There are several possible reasons why the difference occurs. Some of them are Lookahead and/or recursive loop issue They are both two separate issues but with one common cause, which is because you get the whole data in backtest. While…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…