How to set up Tailscale for Freqtrade
Why use Tailscale? I’m not really an expert, so I can only say what I feel about Tailscale. It’s easy to install, free up to certain number of devices (16 if I’m not wrong at this time), and remove all…
No trade = no loss
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…
Use locally-downloaded candles’ data on dry/live run
Credit to Dubok from discord server for this snippet. Important note, you have to use static pairlist for this method. You can’t use volume pairlist, unless you set automatic job that regularly download candles’ data for all pairs. This is…
Delayed entry triggers – Part 1
There are times you want to have some entry checks that rarely happen in a same candle. For example, let’s say I have these checks Is it possible for both logic to happen in the same candle? Yes, it is…
How dataframe looked like after merging informative data
Let’s assume I’m using 1m timeframe and 5m informative timeframe. Before I start, the timestamp that the exchanges gives are the open time of each candles. So if you have a candle with timestamp 00:00, that means that candle opens…
How to set stake amount
Stake amount can be seen as a simple thing to be set, but some new users have trouble when they were dry/live running their bot for the first time because they set it wrongly. Minimum stake allowed by the exchange…
Recursive formula bias
20230804: new info added at the bottom to highlight how crucial this bias can be The term “lookahead bias,” which refers to the situation when your bot is looking at future data at some point during a backtest and it…
I found a lambo strategy online!!!!!!
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.…
Trade rate on dry-run falls outside candle
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…
How to define informative timeframe(s)?
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…