merged with feat/short

freqtrade/configuration/PeriodicCache.py

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+
+from cachetools.ttl import TTLCache
+
+
+class PeriodicCache(TTLCache):
+    """
+    Special cache that expires at "straight" times
+    A timer with ttl of 3600 (1h) will expire at every full hour (:00).
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, maxsize, ttl, getsizeof=None):
+        def local_timer():
+            ts = datetime.now(timezone.utc).timestamp()
+            offset = (ts % ttl)
+            return ts - offset
+
+        # Init with smlight offset
+        super().__init__(maxsize=maxsize, ttl=ttl-1e-5, timer=local_timer, getsizeof=getsizeof)

freqtrade/configuration/__init__.py

@@ -4,4 +4,5 @@ from freqtrade.configuration.check_exchange import check_exchange
 from freqtrade.configuration.config_setup import setup_utils_configuration
 from freqtrade.configuration.config_validation import validate_config_consistency
 from freqtrade.configuration.configuration import Configuration
+from freqtrade.configuration.PeriodicCache import PeriodicCache
 from freqtrade.configuration.timerange import TimeRange