The bot ignores past signals!!!!
A common “issue” faced by new users is ignored entry or exit signals. There was no trade being opened or closed lately, but when they checked frequi, they would see entry or exit signals few candles ago. They would then…
The deadliest sin of algo trader
…is Greed. Personally, I found that greed is the main cause of failure of many strategies that attempted to survive long-term in the algo crypto trading world. I’m specifically talking about the target profit greed. Over the past 3 years…
The market is bad
That is the most-used excuse thrown by unprepared users when their bots are burning (in a bad way). Yes, the market might be bad, but your strategy is already bad in the first place. The “bad” market only expose your…
How to trade only x amount of pairs with lowest/highest Y indicator value
Warning!!!Using this snippet can introduce significant lags on your entry order placement due to the need to loop through all pairs, which means more pairs in the whitelist will result in more lags. For this example, I will only trade…
How long is the warm-up time?
There is no such thing as “warming up” time. After the bot finished starting up, it will fetch all the required data (all pairs on all timeframes) from the exchange, calculate the indicators, and check for entry and exit signals.…
Data required to avoid recursive loop issue
Below are required data multiplier to avoid recursive loop issue. For example, EMA need 3x data, which means to calculate EMA with length of 200, it needs at least 600 rows of data. Note: the list below will be updated…
More pairs, more profits!!!!
There is a belief in some users that if their pairlist contains more pairs, it would bring more profits. A simple analogy is that if you have $10,000 balance, trading 200 pairs with $50 stake each will bring more profits…
ST – Kasuari BTC
Since one of my strategies has been performing well for the past 6 months, I would release the basic template of it. Before I give the code, I have to give warning first. DON’T USE THIS STRATEGY IN THIS BASIC…
FSD – Better way of using ATR for exits
This is an improved version of this method, but it requires Freqtrade version 2024.3 or later. This method is simpler than the old one, and have no weakness. Now the atr roi and stoploss will survive any bot restart. You…
Specific hyperopt params for specific pairs
This is a very simple example of having different RSI trigger for trade entry for BTC, ETH, BNB, and the rest of the pairs.