amount of USD to create ping order so that gains after a PONG order are not reused for ping?

Thanks

james

Do you plan to add trailing stop in 5.2?

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I am trying to get the best way to use CAT but I need an example to get what I am missing.
Let me make an example.
I buy 1 bitcoin at 1000USD (ping order)
I put a gain of 1% so 0.5% fees and net gain 0.5%.
Bitcoin keep rising.
First pong order close at 1010USD with a net gain of 5
This generate a new ping (buy) order at 1020. But I have only 1005 in my portfolio so I cannot buy 1 bitcoin but only 0.9
That generate a new pong at 1020 so another 5USD of net gain.
And so on until the price keep rising.
Let us assume that we close here the sequence
Bitcoin value 1020. My balance 1000+5+5=1010
So I was in a rise period, I have succesfully completed ping pong trades but I have less money in my account compared to what I will have if I have done nothing.
So what am I missing? From my calculation the only way to make more money on a rising edge is that the ping (buy) order gerated after a pong is at a lower price compared to the pong that generated it. But if I am on a rising phase that would not happen.
Can anyone give me an example to understand where I am wrong?

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OK, thanks. I am starting to understand how it works.
So the major risk of losses is given by a pong (buy) not closed because the price rise and never drop to the pong level.
In order to minimize that losses there is some parameters that I can adjust?

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ok, i get it.
Now let us assume that the pong is over. So CAT will start a new ping with a sell order.
But now the market XBTEUR is going up. How CAT choose the time and the price to put that order?

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that's what I do not uderstand.
In the log I see this:
Current Orders/Trades : 0 Ping, 1 Pong, 0 Trades From Ping, 0 Orders To Restore, Pool Values : Buy 0.00000000/Sell 0.00000000
I still have a 1 pong but buy and sell are both 0

I understand that, but now I am after the gain phase, so the cycle is back to buy/sell pool in the diagram.
Which is the trigger event that tells CAT to create the new ping order? Because the gain phase was completed 14 hours ago.

Thanks again for your kind support.

If I understand correctly the guide a partial order has an independent life.
So completed pong shoud not generate new ping?
Why it is inot happened? It is been several hours since the pong was completed.
Which is the trigger that set a new ping?

In te buy/sell Pool frame I always see 0 even if I click update values.
Is it normal?

I am new to CAT so I am still learning
I have placed a sell order (PING) on the XBTEUR market. The sell was completed in 7 trades which generate a PONG (buy) order which has partially completed (6 of 7 trades).
Which are the condition for the algoritm to start a new PING?
The previus PONG has to be completed in full?

THanks