Backtest traps – ROI
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…
Why NostalgiaForInfinity shouldn’t be used for live trading
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…
What is the best strategy?
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…
Table of Contents for Freqtrade
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…