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# Freqtrade FAQ
## Beginner Tips & Tricks
#1 When you work with your strategy & hyperopt file you should use a real programmer software like Pycharm. If you by accident moved some code and freqtrade says error and you cant find the place where you moved something, or you cant find line 180 where you messed something up. Then a program like Pycharm shows you where line 180 is in your strategy file so you can fix the problem, or Pycharm shows you with some color marking that "here is a line of code that does not belong here" and you found your error in no time! This will save you many hours of problemsolving when working with the bot. Pycharm also got a usefull "Debug" feature that can tell you exactly what command on that line is making the error :)
## 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
#1 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!
#2 Or it may because you made an human error? Like writing --dry-run when you wanted to trade live?. Maybe an error with the exchange API? Or something else. You will have to do the hard work of finding out the root cause of the problem :)
### 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:
We recommend you to run between 500-1000 epochs over and over untill you hit at least 10.000 epocs in total. You can best judge by looking at the results - if the bot keep discovering more profitable strategies or not.
```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 so long time to run hyperopt?
Finding a great Hyperopt results takes time.
#1 Discovering a great strategy with Hyperopt takes time. Study www.freqtrade.io, the Freqtrade Github page, join the Freqtrade Discord - or something totally else. While you patiently wait for the most advanced, public known, 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
#2 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. If we assume that the bot never test the same strategy more than once.
#3 The time it takes to run 1000 hyperopt epocs depends on things like: The cpu, harddisk, ram, motherboard, indicator settings, indicator count, amount of coins that hyperopt test strategies on, trade count - can be 650 trades in a year or 10.0000 trades depending on if the strategy aims for a high profit rarely or a low profit many many many times. 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_mcd_1.json --strategy mcd_1 --hyperopt mcd_hyperopt_1 -e 1000 --timerange 20190601-20200601
## Edge module