> Alright, a new bot. How are we going to call it? Please choose a name for your bot.
Choose the public name of your bot (e.x. `Freqtrade bot`)
*BotFather response:*
> Good. Now let's choose a username for your bot. It must end in `bot`. Like this, for example: TetrisBot or tetris_bot.
Choose the name id of your bot and send it to the BotFather (e.g. "`My_own_freqtrade_bot`")
*BotFather response:*
> Done! Congratulations on your new bot. You will find it at `t.me/yourbots_name_bot`. You can now add a description, about section and profile picture for your bot, see /help for a list of commands. By the way, when you've finished creating your cool bot, ping our Bot Support if you want a better username for it. Just make sure the bot is fully operational before you do this.
> Use this token to access the HTTP API: `22222222:APITOKEN`
> For a description of the Bot API, see this page: https://core.telegram.org/bots/api Father bot will return you the token (API key)
Copy the API Token (`22222222:APITOKEN` in the above example) and keep use it for the config parameter `token`.
Don't forget to start the conversation with your bot, by clicking `/START` button
You can use bots in telegram groups by just adding them to the group. You can find the group id by first adding a [RawDataBot](https://telegram.me/rawdatabot) to your group. The Group id is shown as id in the `"chat"` section, which the RawDataBot will send to you:
``` json
"chat":{
"id":-1001332619709
}
```
For the Freqtrade configuration, you can then use the the full value (including `-` if it's there) as string:
| `/status table` | List all open trades in a table format. Pending buy orders are marked with an asterisk (*) Pending sell orders are marked with a double asterisk (**)
| `/trades [limit]` | List all recently closed trades in a table format.
| `/delete <trade_id>` | Delete a specific trade from the Database. Tries to close open orders. Requires manual handling of this trade on the exchange.
| `/count` | Displays number of trades used and available
| `/profit` | Display a summary of your profit/loss from close trades and some stats about your performance
| `/forcesell <trade_id>` | Instantly sells the given trade (Ignoring `minimum_roi`).
| `/forcesell all` | Instantly sells all open trades (Ignoring `minimum_roi`).
| `/forcebuy <pair> [rate]` | Instantly buys the given pair. Rate is optional. (`forcebuy_enable` must be set to True)
| `/performance` | Show performance of each finished trade grouped by pair
| `/balance` | Show account balance per currency
| `/daily <n>` | Shows profit or loss per day, over the last n days (n defaults to 7)
Prevents the bot from opening new trades by temporarily setting "max_open_trades" to 0. Open trades will be handled via their regular rules (ROI / Sell-signal, stoploss, ...).
After this, give the bot time to close off open trades (can be checked via `/status table`).
Once all positions are sold, run `/stop` to completely stop the bot.
