Kraken: XLM: NOT creating order! Reason: Amount is too small

[g1tt]

I'm submitting a ...
[ ] bug report

Action taken (what you did)
Started off a tradebot using Kraken trading XLM.

Expected result (what you hoped would happen)
I expected the tradebot to purchase about 90 XLM

Actual result (unexpected outcome)
The tradebot does not purchase anything.
When the tradebot tries to buy the debug states -
2018-09-23 19:50:08 (INFO): Trader Received advice to go long. Buying XLM
2018-09-23 19:50:08 (WARN): NOT creating order! Reason: Amount is too small

Other information (e.g. detailed explanation, stacktraces, related issues, suggestions how to fix, links for us to have context, eg. stackoverflow, etc)
Appears to be the same as issue #1259. I posted there but it's closed so posting a new issue here!
The minimum order qty for XLM is 30 and I have sufficient EUR in the account to purchase 90.
I have tradebots working with 11 other currencies on kraken and this is the only currency I've encountered this issue with.

[g1tt]

I was asked for logs in the other post.

The tradebot log doesn't have any more info... just this -

2018-09-23 19:50:08 (DEBUG): Calculated DEMA and SMA properties for candle:
2018-09-23 19:50:08 (DEBUG): Inner EMA: 0.23837300
2018-09-23 19:50:08 (DEBUG): Outer EMA: 0.23844536
2018-09-23 19:50:08 (DEBUG): DEMA: 0.23830
2018-09-23 19:50:08 (DEBUG): SMA: 0.23848
2018-09-23 19:50:08 (DEBUG): DEMA age: 109 candles
2018-09-23 19:50:08 (INFO): Trader Received advice to go long. Buying XLM
2018-09-23 19:50:08 (WARN): NOT creating order! Reason: Amount is too small
2018-09-23 19:50:18 (DEBUG): syncing private data
2018-09-23 19:51:08 (DEBUG): Calculated DEMA and SMA properties for candle:
2018-09-23 19:51:08 (DEBUG): Inner EMA: 0.23839364
2018-09-23 19:51:08 (DEBUG): Outer EMA: 0.23844066
2018-09-23 19:51:08 (DEBUG): DEMA: 0.23835
2018-09-23 19:51:08 (DEBUG): SMA: 0.23849
2018-09-23 19:51:08 (DEBUG): DEMA age: 110 candles

Would the API log be any use?

[g1tt]

Actually, this might be it! From the API log -

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It's picked the asset up as "null".

Checking API logs for working tradebots next!

[g1tt]

No, forget that, it looks like that's the asset amount (which brings me to another issue I will log next!). So here's the full API log, if that helps. Anything else I can provide?

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12:00:00"}},"watch":{"exchange":"kraken","currency":"EUR","asset":"XLM"},"type":"market 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small"}},"advice":[{"id":"advice-1","recommendation":"long","date":"2018-09-23T18:49:00.000Z"}]},"start":"2018-09-23T18:30:16.385Z","latestUpdate":"2018-09-23T19:02:48.429Z"}},"archive":{}}

[g1tt]

The asset:null probably refers to this issue here -
#2559
...as I've modified the code so it doesn't try and set the asset value to zero when the kraken account has none of the asset, as trying to set the (const) variable throws an error!
Generally once the first buy completes the linked issue sorts itself out.

[askmike]

Thanks for the report.

The asset:null probably refers to this issue here - #2559

Please run the develop branch!

The minimum order qty for XLM is 30

Gekko thought it was 300, I think this has changed recently? I updated this to 30 (in the develop branch).

[g1tt]

I will download develop release and give it a test. Many thanks! :)

[g1tt]

BTW not sure how long 30 has been minimum order size but thought this might be useful! :)
https://support.kraken.com/hc/en-us/articles/205893708-What-is-the-minimum-order-size-

[g1tt]

This is working now - it just bought it's first XLM. Many thanks for the quick fix. Your forum avatar is well deserved! :)