The bot uses a set of configuration parameters during its operation that all together conform the bot configuration. It normally reads its configuration from a file (Freqtrade configuration file).
In some advanced use cases, multiple configuration files can be specified and used by the bot or the bot can read its configuration parameters from the process standard input stream.
The Freqtrade configuration file is to be written in the JSON format.
Additionally to the standard JSON syntax, you may use one-line `// ...` and multi-line `/* ... */` comments in your configuration files and trailing commas in the lists of parameters.
Do not worry if you are not familiar with JSON format -- simply open the configuration file with an editor of your choice, make some changes to the parameters you need, save your changes and, finally, restart the bot or, if it was previously stopped, run it again with the changes you made to the configuration. The bot validates syntax of the configuration file at startup and will warn you if you made any errors editing it, pointing out problematic lines.
- Configuration files are used in sequence (last file wins), and override Strategy configurations.
- Strategy configurations are only used if they are not set via configuration or via command line arguments. These options are market with [Strategy Override](#parameters-in-the-strategy) in the below table.
Mandatory parameters are marked as **Required**, which means that they are required to be set in one of the possible ways.
| `stake_currency` | BTC | **Required.** Crypto-currency used for trading.
| `stake_amount` | 0.05 | **Required.** Amount of crypto-currency your bot will use for each trade. Per default, the bot will use (0.05 BTC x 3) = 0.15 BTC in total will be always engaged. Set it to `"unlimited"` to allow the bot to use all available balance.
| `amount_reserve_percent` | 0.05 | Reserve some amount in min pair stake amount. Default is 5%. The bot will reserve `amount_reserve_percent` + stop-loss value when calculating min pair stake amount in order to avoid possible trade refusals.
| `dry_run_wallet` | 999.9 | Overrides the default amount of 999.9 stake currency units in the wallet used by the bot running in the Dry Run mode if you need it for any reason.
| `process_only_new_candles` | false | If set to true indicators are processed only once a new candle arrives. If false each loop populates the indicators, this will mean the same candle is processed many times creating system load but can be useful of your strategy depends on tick data not only candle. [Strategy Override](#parameters-in-the-strategy).
| `minimal_roi` | See below | Set the threshold in percent the bot will use to sell a trade. More information below. [Strategy Override](#parameters-in-the-strategy).
| `stoploss` | -0.10 | Value of the stoploss in percent used by the bot. More information below. More details in the [stoploss documentation](stoploss.md). [Strategy Override](#parameters-in-the-strategy).
| `trailing_stop` | false | Enables trailing stop-loss (based on `stoploss` in either configuration or strategy file). More details in the [stoploss documentation](stoploss.md). [Strategy Override](#parameters-in-the-strategy).
| `trailing_stop_positive` | 0 | Changes stop-loss once profit has been reached. More details in the [stoploss documentation](stoploss.md). [Strategy Override](#parameters-in-the-strategy).
| `trailing_stop_positive_offset` | 0 | Offset on when to apply `trailing_stop_positive`. Percentage value which should be positive. More details in the [stoploss documentation](stoploss.md). [Strategy Override](#parameters-in-the-strategy).
| `trailing_only_offset_is_reached` | false | Only apply trailing stoploss when the offset is reached. [stoploss documentation](stoploss.md). [Strategy Override](#parameters-in-the-strategy).
| `unfilledtimeout.buy` | 10 | **Required.** How long (in minutes) the bot will wait for an unfilled buy order to complete, after which the order will be cancelled.
| `unfilledtimeout.sell` | 10 | **Required.** How long (in minutes) the bot will wait for an unfilled sell order to complete, after which the order will be cancelled.
| `bid_strategy.ask_last_balance` | 0.0 | **Required.** Set the bidding price. More information [below](#understand-ask_last_balance).
| `bid_strategy.use_order_book` | false | Allows buying of pair using the rates in Order Book Bids.
| `bid_strategy.order_book_top` | 0 | Bot will use the top N rate in Order Book Bids. I.e. a value of 2 will allow the bot to pick the 2nd bid rate in Order Book Bids.
| `bid_strategy. check_depth_of_market.enabled` | false | Does not buy if the % difference of buy orders and sell orders is met in Order Book.
| `bid_strategy. check_depth_of_market.bids_to_ask_delta` | 0 | The % difference of buy orders and sell orders found in Order Book. A value lesser than 1 means sell orders is greater, while value greater than 1 means buy orders is higher.
| `ask_strategy.use_order_book` | false | Allows selling of open traded pair using the rates in Order Book Asks.
| `ask_strategy.order_book_min` | 0 | Bot will scan from the top min to max Order Book Asks searching for a profitable rate.
| `ask_strategy.order_book_max` | 0 | Bot will scan from the top min to max Order Book Asks searching for a profitable rate.
| `ask_strategy.use_sell_signal` | true | Use sell signals produced by the strategy in addition to the `minimal_roi`. [Strategy Override](#parameters-in-the-strategy).
| `ask_strategy.sell_profit_only` | false | Wait until the bot makes a positive profit before taking a sell decision. [Strategy Override](#parameters-in-the-strategy).
