So now I dove a bit into the Gekko docs and it seems fairly simple to create a strategy. This is the thing that outputs the trading advice to Gekko. The tutorials I used are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-74ZhrG0BE&t=1456s and https://gekko.wizb.it/docs/strategies/creating_a_strategy.html
My strategy looks like this (just outputting some trivial things like in the youtube demo):
Gekko can make use of strategies using all kinds of algorithms, but I don’t want that. I want to decide each day if I want to buy or sell on a specific input. For this I wrote a Web Api endpoint in C#. For my first test, like I showed you in the previous post, this just takes in an integer parameter and outputs a dummy object. I’ve changed this a bit from the previous post, and it now looks like this:
After this I fiddled around a bit and got some https/SSL errors. Now I prefer to use https in production but I did not want to get into this for this demo so I disabled https redirection in my web api. After that I ran the strategy which now looks like this:
Resulting in this excerpt from when running Gekko from the command line:
This far it’s going smoothly. The next step will be to send something meaningful to the api, and returning from the api a buy or sell command…
Stay tuned..