The usual mistake new users make is use a big volume pairlist. “More pairs, more trades” they said. Sure, you might get more trades. But more trades isn’t guaranteed more profit. I would advice against trading low volume pairs. The…
Just because a strategy works good on a specific exchange, specific market (spot or futures), specific stake currency and specific config (especially pairlist), doesn’t mean it will automatically perform better on another exchange and/or another market with the same pairs.…
A common question asked by new users, especially those who are new to trading world as well According to the dataframe, I got an entry signal at 00.00 UTC. But why the bot only execute the entry at 00.05 UTC?…
I have to start by stating the usual disclaimer, that all things written in this post is my personal opinion. I’m not saying they are the only truth and other opinions are wrong. I’ll try to explain the reasons, but…
One wrong idea that new users have is that they assume that as leverage increase, the liquidation percentage move linearly, which is not the case. This next table is what they assume the behavior would be Leverage Liquidation % before…
One important issue of using volume pairlist on dry/live is your backtest might be inaccurate if you are using small pairlist for backtest. It’s acceptable to use a small pairlist if you’re using the same list for dry/live trading. However,…
This is a remark that often thrown around when a trader complained about their losing trade(s). But this sentence isn’t a joke. In a sense, it’s true and important. New users often put too much focus on having the best…
There are numerous freqtrade strategies available online if you search. Some of them would also put the results of the strategies’ backtests. Some of them might offer huge profits that might tempt you to start using them immediately. But please don’t.…
When you are dry-running your bot, some of you may have ran across this problem. For instance, your long trade’s entry rate was 10, even though the candle’s high rate at the time was only 9. Alternatively, your long trade’s exit…
This is typically the first question asked by many new users who have never engaged in algo trading (or even manual trading). Unfortunately, no single strategy can be regarded to be the best in an objective way. Each strategy has…