MACD
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This page describes how margin trading on Bitmex works with the strategy. The triggers for trades are slightly different than in the same strategy for regular trading.
Expected behavior for margin trading
Gunbot will open one position, either long or short, and close this position when the target is reached. When the stop is hit before profitably closing a trade, Gunbot will place a stop order at loss. After closing a position, Gunbot will again look to open a new long or short position. Gunbot will not add to existing open positions.
Please don't manually add to or reduce positions opened by Gunbot, unless you stop running Gunbot on this trading pair until you've closed this position.
A long position is opened when MACD crosses up the signal line.
A short position is opened when MACD crosses down the signal line.
A position is closed when the desired ROE is reached.
A position is closed at loss when STOP_BUY or STOP_SELL is reached.
Following settings options are available for MACD and can be set in the strategy configurator of the GUI or the strategies section of the config.js file.
Margin settings control settings like leverage and the target for ROE. These parameters are relevant when using MACD as buy and/or sell method.
This sets the target for closing a position.
ROE is the Return On Equity for a position, the percentage profit and loss on your invested margin. This value is calculated in a similar way to how Bitmex calculates it, it does include leverage and does not include fees.
Examples: Long position, 1x leverage. When price moves 1% above the average entry price, 1% ROE is reached.
Long position, 100x leverage (or cross leverage). When price moves 1% above the average entry price, 100% ROE is reached.
Short position, 20x leverage When price moves 1% below the average entry price, 20% ROE is reached.
Values: numerical – represent a percentage.
Default value: 1
Parameter name in config.js: ROE
Sets the leverage for opening any position. Setting 0 places the order with cross margin.
Values: numerical
Default value: 0
Parameter name in config.js: LEVERAGE
Places a market stop order for a long position, at the same time as the position is opened.
When set to 1 and a long order is opened at a price of 100, a stop market order will be placed at 99.
Values: numerical - represents a percentage.
Default value: 0
Parameter name in config.js: STOP_BUY
Places a market stop order for a short position, at the same time as the position is opened.
When set to 1 and a short order is opened at a price of 100, a stop market order will be placed at 101.
Values: numerical - represents a percentage.
Default value: 0
Parameter name in config.js: STOP_SELL
Use this to enable tssl-style trailing for ROE.
Values: true or false
Default value: false
Parameter name in config.js: ROE_TRAILING
This sets the range for ROE trailing.
Setting a range of 5% at a ROE target of 1 would set an initial range between 0.95 and 1.05.
As long as ROE keeps increasing, the range moves along with ROE. As soon as ROE start decreasing, the lower range gets frozen. A close order is placed when ROE crosses the lower limit.
Values: numerical – represent a percentage of ROE.
Default value: 1
Parameter name in config.js: ROE_LIMIT
When set to true, limit orders will placed at a configurable rate beyond the best bid/ask price to get ahead of the order book.
Values: true or false
Default value: false
Parameter name in config.js: PRE_ORDER
Sets the gap between the best bid/ask price in the orderbook and the rate at which a limit order gets placed. Long orders are placed at ask + gap. Short orders are placed at bid - gap.
It is possible to use negative values, this will increase the chance of receiving maker fees.
Example when set to 1 and a buy signal occurs at an ask price of 100: a limit order gets placed at a rate of 101. When set to -1 and a buy signal occurs at an ask price of 100: a limit order gets placed at a rate of 99.
Don't use a negative gap together with STOP_BUY and/or STOP_SELL, as these stops do not combine well with position that do not always fill. Instead use STOP_LIMIT.
Values: numerical - represents a percentage.
Default value: 0
Parameter name in config.js: PRE_ORDER_GAP
Buy settings are the primary trigger for opening long positions. These parameters control the execution of buy orders when using MACD as buy method.
Set this to false to prevent Gunbot from placing buy orders.
Values: true or false
Default value: true
Parameter name in config.js: BUY_ENABLED
"Never Buy Above". Use this to only allow buy orders below the last sell rate.
This sets the minimum percentage difference between the last sell order and the next buy. The default setting of 0 disables this option.
When set to 1, Gunbot will only place a buy order when the strategy buy criteria meet and price is at least 1% below the last sell price.
Values: numerical, represents a percentage.
Default value: 0
Parameter name in config.js: NBA
Sell settings are the primary trigger for opening short positions. These parameters control the execution of sell orders when using MACD as sell method.
Set this to false to prevent Gunbot from placing sell orders.
Values: true or false
Default value: true
Parameter name in config.js: SELL_ENABLED
Relevant indicators for trading with EMA spread.
These settings have a direct effect on trading with MACD.
This sets the candlestick period used for trading, this affects all indicators within the strategy.
Setting a short period allows you to trade on shorter trends, but be aware that these will be noisier than longer periods.
Values: numerical– represents candlestick size in minutes.
Default value: 15
Parameter name in config.js: PERIOD
The number of periods used for calculating the short-term moving average for MACD.
Values: numerical, represents a number of periods.
Default value: 5
Parameter name in config.js: MACD_SHORT
The number of periods used for calculating the long-term moving average for MACD.
Values: numerical, represents a number of periods.
Default value: 20
Parameter name in config.js: MACD_LONG
The number of periods used for calculating the MACD signal line.
Values: numerical, represents a number of periods.
Default value: 10
Parameter name in config.js: MACD_SIGNAL
DCA is not intented to be used for margin trading.
RT is not intented to be used for margin trading.
TrailMe is not intended to be used with this strategy.
The following parameters in config.js have no function for this strategy and act as placeholder.
These settings are global and apply to all pairs running this strategy. When you want a specific parameter to be different for one or more pairs, use an at the pair level.
Using the BUY_METHOD and SELL_METHOD parameters you can combine different methods for buying and selling. This strategy page assumes both BUY_METHOD and SELL_METHOD are set to MACD. Accepted values are all strategy names as listed .
Only use .