Error: Response code 418 when running Gunbot on Binance means that your API key has been temporary banned. What to do now? First of all, do not remove your Api key, specially do NOT remove your Master key. Note that error 418 is not a permanent ban, it’s just a temporary ban, same as error 429 on Poloniex. Ok, how to get rid of “Error: Response code 418“? error: fetchOrderBook […]
Common Errors
Error: Response code 400 is one of the most “popular” error messages since Gunbot v7 was launched. A lot of people is getting this error on Binance. But, why? What does it mean? Unfortunately, this error can be caused by several things, so we need to try several fixes one by one untl we get rid of it. Loading config… Loading the exchange – binance error: fetchMyTrades Error: Response code […]
Error 429 on Gunbot is common, especially on Poloniex. But, what does it mean? Error 429 means that your IP has been temporary banned for doing too many requests per second. Before getting this error, you should have seen a lot of 422 errors before. What to do if you see error 429? First of all, stop the bot. Your IP is banned, so there is no point on continue […]
First of all: 422 error may be something normal in some cases. Let’s see. Error 422 means that there is a connection error, in most of the cases, because Poloniex has rejected the connection or the connection failed. As we said before, it’s something normal to get 422 errors from time to time. This error could be a real problem if you are getting it very often. Most likely it […]
A lot of people don’t understand why their Gunbot shows a message “Waiting to trade… Safety switch is on” from time to time. First of all, it’s not an error. Then what does it mean? Ok, let’s start talking about TRADES_TIMEOUT parameter. After Gunbot buys a coin, the exchange takes some time to update the trading history. Here is where TRADES_TIMEOUT comes into scene, we need to wait some time […]
If we get “Timed out while connecting to server” error when running Gunbot, the cause is clear: There is a connection problem. In order to fix it, be sure your firewall / router allows outbound connections to port 3000, 5000 and 5001. If you are running Gunbot on a VPS, contact them and ask them to allow outbound connections to those ports. Most of VPS providers work fine with Gunbot, […]
If you are running Gunbot with TradingView Addon, in some cases you can get this error message: “Self signed certificate in certificate chain” In order to fix it, set”tls” parameter to true.
In some cases, we get the message “Waiting to cash some btc” on Gunbot when it’s supposed to buy. How to fix it? 1-Be sure you have funds on your btc wallet. 2- Check if you have open orders, if so, remove them. 3- Stop the bot. Set BOT_CLEAN parameter to 0. Start the bot again. This way we will be sure you caché has been refreshed. Now set it […]