[Helpful Addition] Colored Advice about gekko HOT 9 CLOSED

Great idea, I'll look into this.

I myself am not really the use case for this, as I am mostly running Gekko on a vps and the colors don't really work through SSH (so it's going to be configurable).

What I always do is output a live running Gekko to a file (howto) and use grep to search for specific actions across all output. But this sounds like an awesome improvement.

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Probably should have mentioned this was for Windows; whoops :P

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Use the npm 'colors'. It works well via ssh.

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I think this is also a great improvement for those running Gekko from the command line. I tried to add it but for some reason it breaks something (not sure what exactly).

Seems like every time I add the colors the advice prints out fine but Gekko does not make any Real Trades. See screenshots below:

Gekko with the Colors module added:

Gekko without the colors module:

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Hmm, might be the .[color] changes the actual 'variable name'.

I didn't test this with Trading enabled. The markets in too much flux right now to allow for a 15min delay between actions.

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Yea it looks like that's what's happening. I changed all references to the strings 'BUY', 'SELL', and 'HOLD' to integer values. I only convert them to string when actually printing out to the console.

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I think a quick fix for this is to reference to your variable like (variable + "").red for example.

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Internally Gekko uses the advice string to check what to do. If you want colors in your logging it should be added either in the logging module or to the part where Gekko logs advice.

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Should be log.info('ADVICE is to', (what + "").red, meta); then

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