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…
The easiest way to define informative timeframe(s) is by using the decorator, as shown in the example below If you need to use data from one informative timeframe on another informative timeframe, the decorator won’t work for you in that…
There is no need to be concerned if you use a single ROI value or a ROI table with intervals that correspond to the timeframe you are using. However, if you use a ROI table with an unusual interval that…
Credit to those (who won’t be named for some reasons) who helped me writing this article Let’s first discuss a few issues with the way that the strategy performance is overinflated due to gaming backtests. Small static list used for…
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…
Breaking news, in case you don’t know, hyperopt is just backtest(s) done in parallel. Okay, now to the real stuff. When you are doing backtest/hyperopt, the candles’ data and dataframe are both store into the memory instead of your hard…
Before we start, there are several points that you will need to understand Download data First, we need to download candles’ data for the past 40 days. To do that, use this command freqtrade download-data -c ‘user_data’ –days 40 -t…
In this post, I will explain why you need to be careful when you are using trailing stoploss in your freqtrade strategy. Let’s start with these simple trailing stoploss logic (please use either one but never both) The logic is…
In this post, I will explain why you need to be careful when you are using custom_exit function on your freqtrade strategy. Let’s start with this simple custom_exit logic The logic is very simple, when the trade has at least…