From 4ee35438a78fe0543609b8fb8e67cafb39509838 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 07:05:17 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Improve deprecated docs --- docs/backtesting.md | 3 +++ docs/deprecated.md | 12 +++++++++--- docs/edge.md | 2 +- 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/backtesting.md b/docs/backtesting.md index 5e7cb93dc..f74d07df1 100644 --- a/docs/backtesting.md +++ b/docs/backtesting.md @@ -69,6 +69,9 @@ freqtrade backtesting --ticker-interval 1m #### Using a different on-disk ticker-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: + ```bash freqtrade backtesting --datadir user_data/data/bittrex-20180101 ``` diff --git a/docs/deprecated.md b/docs/deprecated.md index 9fd27c3f9..3ddddc868 100644 --- a/docs/deprecated.md +++ b/docs/deprecated.md @@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ and are no longer supported. Please avoid their usage in your configuration. ### the `--refresh-pairs-cached` command line option -`--refresh-pairs-cached` in the context of backtesting, hyperopt and edge allowes to refresh candle data for backtesting. -Since this leads to much confusion, and slows down backtesting (while not beeing part of backtesting) this has been singled out +`--refresh-pairs-cached` in the context of backtesting, hyperopt and edge allows to refresh candle data for backtesting. +Since this leads to much confusion, and slows down backtesting (while not being part of backtesting) this has been singled out as a seperate freqtrade subcommand `freqtrade download-data`. -This command was deprecated in `2019.7-dev` and will be removed after the next release. +This command line option was deprecated in `2019.7-dev` and will be removed after the next release. ## Removed features @@ -18,3 +18,9 @@ This command was deprecated in `2019.7-dev` and will be removed after the next r This command line option was deprecated in 2018 and removed freqtrade 2019.6-dev (develop branch) and in freqtrade 2019.7 (master branch). + +### the `--live` command line option + +`--live` in the context of backtesting allowed to download the latest tick data for backtesting. +Did only download the latest 500 candles, so was ineffective in getting good backtest data. +Removed in `2019-7-dev` (develop branch) and in freqtrade 2019-8 (master branch) diff --git a/docs/edge.md b/docs/edge.md index 60cdfd830..d91522770 100644 --- a/docs/edge.md +++ b/docs/edge.md @@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ An example of its output: ### Update cached pairs with the latest data -Edge requires historic data the same way than backtesting does. +Edge requires historic data the same way as backtesting does. Please refer to the [download section](backtesting.md#Getting-data-for-backtesting-and-hyperopt) of the documentation for details. ### Precising stoploss range