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Do not use ticker where it's not a ticker

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@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ Now you have good Buy and Sell strategies and some historic data, you want to te
real data. This is what we call
[backtesting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backtesting).
Backtesting will use the crypto-currencies (pairs) from your config file and load ticker data from `user_data/data/<exchange>` by default.
If no data is available for the exchange / pair / ticker interval combination, backtesting will ask you to download them first using `freqtrade download-data`.
Backtesting will use the crypto-currencies (pairs) from your config file and load historical candle (OHCLV) data from `user_data/data/<exchange>` by default.
If no data is available for the exchange / pair / timeframe (ticker interval) combination, backtesting will ask you to download them first using `freqtrade download-data`.
For details on downloading, please refer to the [Data Downloading](data-download.md) section in the documentation.
The result of backtesting will confirm if your bot has better odds of making a profit than a loss.
@@ -22,19 +22,19 @@ The result of backtesting will confirm if your bot has better odds of making a p
### Run a backtesting against the currencies listed in your config file
#### With 5 min tickers (Per default)
#### With 5 min candle (OHLCV) data (per default)
```bash
freqtrade backtesting
```
#### With 1 min tickers
#### With 1 min candle (OHLCV) data
```bash
freqtrade backtesting --ticker-interval 1m
```
#### Using a different on-disk ticker-data source
#### Using a different on-disk historical candle (OHLCV) data source
Assume you downloaded the history data from the Bittrex exchange and kept it in the `user_data/data/bittrex-20180101` directory.
You can then use this data for backtesting as follows:
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ You can then load the trades to perform further analysis as shown in our [data a
To compare multiple strategies, a list of Strategies can be provided to backtesting.
This is limited to 1 ticker-interval per run, however, data is only loaded once from disk so if you have multiple
This is limited to 1 timeframe (ticker interval) value per run. However, data is only loaded once from disk so if you have multiple
strategies you'd like to compare, this will give a nice runtime boost.
All listed Strategies need to be in the same directory.