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If you have initiated a withdraw request at the Kraken crypto currency exchange around 17th of March and you still haven’t received the money you might want to contact the support. It seems that there might’ve been some problems with the bank servicing the payments at around that time, and withdraw requests made earlier or later might not be affected at all. So if you are still waiting for your money and you have made a withdraw request around that date you might want to contact the support in order to resolve the issues as some users have already reported having a problem. Below is a quote from a response from Kraken’s support regarding the issues:

We have noticed that a few of our users are waiting for withdrawals with the status “success” sent on the 17th March, even though withdrawals initiated after that has arrived. Something is definitely wrong and we are investigating this with our bank, I’m sorry for the delay, don’t worry your funds will show up in your account as soon as we have found the cause of this delay and fixed it.

Our guess is that it is a problem with the banks API, there has been problems with that in the past, and they are examining the API issues and will return to us with more information.

This issue has only affected withdrawals initiated around the 17th of March.

So far our experience with the Kraken crypto exchange has been very positive and they are really fast in servicing withdraw requests, so we are expecting that this issue will quickly be dealt with and the users that had problems with their transfers will soon get their money available in the bank accounts.

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Tradewave is a new platform that allows users to program their own cryptocurrency trading bots and have them trading automatically on crypto currency exchanges for you. Tradewave is very similar to the Cryptotrader cloud trading platform that we have reviewed already in its concept, however there are significant differences between the two. Tradewave uses Python for writing the trading bot code directly in the browser and then the bot runs in the cloud doing the trading for you, so you don’t need to worry about downtime or have to leave your computer on and connected to the Internet all of the time. The platform supports backtesting of the code you write and for now there is no live trading, this feature is supposed to be made available soon. Actually the platform is still new and still in beta, so not all features are available, but you can give it a try like we did.

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The Tradewave platform comes with a library of functions that are ready to use, so you don’t have to be a programmer to be able to write a quick trading bot, though it might help for making a more advanced automated solution. In order to be able to use this service it will help to have some basic programming knowledge and you will be ready to quickly get up to speed with using Python and the functions to program your own bot and there are some example reading bot codes already available for you to start with and modify and experiment with. Once you login you will get access to short introduction about the basic trading concepts that you need to know about technical analysis and automated trading, as well as additional details how to program your own bot. There are tree already available bots utilizing the following trading strategies utilized in bots: Moving Average Crossover, Momentum Example and Rebalancing Example.

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Once you get into the bot programming mode you will see the bot code, graphical output of the bot actions, a log of the actions as well as a form for backtesting your code against actual data. As we have already mentioned, currently you can only use the platform for backtesting against live data and that feature is available for free. The automated trading functionality is not yet available and when it becomes available it will be paid, though no information about the subscription prices for the moment. The crypto currency exchanges that are supported for the moment by the Tradewave platform are BTC-E and Bitstamp. New exchanges are apparently soon going to be added such as Kraken, Bitfinex and Atlas ATS. So we are going to be keeping an eye on the Trdewave platform development as it has the potential to become a serious alternative to other automated crypto trading solutions.

So far things are working well and the platform seems very promising, so we would recommend to give it a try if you are interested in automated trading bots and more specifically about creating your own. Note that if you want to be able to actually trade with, the Tradewave will not work for you yet, so you better check Cryptotrader for that. Both platforms however are not very suitable for people looking for an easy and automated solution for trading crypto currencies that can be just started and with minimum configuration to work automatically. Also note that writing your own automated trading bot from the scratch or even using some already available code is riskier and you better do some extensive backtesting before actually running the code with actual trades. Another bit of warning, often actual trading conditions may vary from your backtesting results so always start with small trading amounts and program safeguards.

For more information about the Tradewave automated bot crypto trading platform…

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Some really good news for people mining and trading DOGE, one of the best so far crypto currency exchanges for people based in Europe – Kraken has added DOGE to EURO trading (DGE/EUR) and DOGE/BTC though they call it DGE/XBT, along with DGE/LTC, NMC/DGE and USD/DGE. Kraken are famous for their really fast service for Depositing and Withdrawing using SEPA transfers in EU and they are really setting up a high standard to other exchanges especially if you compare them to MtGox that are the benchmark for SLOW deposits and withdraws and other various issues as we’ve seen. Of course the Kraken exchange is not that big as MtGox and since DOGE trading is really new there the volume can be low at first but in just a few days things will probably get moving quickly as more people start trading DOGE there. And while this happens you can register and get your account verified in order to lift the initial restricting limits that you have set at the exchange.

You can check out the Kraken cryptocurrency trading platform by clicking here….


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