[ANN] MarginBot - A Bitfinex Margin Lending Management Bot

[SebastianJu]

I'm having issues setting up my crontabs. I've tried what the dashboard has suggested and the method my host recommends, but still not running. Can you provide any advice on how they should be coded?

If you don't manage to set it up on your hosting then there are free cron job websites on the internet. They simply request the url(s) you specify in the timeframes you specify. Works like normal cron jobs.

I'm not sure if this would mean any privacy issues since they know your url.

Only a headsup.

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[chadwickx16]

Thanks! After fiddling with it this morning, I discovered that I am getting an error in the database.php file.

Code:

Cannot instantiate non-existent class:  mysqli 

[LMGTFY]

Thanks! After fiddling with it this morning, I discovered that I am getting an error in the database.php file.

Code:

Cannot instantiate non-existent class:  mysqli 

I'm not anywhere near a development box to test this, so it's possible this is a red herring, but...

There's a compile-time flag for mysqli - PHP needs to be compiled with the flag set. It's also version-dependent. My first assumption would be that the version of PHP you're running against doesn't have mysqli enabled (if you're running this on a hosted server your host's sys admin may be able to solve this for you. If you're running it on your own server it'll be very much OS-specific, but I might be able to help).

[chadwickx16]

Thanks! After fiddling with it this morning, I discovered that I am getting an error in the database.php file.

Code:

Cannot instantiate non-existent class:  mysqli 

I'm not anywhere near a development box to test this, so it's possible this is a red herring, but...

There's a compile-time flag for mysqli - PHP needs to be compiled with the flag set. It's also version-dependent. My first assumption would be that the version of PHP you're running against doesn't have mysqli enabled (if you're running this on a hosted server your host's sys admin may be able to solve this for you. If you're running it on your own server it'll be very much OS-specific, but I might be able to help).

Thanks, I was with a host that didn't support mysqli. I ended up putting it on Pi LAMP server, all is working fine. With the exception of the Swap rates.... 

[HowardF]

Just a quick update for everyone:

If you are having issues with MarginBot updating your daily returns, its because of change bitfinex made to their API a while ago.  Just change the following and it should start working again:

/inc/ExchangeAPIs/bitfinex.php
LINE 148:
if($l['description'] == 'Swap Payment on wallet deposit'){

change to:
if(strtolower($l['description']) == strtolower('Swap Payment on wallet deposit') || strtolower($l['description'])==strtolower('Margin Funding Payment on wallet Deposit') ){

Should start updating your daily returns again.

[striker7334 2.0]

Interesting Project, glad to see its still an active thread and still alive. I'll try it out and send a donation your way if I end up using it! 

[jonte]

I'm getting a 500 server error when I try to install it. Hmm

Edit: Nevermind, I didn't have cURL installed hahahaha! I've set the bot up and it looks good so far. Only issue in when I try to load the "View Overall Returns" page it never loads for me. I'll look into it later.

[junglist.massive]

any chance to make it work on poloniex?

[superresistant]

 
I am new to Margin Lending Bots, are the users satisfied of MarginBot or is there a better/well-known alternative ?

EDIT After some research I only found those alternatives :
cascadebot: A simple (but effective) lending bot for Bitfinex
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=867103
[ANN] BitfinexLendingBot - A bot for automated lending at Bitfinex
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=938362.0
BFX Swapmaster - BitFinex lending automation
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1207664.0

But it either looks scammy or dead.

[PesiiHUN]

I am new to Margin Lending Bots, are the users satisfied of MarginBot or is there a better/well-known alternative ?

EDIT After some research I only found those alternatives :
cascadebot: A simple (but effective) lending bot for Bitfinex
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=867103
[ANN] BitfinexLendingBot - A bot for automated lending at Bitfinex
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=938362.0
BFX Swapmaster - BitFinex lending automation
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1207664.0

But it either looks scammy or dead.

do you use any of them and btw this margin bot is do the same as autorenew option at bitfinex?

[SebastianJu]

I am new to Margin Lending Bots, are the users satisfied of MarginBot or is there a better/well-known alternative ?

EDIT After some research I only found those alternatives :
cascadebot: A simple (but effective) lending bot for Bitfinex
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=867103
[ANN] BitfinexLendingBot - A bot for automated lending at Bitfinex
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=938362.0
BFX Swapmaster - BitFinex lending automation
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1207664.0

But it either looks scammy or dead.

do you use any of them and btw this margin bot is do the same as autorenew option at bitfinex?

It's not the same as autorenew. With autorenew you might wait a long time until your order gets taken. But margin bot sets your offers so that they are always at places where they will be taken fast and where they will bring the most profit most probably. Try it, it's a nice tool.

[Jope]

Hi all, just want to say that it's awesome that this thread it still alive and a big THANK YOU to HowardF and deponzit for your efforts.
After only just learning about margin funding last week I got this up and running in a day. After some cron issues on asmallorange, it's running fantastically for my purposes. 

I actually couldn't get the crons to run on the asmallorange cron tool, and sadly they expressly do not offer support for cron jobs.  If anyone is familliar with A Small Orange and how to properly syntax a cron job there I'd love to hear more.  Currently I'm using CronBlaster as EasyCron won't run 2 cron jobs with their free account.

Thanks again!

[hexital]

Another thanks to the developers! I'm running this on a Ubuntu virtual machine running apache2 and php5. Took a bit of messing around to get it to work but now it's running smoothly.

Anyone interested in a tutorial for setting this up?

[DebitMe]

Another thanks to the developers! I'm running this on a Ubuntu virtual machine running apache2 and php5. Took a bit of messing around to get it to work but now it's running smoothly.

Anyone interested in a tutorial for setting this up?

a tutorial would have definitely been helpful. I messed around with it for a while and finally gave up. 

[crazyivan]

Does this still work? I see the last update is from 2014, is the bot still operational?

[chadwickx16]

Does this still work? I see the last update is from 2014, is the bot still operational?

Yeah, it great. Using it now. Compiled mine in November.

[CB_project]

Bot still work?

[Barnabe]

What kind of return could I expect from it ?
Is it really worth to use it compared to bitfinex platform only ?

[InceptionCoin]

What kind of return could I expect from it ?
Is it really worth to use it compared to bitfinex platform only ?

I don't know how about BitFinex, but i'm using self-written bot for Poloniex and it is 1.5-5x more profitable. But on poloniex loan rate can change between 0.03% and 0.25%, so automatic system is much more critical.

[Antek]

Hi there,

I just want to say thank you to HowardF for this nice piece of software. I am running the bot for several days now and it works fine.

@HowardF: Do you plan to get back to the development of MarginBot, for example to add more features?

Kind regards from Germany
Andreas