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Bot keeps canceling order on Bitfinex

See original GitHub issue

It might just be some setting I am overlooking, but the bot places the order and 2 min later cancels the order and continues to loop. Eventually, Bitfinex gets unhappy and gives this error -

2017-08-09 17:56:46 Error API Error 400: <html>
<head><title>400 Request Header Or Cookie Too Large</title></head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<center><h1>400 Bad Request</h1></center>
<center>Request Header Or Cookie Too Large</center>
<hr><center>cloudflare-nginx</center>
</body>
</html>
 Requesting https://api.bitfinex.com/v1/offer/new
Caught API Error 400: <html>
<head><title>400 Request Header Or Cookie Too Large</title></head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<center><h1>400 Bad Request</h1></center>
<center>Request Header Or Cookie Too Large</center>
<hr><center>cloudflare-nginx</center>
</body>
</html>
 Requesting https://api.bitfinex.com/v1/offer/new reading from exchange API, ignoring.

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:20 (6 by maintainers)

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nielashcommented, Sep 3, 2017

Hey guys–total n00b programmer here, but I think I may have figured this out, or at least found a clue.

In modules/Bitfinex.py on line 224, I tried changing

"rate": str(lending_rate * 36500),

to:

"rate": str(round(float(lending_rate),10) * 36500),

And that seems to have solved it. I think it’s because (as the error message seems to indicate) the payload for ‘offer/new’ was too long, and rounding the rate to 10 decimal places prevents that.

I’m not sure if this is the root of the problem or if I simply treated a symptom, but I wanted to mention it here in case it’s helpful.

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rnevetcommented, Aug 11, 2017

@utdrmac fenced so your eyes aren’t offended. 😃

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