Do I need to be good at manual trading?
In my opinion, while you don’t need to be the expert at manual trading to be able to write a good strategy, you need to at least have knowledge of how real trading works, and the best way to learn…
Trading is zero-sum game
Nowadays, the term trading somehow being perceived as easy way to get rich. Maybe it’s because so many self-proclaimed gurus are selling the dream of easy money. Just follow their courses/methods, everyone will be rich. What those gurus won’t tell…
Sharing profitable strategy?
Let’s say you have this super profitable strategy that works on every markets. You won’t want to share it to the world (either free or paid). Why? Because if everyone know your profitable logics, there will only be 2 outcomes…
Understanding process_only_new_candles
A lot of new users get confused over the process_only_new_candles config, especially on what it actually does. What it does actually very simple. When being set to true, it will make populate functions (indicators, entry and exit trends) to be…
tradable_balance_ratio issue with multiple bots
Let’s use a very simple example. You have 1000 USDT. You have 4 bots. You want them to have 250 USDT each. You set the tradable_balance_ratio to 0.25. For simplicity sake, let’s say the bots only have 1 trade slot…
Do I need to be good at programming?
At minimum, you need to have basic knowledge of python and pandas. Having good programming logic would really helps in the journey. When I started on my freqtrade journey, I didn’t know python, pandas, and linux. I studied them along…
Are you addicted to trading?
People tends to associate addictions with physical objects, like food, cigarette, alcohol, or drug. Some people would disagree if you associate addicitions with non-physical things, like games, power, or trading How can you be addicted to things that don’t put…
Hidden trap of doing backtest in batches
I will explain the trap using example. Let’s see the following chart. Assuming the strategy will only exit on profit, if you backtest on full timerange, you will get 1 trade only, and that trade is force exited. Now let’s…
Picking the right coin(s)
After you decide the approach of your strategy (read Triangle of Trading post), the next thing you must do is pick the right coin(s) to be traded. This is important because all coins aren’t behaving the same way. I will…
Triangle of Trading
There are three objectives that you need to apply to your trading strategy, which are win rate, average profit percentage, and trade count. Take a look at the image below. You need to pick at which point do you want…