Don't forget MAC! Yes, it would be nice. The issue isn't truly with the OS or the code. One of those instances where we all share the love. It would have been impossible to have this big of a footprint on three platforms without an underlying coding platform like QT with a small IT shop. Crypto was just getting started and very risky. It took people with a keen understanding of markets and steel balls.

Hoping that an explanation might smooth the waters as it did for me after I was told the story.

The main issue is memory caching and memory management. Not a huge issue with linear or tabular data. But throw in all sizes of object data, then it is down to the language and the platform. Yes some OS's manage memory better than others as well. If you've been around that long then you'll have noticed things getting faster and more stable with fewer memory issues. The more refined QT gets as it ages, the better off things will be.

My remote server runs on Linux and I've really experienced many positive changes over the years.

Have fun with it, margin is getting better all the time!

CTShaman

I was away when the question was asked and missed this.

It is the Scale Strategy Bot that has this behavior.

CTShaman

I believe you only need 1  strategy to do what you ask. Here I have a strategy setup with 4 levels, the buy levels are $60 apart, the percentage of eff profit is 1%
I have the program set to add profit to allocated funds.
When I hit start it puts 4 buys out. Then as the buy takes place a sell order is created. After the sell order is filled it adds the reciprocal buy order adding in the profit to the buy order and thus the sell order and around we go.

The bottom picture is not showing off, the outcome is indicative of properly run scale strategies. Mind you this is also a very good market.

CTShaman

BTC/USDT


BNB/USDT

Thanks! I grabbed the last version 16 days ago and it has been working great!

CTShaman

You'd be best served by writing to support@margin.de directly.

CTShaman

Potential Magic Moment approaching where optimism becomes belief. Every time BTC has transcended $11,000 we have been favored with nice gains, we are now at the doorstep.

I do hope though it takes a slow and ponderous time to rise to the apex so margin has an opportunity to speckle my graph with gold like it has in the past.





The graph is from V3 running on a Ubuntu 18.04.2 VPS.

Hope your summer is going as well as mine!

Happy Trading!

CTShaman


PS. "I want to believe."

Congratulations and well done Margin Team! I waited until I had profit from the new exchange before posting this.


A side note to Linux users I did have to add a few libraries to my barebones vps.
sudo apt install libxcb-xkb-dev libxkbcommon-*

With KuCoin being ranked #2 in real volume this can only be a win-win relationship.



All of this coming with an uptick in the market too, how good does it get?

Happy Trading,

CTShaman

Before you head out for the weekend make sure you have margin setup to do the trading for you.

Because BTC is coming through the squeeze and breaking to the high side.

and that means..


Happy Trading! 

CTShaman

Many thanks to you both!

@mesavoida - saw your Trust post before it was moved to the public page, I couldn't respond directly because n00bs can't send or receive replies, I couldn't thank you personally.

Don't forget in a week or so when this is resolved to everyone's satisfaction to come back and delete the pictures of the negative banner  from your posts.

Thanks and Happy Trading!

CTShaman 

Since April one of the things I have appreciated most about margin is its efficiency between bull runs. As things taper off and prepare for the next effort I kind of get bored looking at how high the market has to go before my trades resume trading. So what I've begun doing is putting in one additional trade on a 5 minute EMA window to kind of chum the waters. Actually if everyone did this same thing volumes would never fall to what they have this week.

All I'm saying is that for a few bucks invested on a day like today where most everything is in the green I put out a minimalist trade on multiple pair just to have something to watch, kind of comforting I think. If enough of them come through I'll make my sever fee everyday. 

Hopefully this will help some of you to endure the Dog Days of Summer. 

Happy Trading!

CTShaman

Binance Announcement for USDT Hodlers

Binance Will Change USDT Deposits & Withdrawals to be ERC20-based
ref.
https://www.binance.com/en/support/articles/360030263211

This should help those using anonymous software wallets to consolidate wallets, IE Exodus.

I'm looking for an uptick in the market after the US holiday and certainly by mid-week next week.

Happy Trading!

CTShaman

I jumped on this as I wanted to add the ALGO/USDT pair.
Another smooth transition, congrats to the margin team! 

Glad for these updates as margin is taking me to the moon! 

