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closes #7183
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@@ -514,6 +514,7 @@ You can then load the trades to perform further analysis as shown in the [data a
Since backtesting lacks some detailed information about what happens within a candle, it needs to take a few assumptions:
- Exchange [trading limits](#trading-limits-in-backtesting) are respected
- Buys happen at open-price
- All orders are filled at the requested price (no slippage, no unfilled orders)
- Exit-signal exits happen at open-price of the consecutive candle
@@ -543,7 +544,24 @@ Also, keep in mind that past results don't guarantee future success.
In addition to the above assumptions, strategy authors should carefully read the [Common Mistakes](strategy-customization.md#common-mistakes-when-developing-strategies) section, to avoid using data in backtesting which is not available in real market conditions.
### Improved backtest accuracy
### Trading limits in backtesting
Exchanges have certain trading limits, like minimum base currency, or minimum stake (quote) currency.
These limits are usually listed in the exchange documentation as "trading rules" or similar.
Backtesting (as well as live and dry-run) does honor these limits, and will ensure that a stoploss can be placed below this value - so the value will be slightly higher than what the exchange specifies.
Freqtrade has however no information about historic limits.
This can lead to situations where trading-limits are inflated by using a historic price, resulting in minimum amounts > 50$.
For example:
BTC minimum tradable amount is 0.001.
BTC trades at 22.000\$ today (0.001 BTC is related to this) - but the backtesting period includes prices as high as 50.000\$.
Today's minimum would be `0.001 * 22_000` - or 22\$.
However the limit could also be 50$ - based on `0.001 * 50_000` in some historic setting.
## Improved backtest accuracy
One big limitation of backtesting is it's inability to know how prices moved intra-candle (was high before close, or viceversa?).
So assuming you run backtesting with a 1h timeframe, there will be 4 prices for that candle (Open, High, Low, Close).