ZeroGox - Hosted MtGox trading bot

[caktux]

ZeroGox is a hosted version of goxtool.

• SSH to your trading bot
• Up and running in minutes
• Includes a balancer and buy/sell strategies
• Track your bot's performance in your Stats page
• Simulate trades (paper trading) to test your settings (alpha)
• 1 month free trial
• Safe, simple, no bullshit and open source

Hosted:
https://zerogox.com

GitHub project (usage, docs and code):
https://github.com/caktux/goxtool

Launch promotion - bitcoin giveaway! (starts January 3rd 2014 until all claims have been made)
ZeroGox will be giving away 10 mBTC to the first 10 users (9 left!) who start live trading. See https://zerogox.com/giveaway for details and winners (if shared).


http://www.zerogox.com/sites/zerogox.com/files/imagecache/screenshot/screenshot.png

[empoweoqwj]

What trading strategies does it use please?

[infinitybo]

The screen is confusing my eye balls anyways it looks great !

[Amph]

What trading strategies does it use please?

buy cheap sell high i suppose 

[empoweoqwj]

What trading strategies does it use please?

buy cheap sell high i suppose 

That's a goal, not an actual algorithm you can code up

[caktux]

The main strategy is the balancer which you can now fully simulate, so you can try it out without risking anything (quite fun actually). You get stats and graphs for both live and simulation logs on ZeroGox or separate raw logs using just goxtool and the strategy. It's also just a great interface for normal trading using the built-in dialogs. You can tweak the code while it's running inside your container and pretty much customize it however you want, but performance is limited so crazy algorithms won't work unless they're just as efficient. Make sure to read the GitHub page to learn about goxtool and the included strategies, then try it locally and/or on ZeroGox.

[empoweoqwj]

The main strategy is the balancer which you can now fully simulate, so you can try it out without risking anything (quite fun actually). You get stats and graphs for both live and simulation logs on ZeroGox or separate raw logs using just goxtool and the strategy. It's also just a great interface for normal trading using the built-in dialogs. You can tweak the code while it's running inside your container and pretty much customize it however you want, but performance is limited so crazy algorithms won't work unless they're just as efficient. Make sure to read the GitHub page to learn about goxtool and the included strategies, then try it locally and/or on ZeroGox.

Sorry, still lost me. "Balancer" is not a trading strategy you can look up on investopedia. Are you using EMAs? Something else?

[caktux]

Sorry, still lost me. "Balancer" is not a trading strategy you can look up on investopedia. Are you using EMAs? Something else?

They call it "rebalancing": http://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rebalancing.asp

[empoweoqwj]

Sorry, still lost me. "Balancer" is not a trading strategy you can look up on investopedia. Are you using EMAs? Something else?

They call it "rebalancing": http://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rebalancing.asp

OK thanks. I'll read up on it at investopedia and also read more at goxtool.

[caktux]

The exact strategy is called "Constant-weighting asset allocation" in http://www.investopedia.com/articles/04/031704.asp and is defined as a "Constant ratio plan" here : http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/constant-ratio-plan.asp.

[empoweoqwj]

The exact strategy is called "Constant-weighting asset allocation" in http://www.investopedia.com/articles/04/031704.asp and is defined as a "Constant ratio plan" here : http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/constant-ratio-plan.asp.

Fascinating stuff, all new to me. Problem is I understand EMA and some other technicals very well, but not "Constant-weighting asset allocation"

Guess I need to "play" to learn

[empoweoqwj]

Documentation says (very succinctly) this:

"Balancer

Portfolio rebalancing bot that will buy and sell to maintain a constant asset allocation ratio of exactly 50/50 = fiat/BTC."

Can someone explain in simplish terms why this is seen as a "good" strategy? Under what market conditions does it perform well? Anyone been using it the last few months?

[empoweoqwj]

OK, just thinking out loud ...

In a bull market, its going to perform relatively badly because you should be invested in btc
In a bear market, its going to perform relatively badly because you should be invested in $

Volatile market?

Or I suspect I am missing the point completely of what this does .........

Anyway, I can't try it for a further 5 days because my mtGox account was shut down for 7 days because one of their stupid security cock-ups, so any reply in that time much appreciated.

[caktux]

You no longer need a MtGox account to try it, check the simulation.log file if you run it locally or the Simulation tab in your Stats page on ZeroGox.

[empoweoqwj]

You no longer need a MtGox account to try it, check the simulation.log file if you run it locally or the Simulation tab in your Stats page on ZeroGox.

OK great, thanks!!

[yuppie]

Anyone have success with this?

[empoweoqwj]

Anyone have success with this?

That's what I was wondering. But I guess its what the simulation tab is for

[caktux]

This is totally biased but I'm having success with my service, making a few percents per week in profit, enough to cover server costs even with a few trial accounts running. At worst I'll keep updating it for myself, but I'd prefer to see a small community grow out of this since it's still an open source project before anything else. ZeroGox will still have a few advantages over a local goxtool installation, like graphs, reports and the new IRC bot (say "hi" to ZeroGox on freenode, he could be at your command).

Let me know how your simulations work out!

[U1TRA_L0RD]

What is this bot used for? What does it do?

[empoweoqwj]

This is totally biased but I'm having success with my service, making a few percents per week in profit, enough to cover server costs even with a few trial accounts running. At worst I'll keep updating it for myself, but I'd prefer to see a small community grow out of this since it's still an open source project before anything else. ZeroGox will still have a few advantages over a local goxtool installation, like graphs, reports and the new IRC bot (say "hi" to ZeroGox on freenode, he could be at your command).

Let me know how your simulations work out!

Sorry, I got sidetracked over the new year. Will give it a bash this week for sure and report back.