nikhilsaraf
commented
3 years ago this seems like a much broader "exit the market" type of command. I don't anticipate building this if we can achieve the same result with the following:
- https://github.com/stellar/kelp/issues/572 - which will delete offers once the bot gets the ^C signal
- add a script to "kill all bots" which in turn would trigger the delete all offers operations from (1) above before the bot exits cleanly.
would this work for you @antb123?
Desired Behavior
Ability to quit and kill existing orders from the console and refresh (nice to have)
I want to ... Be able to quit and kill all outstanding orders very quickly (less than 3 seconds)
Currently control c kills the console and leaves outstanding orders on the dex from my understanding. I would like a console command to quit and kill all outstanding dex orders. This is protection from market events or a bad configuration It could be q or kk or something like this:
Second the current -- delete function leaves other pairs live on the market - (e.g. if you have several bots and configs)
Other console commands that would be nice are r - "refresh" - this would wake the sleeping state and refresh the order book.
Impact
The desired behaviour will allow me to ...
Save money if there is a market event or a fat finger error (actually a bad config file).
Alternatives
currently you can use the kelp --strategy delete command :
./kelp trade --botConf trader.cfg --strategy delete
However this takes too long and it does not kill orders that are outside of the defined pair you are trading. For example say you have 3 bots trading using the same trading account but with different source accounts. If you delete it only acts on the one pair.
If XLM is having a market event this could take too much time to react.