From 3e0edc7ee2b88bcab7234fb261a61c67f93fb79f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2019 10:28:55 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update backtesting section about correct data used --- docs/backtesting.md | 11 +++++------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/backtesting.md b/docs/backtesting.md index 3da76c0ce..45d5f486f 100644 --- a/docs/backtesting.md +++ b/docs/backtesting.md @@ -43,12 +43,11 @@ 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 (pair) from your config file -and load static tickers located in -[/freqtrade/tests/testdata](https://github.com/freqtrade/freqtrade/tree/develop/freqtrade/tests/testdata). -If the 5 min and 1 min ticker for the crypto-currencies to test is not -already in the `testdata` directory, backtesting will download them -automatically. Testdata files will not be updated until you specify it. +Backtesting will use the crypto-currencies (pairs) from your config file +and load ticker data from `user_data/data/` 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`. +For details on downloading, please refer to the [relevant section](#Getting-data-for-backtesting-and-hyperopt) in the documentation. The result of backtesting will confirm you if your bot has better odds of making a profit than a loss.