Check whether a market is active before trading #51

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opened 2019-03-15 22:03:11 -07:00 by scionaltera · 1 comment

scionaltera commented

2019-03-15 22:03:11 -07:00

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I ran into a situation today where BCH/USD was temporarily halted on an exchange and the bot wanted to trade it. It obviously couldn't, but kept trying and throwing exceptions for a few minutes. It would be nicer if it checked first and didn't treat it like an error.

scionaltera commented

2019-04-10 21:31:41 -07:00

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This is made more complicated because I can't find any method in XChange to ask an Exchange whether a particular market is active or not. We may just have to rely on catching the exception and reversing the first trade if it succeeded. That's not a great solution because this situation pretty much only happens in times of very high volatility and even the few milliseconds between opening a trade, realizing it needs to be reversed and reversing it could result in losses.

This is made more complicated because I can't find any method in XChange to ask an `Exchange` whether a particular market is active or not. We may just have to rely on catching the exception and reversing the first trade if it succeeded. That's not a great solution because this situation pretty much only happens in times of very high volatility and even the few milliseconds between opening a trade, realizing it needs to be reversed and reversing it could result in losses.

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