diff --git a/tests/data/test_btanalysis.py b/tests/data/test_btanalysis.py
index 44e9c1072..95f371d7f 100644
--- a/tests/data/test_btanalysis.py
+++ b/tests/data/test_btanalysis.py
@@ -122,6 +122,18 @@ def test_load_trades(default_conf, mocker):
     assert db_mock.call_count == 0
     assert bt_mock.call_count == 1
 
+    db_mock.reset_mock()
+    bt_mock.reset_mock()
+    default_conf['exportfilename'] = "testfile.json"
+    load_trades("file",
+                db_url=default_conf.get('db_url'),
+                exportfilename=default_conf.get('exportfilename'),
+                skip_trades=True
+                )
+
+    assert db_mock.call_count == 0
+    assert bt_mock.call_count == 0
+
 
 def test_combine_dataframes_with_mean(testdatadir):
     pairs = ["ETH/BTC", "ADA/BTC"]