Happy Trading!

CTShaman

A little something for the Summer Solstice and BTC hitting $10,000 at the same time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH4SiKJr_2c

CTShaman

It looks great! The only difference I noticed on startup was it took twice as long before it rendered the margin screen but it initialized 3x as many pair before the screen rendered so I think we're ahead!  

Got to hurry back to watch the "ONE" coin!

Thanks,

CTShaman

During yesterday's contraction I updated margin and it was the smoothest quickest update so for with no issues resuming strategies, it was spot on in every instance and amazingly it loaded from the start the outlandish number of pair I use.

Kudos to the margin team and thanks!

CTShaman

Hey Richard, I've stuck with what I defined in the post you quoted. Only thing changing is I've been increasing the amount of the transactions as the market grows and only a few pair at a time as their sell orders come through. Each rally has given up some of the hodls I have left. I'm down from 3 pages to 1 page of hodls.

Having learned so much in the last year and a half, I started with mArgin maker strategy, it is hard to go wrong in an up all green market, but as things deteriorated I moved to Bollinger Band which is great, and now to EMA. Trading has really forced me to deal with my patience issues, I now trade with no more than 2% a pair.

My next lesson will be to how to gracefully exit the market in a downturn, I've already started by taking 20% out of the market for every 25% of earnings and not let the LET IT RIDE attitude prevail like in January and August of 2018 when I had half the cost of my retirement home and let it ride all the way to December when I had visions of living in a discarded dryer or washer box. 

Play with what I'm using, make subtle changes and make it your own, do it your own way once things stabilize for you, it will just feel right when your own  tweaks are added. 

Happy Trading,

CTShaman

Getting the Most Bits for the Buck from your Ubuntu (any Linux) VPS while running margin:

I have found that most commodity (read cheap) VPS hosts do not pre-build Ubuntu images with swap. This is so they can lease you a larger server than you may really need.

Two antidotes for this particular malady are the packages swapspace and zram-config.

1.) swapspace -- This little known package was first introduced to me by Jonathan (of margin.de fame) in a post here a year and a half ago. I had always hand crafted my own swap and so never had a reason to look for anything else. But this is the far better way to go for persistent swap.
http://pqxx.org/development/swapspace/

2.) zram -- I only found zram yesterday. zram is included in the kernel on by default in Ubuntu since 16.04 but I had never heard of it. However it is not turned on by default. The package to do this is zram-config. Now on the onset it seems like you'll be creating more overhead in memory but it actually works very slick. It partitions swap drives in memory 1 per CPU then compresses the data to be stored there. It works so fast I've installed it on my laptop to keep anything from writing to the SSD swap, very fast and almost no overhead. Some people may opt to use this tool alone for increasing available memory.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2018/05/14/running-out-of-ram-in-ubuntu-enable-zram/

*Note reboot for zram is not required (in case you are in the middle of a rally). 
# systemctl start zram-config

Here is the display for my 2 core VPS.


Both of these can be used together for snappy response times right up until the time the system CPU starts fluctuating from trying to manage the overload.

Happy Trading and may all your Hodls be Sodl! 

CTShaman

Hey, if you've got Linux in your toolkit, I'd give that a try. There have been only two instances where I've logged in to the server and said OH SH*! it died. A few other times it happened when I got heavy handed with the graphical tools, not so much anymore as it is getting better all the time. Keep an eye on the usual things, you'll want a couple gig of memory and not run out of drive space.

Checkout this page:
https://margin.de/resources/help-center

Happy Trading,

CTShaman

The Great LONG!
https://www.fxstreet.com/cryptocurrencies/news/top-3-price-prediction-bitcoin-ripple-ethereum-two-steps-away-from-the-great-long-201905160913

I concur with this analysis as I have a BTC long waiting just below $8500 where we were on July 25, 2018 at the last apex just before BTC lost 60%.

Once the hodls from July 25th have cleared there should be an avalanche of money to carry us to the magic $10,000 BTC where FOMO will kick in, after that who knows maybe $14,700 by the end of summer? 

Don't forget to set aside 20-25% from time to time for your rainy day fund. 

Happy Trading!

CTShaman

That would be a great one for support@margin.de they're very helpful.

CTShaman