How to reduce memory usage on backtest/hyperopt
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…
Quick Freqtrade Tutorial for Beginners
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…
Backtest traps – trailing stoploss
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…
Backtest traps – Custom Exit
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…