Manual setting of initial price for balanced strat about kelp HOT 4 CLOSED

After more detailed examination of the balancedLevelProvider code I think this is probably better accomplished as a new strategy. Since the balanced levels are calculated off held assets every time, a fixed start price wouldn't be considered at all after the first run. So this is more like a modification to the buysell strategy that would track SDEX prices instead of outside prices.

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yes, I think your intuition is correct here -- the reason I did not include this as an option in the strategy is that by adding the concept of initial vs. non-initial pricing means you need to maintain state.

Given that Kelp currently does not require a DB (a good thing), this raises some questions [with potential solutions]:

1. Where to save this boolean state representing whether to use the priceFeed vs. the balance-based pricing mechanism? [manage data on the account?]
2. How to ensure that the correct asset balance is read when pricing subsequent update cycles of the bot? [save a piece of data on the account that represents a virtual balance that the bot will use which will always be negative?]

With these changes I can see it being useful, but tbh, it would be much simpler to adjust your initial starting balance to match your seed price. This would keep the code simpler and avoid potential bugs both while coding and also while using the strategy -- less moving parts. For this reason, I'm in favor of leaving the strategy as-is.

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I can see Kelp having a new command that updates an account's balances for two assets to set it to a price taken from a price feed (can be an SDEX market as input too). Although I think this is also overkill compared to just setting your initial balance correctly.

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@nikhilsaraf I agree. I'll think about doing something pegged to extant SDEX price as a separate strategy.

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