From 5dd1f9b38a8f9a2ee5feecfe25e7828f3305a921 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2019 14:47:53 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] improve hyperopt docs --- docs/hyperopt.md | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/hyperopt.md b/docs/hyperopt.md index c4dd76009..d17464d32 100644 --- a/docs/hyperopt.md +++ b/docs/hyperopt.md @@ -16,6 +16,22 @@ an example hyperopt file located into [user_data/hyperopts/](https://github.com/ Configuring hyperopt is similar to writing your own strategy, and many tasks will be similar and a lot of code can be copied across from the strategy. +### Checklist on all tasks / possibilities in hyperopt + +Depending on the space you want to optimize, only some of the below are required. + +* fill `populate_indicators` - probably a copy from your strategy +* fill `buy_strategy_generator` - for buy signal optimization +* fill `indicator_space` - for buy signal optimzation +* fill `sell_strategy_generator` - for sell signal optimization +* fill `sell_indicator_space` - for sell signal optimzation +* fill `roi_space` - for ROI optimization +* fill `generate_roi_table` - for ROI optimization (if you need more than 3 entries) +* fill `stoploss_space` - stoploss optimization +* Optional but reccomended + * copy `populate_buy_trend` from your strategy - otherwise default-strategy will be used + * copy `populate_sell_trend` from your strategy - otherwise default-strategy will be used + ### 1. Install a Custom Hyperopt File Put your hyperopt file into the folder`user_data/hyperopts`. @@ -49,11 +65,11 @@ If you have updated the buy strategy, ie. changed the contents of Similar to the buy-signal above, sell-signals can also be optimized. Place the corresponding settings into the following methods -- Inside `sell_indicator_space()` - the parameters hyperopt shall be optimizing. -- Inside `populate_sell_trend()` - applying the parameters. +* Inside `sell_indicator_space()` - the parameters hyperopt shall be optimizing. +* Inside `populate_sell_trend()` - applying the parameters. The configuration and rules are the same than for buy signals. -To avoid naming collisions in the search-space, please prefix all sell-spaces with sell-. +To avoid naming collisions in the search-space, please prefix all sell-spaces with `sell-`. ## Solving a Mystery @@ -65,7 +81,7 @@ mystery. We will start by defining a search space: -``` +```python def indicator_space() -> List[Dimension]: """ Define your Hyperopt space for searching strategy parameters @@ -88,7 +104,7 @@ one we call `trigger` and use it to decide which buy trigger we want to use. So let's write the buy strategy using these values: -``` +``` python def populate_buy_trend(dataframe: DataFrame) -> DataFrame: conditions = [] # GUARDS AND TRENDS @@ -136,7 +152,7 @@ Because hyperopt tries a lot of combinations to find the best parameters it will We strongly recommend to use `screen` or `tmux` to prevent any connection loss. ```bash -python3 ./freqtrade/main.py --hyperopt -c config.json hyperopt -e 5000 +python3 ./freqtrade/main.py --hyperopt -c config.json hyperopt -e 5000 --spaces all ``` Use `` as the name of the custom hyperopt used. @@ -144,6 +160,11 @@ Use `` as the name of the custom hyperopt used. The `-e` flag will set how many evaluations hyperopt will do. We recommend running at least several thousand evaluations. +The `--spaces all` flag determines that all possible parameters should be optimized. Possibilities are listed below. + +!!! Warning +When switching parameters or changing configuration options, the file `user_data/hyperopt_results.pickle` should be removed. It's used to be able to continue interrupted calculations, but does not detect changes to settings or the hyperopt file. + ### Execute Hyperopt with Different Ticker-Data Source If you would like to hyperopt parameters using an alternate ticker data that @@ -186,7 +207,11 @@ Given the following result from hyperopt: Best result: 135 trades. Avg profit 0.57%. Total profit 0.03871918 BTC (0.7722Σ%). Avg duration 180.4 mins. with values: -{'adx-value': 44, 'rsi-value': 29, 'adx-enabled': False, 'rsi-enabled': True, 'trigger': 'bb_lower'} +{ 'adx-value': 44, + 'rsi-value': 29, + 'adx-enabled': False, + 'rsi-enabled': True, + 'trigger': 'bb_lower'} ``` You should understand this result like: @@ -226,9 +251,24 @@ If you are optimizing ROI, you're result will look as follows and include a ROI Best result: 135 trades. Avg profit 0.57%. Total profit 0.03871918 BTC (0.7722Σ%). Avg duration 180.4 mins. with values: -{'adx-value': 44, 'rsi-value': 29, 'adx-enabled': False, 'rsi-enabled': True, 'trigger': 'bb_lower', 'roi_t1': 40, 'roi_t2': 57, 'roi_t3': 21, 'roi_p1': 0.03634636907306948, 'roi_p2': 0.055237357937802885, 'roi_p3': 0.015163796015548354, 'stoploss': -0.37996664668703606} +{ 'adx-value': 44, + 'rsi-value': 29, + 'adx-enabled': false, + 'rsi-enabled': True, + 'trigger': 'bb_lower', + 'roi_t1': 40, + 'roi_t2': 57, + 'roi_t3': 21, + 'roi_p1': 0.03634636907306948, + 'roi_p2': 0.055237357937802885, + 'roi_p3': 0.015163796015548354, + 'stoploss': -0.37996664668703606 +} ROI table: -{0: 0.10674752302642071, 21: 0.09158372701087236, 78: 0.03634636907306948, 118: 0} +{ 0: 0.10674752302642071, + 21: 0.09158372701087236, + 78: 0.03634636907306948, + 118: 0} ``` This would translate to the following ROI table: