The most valuable commodity I know of is information. -- Gordon Gekko
This tool is based on REST APIs, and is written the node.js dialect of javascript, which itself based on v8, Google's open source JavaScript engine.
Gekko comes with a few technical analysis (TA) methods which implement a single indicator (DEMA, MACD, RSI, and PPO). The parameters of these indicators are all configurable and changing them changes the outcome drastically. Gekko's interface allows you to add your own trading methods. Read more about that in the documentation.
Note: much of this information is outdated, and/or not relevant to reinvestment-only mode.
Gekko reinvests cloud mining income on the following platforms:
- CEX.io (Currently only BTC, planned support for NMC reinvestment.)
Gekko also has a plugin system that can do certain things whenever something happens or let Gekko communicate through more platforms. Gekko implements the following example plugins:
- Campfire: Enables Gekko to talk on Campfire and report latest market data and advice.
- IRC bot: Enables Gekko to talk on IRC and report latest market data and advice.
- Mailer: Automatically sends email when your trading method has new advice.
- Profit Simulator (paper trader): Hold a fake portfolio and simulate trades based on advice.
- Redis Beacon: Broadcast events propagating through Gekko on Redis pub/sub.
Windows user? Here is a step-by-step guide on how to get Gekko running on Windows.
Gekko runs on nodejs, once you have that installed you can either download all files in a zip or clone the repository via git:
git clone git://github.com/kuzetsa/gekko.git
cd gekko
You need to download Gekko's dependencies, which can easily be done with npm:
npm install
Read the configuring Gekko documentation for a detailed explanation.
To run the bot you just have to start Gekko:
node gekko
You can also run Gekko silently or use more complex features, for examples check out the advanced features.
If you installed the bot via git you can easily fetch the latest updates by running:
git pull
npm update
If you want to contribute or are interested in how Gekko works:
- Read about Gekko's overall architecture.
- Read on how to add a new exchange to Gekko.
- Read on how to create your own plugin.
- Implement your own trading method and share it back.
- The title is inspired by Bateman.
- This project is inspired by the GoxTradingBot Chrome plugin (though no code is taken from it).
- Original implementation of gekko was written by Mike van Rossum
- After 2014, June 25th, reinvestment-only fork maintained by Sarah White AKA kuzetsa
- Credits for the reduced-lag EMA methods go to Patrick G. Mulloy for publishing
"Smoothing Data With Less Lag" in 1994
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