Gekko: TAlib not enabled error

[Chad-69]

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Action taken (what you did)
I installed Talib and added a Talib indicator to my strategy (BBands) as described in https://gekko.wizb.it/docs/strategies/talib_indicators.html

Expected result (what you hoped would happen)
The strategy to execute

Actual result (unexpected outcome)
I get the error:

Gekko encountered an error and can't continue

Error:

Talib is not enabled

Meta debug info:

Gekko version: v0.6.8
Nodejs version: v9.11.2

Other information (e.g. detailed explanation, stacktraces, related issues, suggestions how to fix, links for us to have context, eg. stackoverflow, etc)

[Coriou]

Please try installing it again:

• Go to the root directory of your Gekko clone (directory with the gekko.js file)
• Run npm i talib
• In that same directory open the package.json file and in the dependencies key, make sure you do have talib

Your package.json should look something like this (I've removed most of it for readability's sake):

{
  "name": "gekko",
  "version": "0.6.8",
  "description": "A bitcoin trading bot for auto trading at various exchanges",
  "author": "Mike van Rossum <[email protected]>",
  "dependencies": {
    "talib": "^1.0.6",
    ...otherDependencies
  },
  ...otherStuff
}

If you do see the talib dependency in there, you should be able to run your strategy and not have the Talib is not enabled error.

Note: This modified the package.json file. In the documentation you'll see that it's recommended to install Talib with the --no-save flag to avoid this modification. If you want to update Gekko through git later, you'll have to first npm uninstall talib then install it again after the update.

Of course, if you're comfortable with git and using branches, you'll just manage it yourself without having to uninstall it.

[Chad-69]

Many thanks. That worked!