I obtained a trial of Gunbot during the holiday BTC climb and am pleased with the initial release.
I make the following statements of Gunbot and it's dev with unbias and I was not compensated.
I held off commenting on it's capabilities until I spent a few days using it with several cryptos.
I trade occasionally simply because I don't have all day to stare at the exchange sites and have been doing so for a couple years. This led me to researching some of the benefits of using a bot.
Gunbot is easy to use and definitely the perfect bot for beginners as well as intermediate traders. The O.P. has everything covered but Gunthar answers your questions promptly if needed. The config menu has your basic variables and start up is straight forward. Just after a few hours I felt comfortable enough to let it run and do its thing.
To answer a few questions: "Does it take a certain amount to trade with?" No and Yes. It will use a percentage of your holdings to trade with given your choice of preset trading style. I chose to use the 1000 trade mode at default settings and found it never using more than half of the balance available, Gunbot will actually hold trades based on these presets. So any amount can be traded using it but I would recommend trying it with a $50 balance or less for your first time. The larger amount you trade does have potential for larger gains in Gunbot but as a rule "never trade what your not willing to lose".
That leads me to the next question: "Does Gunbot truly never trade at a loss?" Yep, but this was my results from using defaults and over a 4 day period trading XMR, ETH, ZEC and DASH.
Now I did run into issues changing the variables which I wasn't familiar with but that is my fault and not Gunbots. So it is extremely important to test this with defaults until you fully understand the config menu and what the changes will do. Gunthar has done a great job at testing the default settings and advise you to use those and enjoy the positive profits.
Note: The following was using defaults and 1000 trade mode.
The main problem I found, which may have been fixed with the update which I did not test with, is trading volatile markets with huge spikes. This is advised in the O.P. to find markets that are more stable but what I found was Gunbot holding sell/buy targets too long while the market spiked up or down so it didn't trade at a loss. Which caused it to not trade at all leaving you with orders in your cue. Again I'm no expert and still learning the variables in the config menu and how they effect Gunbots trading style.
I applaud Gunthar for listening to some of the testers from this site and responding quickly in terms of support and changes they would like to see. It seems the update covered some of my main concerns, thanks!
I'm a hobby miner with a few rigs but what I can contest to is trading with Gunbot over the course of four days during the holidays created more profit daily given the initial investment and no operating costs.
My findings are my own and I'm sure it will only get better with new updates in the future.
~Meech