Support For LiteCoin (Need Direction)

[DeveloperUX]

Hey,

So I noticed BTC-e has an API now for Litecoin. I'm going to go ahead and try to implement. Just needed some direction or any resources as to the best way to go about it.

Thanks

[askmike]

The hardest thing about altcoin support on BTC-e is that Gekko needs historical data. The BTC-e api makes it hard to get historical trades. For that reason Gekko currently uses Bitcoincharts for historical data when selecting BTC-e.

You can read more about some specifics here.

[soyq]

Using Bitcoincharts also causes that Gekko can't use <15 interval ;/
But the historical data isnt here?
https://btc-e.com/api/3/trades/btc_usd

[askmike]

The docs say you can only let the API know you want the last 2000 trades, depending on your settings this probably won't be enough to calculate good EMA's. I am working on a solution of caching all trades so that you only have to wait for a while the first time.

[GoodDragon]

I noticed that cex.io exchange script already includes local db for trade data.

I actually tried create version which get history trades from Bitcoincharts and updates after that directly from BTC-E. It is not working yet but maybe there is still something usefull: GoodDragon@1d63451

Or maybe you can even give some hint for me how get this working? Of course with LTC it need waiting that there is enough data but BTC is is probably better idea get starting data from Bitcoincharts?

[askmike]

A new version of Gekko (in development, need help testing) that holds a local database of all historical data. This means we can use the BTC-e api which has full support for all markets on BTC-e (so also altcoins & fiat/fiat)! If you guys can help me test / figure it out we can have this version as soon as possible.

More info here.

[boxxa]

I have been working on my own branch of this using the LTC data. The hardest part I ran into was trying to fetch enough trade data from altcoins that are live enough. I think once more exchanges support LTC to USD, there will be more modifications possible but BTCe being the only one without having to go to a third party currency makes it complex.

[askmike]

I didn't update this issue yet but:

The stable version of Gekko already is aware of different market types like, fiat / cryptocurrency, fiat / fiat or crypto currency / crypto currency. Check out this document. The problem purely lies with bitcoincharts not providing LTC data.

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A totally new version of Gekko is in development that is able to watch all BTC-e markets, it also does CEX.io which does not have a FIAT market at all.

It is currently not stable (and because of that I don't want to implement real trading just yet), but what does is:

• Watch any market on Bitstamp, CEX.io, Mt. Gox and BTC-e.
• Store market data to disk, so you store your own history which Gekko uses to calculate starting EMA/MACD and backtest against (all data is stored in 1m candles).
• Runs EMA or MACD on top of that data, simulates trading and gives advice (needs to be verified).
• Might crash, needs proper testing.

It's located in the localDB branch!

[askmike]

this has been in gekko for quite a while!