LTC trading @ BTC-e

[siergiej]

I've tried to use gakko to trade litecoins on at btc-e. I've set the exchange to 'BTCe', asset to 'LTC' in the config.normal and in config.watch sections, and when I start gekko it shows me "ADVICE is to HOLD @ 101.300 (NaN)", which is the price of of btc/usd on BTCe.

[siergiej]

Ah, I see now - Gekko does not support trading LTC at BTC-e, or any other exchange for that matter. So let me rephrase my issue:

(When) will Gekko support LTC trading?

[askmike]

This is only explained in the docs, I want to support altcoins at BTC-e ASAP but I am having trouble using the BTC-e API because it works differently when fetching historical trades (you need to supply tid instead of time). For that reason Gekko now uses bitcoincharts instead, and they don't offer trade data for altcoins.

There is a new API coming up and I'm hoping that they support asking historical data via time. However the docs are only in russian atm and it appears to be in beta.

So I can't tell you when it will be ready yet. This issue is about the same problem, I am closing this one for now and keeping that one open.

[siergiej]

Mtgox says it will start trading litecoins soon. That will undoubtedly cause a lot of volatility in all the LTC trading markets. It would be awsome to have gekko by then. No pressure, just saying :) too bad it's out of your hand.

[askmike]

Totally agreed. I wish I had more time to work on Gekko so that new functions would get added more quickly.

For everyone who is watching the issues: It is relatively easy to add a new exchange to Gekko as long as it works somewhat the same as Bitstamp or Mt. Gox (in that we can retrieve previous trades for example). This document describes how to add a new exchange to Gekko witout having to read all of Gekko's code. Maybe adding Cryptsy proves to be very little work. I will do it myself when I have time but there are a couple of Gekko TODOs on my list currently (and I have very little time).

[GoodDragon]

Btw. I found that here is alternative node.js client for BTC-e: https://npmjs.org/package/btce
and it includes possibility to tell how many latest trades you want from BTC-e.

So maybe it is possible ask them like this when Gekko starts: https://btc-e.com/api/2/btc_usd/trades/2000
and after that less number of rows?