| `ask_strategy.ignore_roi_if_buy_signal` | false | Do not sell if the buy signal is still active. This setting takes preference over `minimal_roi` and `use_sell_signal`. [Strategy Override](#parameters-in-the-strategy).
| `order_types` | None | Configure order-types depending on the action (`"buy"`, `"sell"`, `"stoploss"`, `"stoploss_on_exchange"`). [More information below](#understand-order_types). [Strategy Override](#parameters-in-the-strategy).
| `order_time_in_force` | None | Configure time in force for buy and sell orders. [More information below](#understand-order_time_in_force). [Strategy Override](#parameters-in-the-strategy).
| `exchange.sandbox` | false | Use the 'sandbox' version of the exchange, where the exchange provides a sandbox for risk-free integration. See [here](sandbox-testing.md) in more details.
| `exchange.key` | '' | API key to use for the exchange. Only required when you are in production mode. ***Keep it in secrete, do not disclose publicly.***
| `exchange.secret` | '' | API secret to use for the exchange. Only required when you are in production mode. ***Keep it in secrete, do not disclose publicly.***
| `exchange.password` | '' | API password to use for the exchange. Only required when you are in production mode and for exchanges that use password for API requests. ***Keep it in secrete, do not disclose publicly.***
| `exchange.pair_whitelist` | [] | List of pairs to use by the bot for trading and to check for potential trades during backtesting. Not used by VolumePairList (see [below](#dynamic-pairlists)).
| `exchange.ccxt_config` | None | Additional CCXT parameters passed to the regular ccxt instance. Parameters may differ from exchange to exchange and are documented in the [ccxt documentation](https://ccxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manual.html#instantiation)
| `exchange.ccxt_async_config` | None | Additional CCXT parameters passed to the async ccxt instance. Parameters may differ from exchange to exchange and are documented in the [ccxt documentation](https://ccxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manual.html#instantiation)
| `experimental.block_bad_exchanges` | true | Block exchanges known to not work with freqtrade. Leave on default unless you want to test if that exchange works now.
| `telegram.token` | token | Your Telegram bot token. Only required if `telegram.enabled` is `true`. ***Keep it in secrete, do not disclose publicly.***
| `telegram.chat_id` | chat_id | Your personal Telegram account id. Only required if `telegram.enabled` is `true`. ***Keep it in secrete, do not disclose publicly.***
| `webhook.enabled` | false | Enable usage of Webhook notifications
| `webhook.url` | false | URL for the webhook. Only required if `webhook.enabled` is `true`. See the [webhook documentation](webhook-config.md) for more details.
| `webhook.webhookbuy` | false | Payload to send on buy. Only required if `webhook.enabled` is `true`. See the [webhook documentationV](webhook-config.md) for more details.
| `webhook.webhooksell` | false | Payload to send on sell. Only required if `webhook.enabled` is `true`. See the [webhook documentationV](webhook-config.md) for more details.
| `webhook.webhookstatus` | false | Payload to send on status calls. Only required if `webhook.enabled` is `true`. See the [webhook documentationV](webhook-config.md) for more details.
| `db_url` | `sqlite:///tradesv3.sqlite`| Declares database URL to use. NOTE: This defaults to `sqlite://` if `dry_run` is `True`.
| `initial_state` | running | Defines the initial application state. More information below.
| `forcebuy_enable` | false | Enables the RPC Commands to force a buy. More information below.
| `internals.sd_notify` | false | Enables use of the sd_notify protocol to tell systemd service manager about changes in the bot state and issue keep-alive pings. See [here](installation.md#7-optional-configure-freqtrade-as-a-systemd-service) for more details.
If it is not set in either Strategy or Configuration, a default of 1000% `{"0": 10}` is used, and minimal roi is disabled unless your trade generates 1000% profit.
The `order_types` configuration parameter maps actions (`buy`, `sell`, `stoploss`) to order-types (`market`, `limit`, ...) as well as configures stoploss to be on the exchange and defines stoploss on exchange update interval in seconds.
If `stoploss_on_exchange` and `trailing_stop` are both set, then the bot will use `stoploss_on_exchange_interval` to check and update the stoploss on exchange periodically.
`order_types` can be set in the configuration file or in the strategy.
`order_types` set in the configuration file overwrites values set in the strategy as a whole, so you need to configure the whole `order_types` dictionary in one place.
If this is configured, the following 4 values (`buy`, `sell`, `stoploss` and
`stoploss_on_exchange`) need to be present, otherwise the bot will fail to start.
If stoploss on exchange creation fails for some reason, then an "emergency sell" is initiated. By default, this will sell the asset using a market order. The order-type for the emergency-sell can be changed by setting the `emergencysell` value in the `order_types` dictionary - however this is not advised.
We try to provide sensible defaults per exchange where possible, if you encounter bans please make sure that `"enableRateLimit"` is enabled and increase the `"rateLimit"` parameter step by step.
To use a proxy with freqtrade, add the kwarg `"aiohttp_trust_env"=true` to the `"ccxt_async_kwargs"` dict in the exchange section of the configuration.