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# Freqtrade FAQ
## Beginner Tips & Tricks
* When you work with your strategy & hyperopt file you should use a proper code editor like vscode or Pycharm. A good code editor will provide syntax highlighting as well as line numbers, making it easy to find syntax errors (most likely, pointed out by Freqtrade during startup).
## Freqtrade common issues
### The bot does not start
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### I have waited 5 minutes, why hasn't the bot made any trades yet?!
Depending on the buy strategy, the amount of whitelisted coins, the
* Depending on the buy strategy, the amount of whitelisted coins, the
situation of the market etc, it can take up to hours to find good entry
position for a trade. Be patient!
* Or it may because of a configuration error? Best check the logs, it's usually telling you if the bot is simply not getting buy signals (only heartbeat messages), or if there is something wrong (errors / exceptions in the log).
### I have made 12 trades already, why is my total profit negative?!
I understand your disappointment but unfortunately 12 trades is just
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have to run it for 10.000 or more. But it will take an eternity to
compute.
We recommend you to run it at least 10.000 epochs:
Since hyperopt uses Bayesian search, running for too many epochs may not produce greater results.
It's therefore recommended to run between 500-1000 epochs over and over until you hit at least 10.000 epocs in total (or are satisfied with the result). You can best judge by looking at the results - if the bot keeps discovering better strategies, it's best to keep on going.
```bash
freqtrade hyperopt -e 10000
freqtrade hyperopt -e 1000
```
or if you want intermediate result to see
```bash
for i in {1..100}; do freqtrade hyperopt -e 100; done
for i in {1..100}; do freqtrade hyperopt -e 1000; done
```
### Why it is so long to run hyperopt?
### Why does it take a long time to run hyperopt?
Finding a great Hyperopt results takes time.
* Discovering a great strategy with Hyperopt takes time. Study www.freqtrade.io, the Freqtrade Documentation page, join the Freqtrade [Slack community](https://join.slack.com/t/highfrequencybot/shared_invite/enQtNjU5ODcwNjI1MDU3LTU1MTgxMjkzNmYxNWE1MDEzYzQ3YmU4N2MwZjUyNjJjODRkMDVkNjg4YTAyZGYzYzlhOTZiMTE4ZjQ4YzM0OGE) - or the Freqtrade [discord community](https://discord.gg/X89cVG). While you patiently wait for the most advanced, free crypto bot in the world, to hand you a possible golden strategy specially designed just for you.
If you wonder why it takes a while to find great hyperopt results
* If you wonder why it can take from 20 minutes to days to do 1000 epocs here are some answers:
This answer was written during the under the release 0.15.1, when we had:
This answer was written during the release 0.15.1, when we had:
- 8 triggers
- 9 guards: let's say we evaluate even 10 values from each
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but it will give the idea. With only these triggers and guards there is
already 8\*10^9\*10 evaluations. A roughly total of 80 billion evals.
Did you run 100 000 evals? Congrats, you've done roughly 1 / 100 000 th
of the search space.
of the search space, assuming that the bot never tests the same parameters more than once.
* The time it takes to run 1000 hyperopt epocs depends on things like: The available cpu, harddisk, ram, timeframe, timerange, indicator settings, indicator count, amount of coins that hyperopt test strategies on and the resulting trade count - which can be 650 trades in a year or 10.0000 trades depending if the strategy aims for big profits by trading rarely or for many low profit trades.
Example: 4% profit 650 times vs 0,3% profit a trade 10.000 times in a year. If we assume you set the --timerange to 365 days.
Example:
`freqtrade --config config.json --strategy SampleStrategy --hyperopt SampleHyperopt -e 1000 --timerange 20190601-20200601`
## Edge module