diff --git a/config_full.json.example b/config_full.json.example
index 6593750b4..9a613c0a1 100644
--- a/config_full.json.example
+++ b/config_full.json.example
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
         "buy": "limit",
         "sell": "limit",
         "emergencysell": "market",
+        "forcesell": "market",
         "stoploss": "market",
         "stoploss_on_exchange": false,
         "stoploss_on_exchange_interval": 60
diff --git a/docs/configuration.md b/docs/configuration.md
index e84455c22..0163e1671 100644
--- a/docs/configuration.md
+++ b/docs/configuration.md
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ For example, if your strategy is using a 1h timeframe, and you only want to buy
 
 ### Understand order_types
 
-The `order_types` configuration parameter maps actions (`buy`, `sell`, `stoploss`, `emergencysell`) to order-types (`market`, `limit`, ...) as well as configures stoploss to be on the exchange and defines stoploss on exchange update interval in seconds.
+The `order_types` configuration parameter maps actions (`buy`, `sell`, `stoploss`, `emergencysell`, `forcesell`) to order-types (`market`, `limit`, ...) as well as configures stoploss to be on the exchange and defines stoploss on exchange update interval in seconds.
 
 This allows to buy using limit orders, sell using
 limit-orders, and create stoplosses using market orders. It also allows to set the
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ the buy order is fulfilled.
 If this is configured, the following 4 values (`buy`, `sell`, `stoploss` and
 `stoploss_on_exchange`) need to be present, otherwise the bot will fail to start.
 
-For information on (`emergencysell`,`stoploss_on_exchange`,`stoploss_on_exchange_interval`,`stoploss_on_exchange_limit_ratio`) please see stop loss documentation [stop loss on exchange](stoploss.md)
+For information on (`emergencysell`,`forcesell`, `stoploss_on_exchange`,`stoploss_on_exchange_interval`,`stoploss_on_exchange_limit_ratio`) please see stop loss documentation [stop loss on exchange](stoploss.md)
 
 Syntax for Strategy:
 
@@ -298,6 +298,7 @@ order_types = {
     "buy": "limit",
     "sell": "limit",
     "emergencysell": "market",
+    "forcesell": "market",
     "stoploss": "market",
     "stoploss_on_exchange": False,
     "stoploss_on_exchange_interval": 60,
@@ -312,6 +313,7 @@ Configuration:
     "buy": "limit",
     "sell": "limit",
     "emergencysell": "market",
+    "forcesell": "market",
     "stoploss": "market",
     "stoploss_on_exchange": false,
     "stoploss_on_exchange_interval": 60
diff --git a/docs/stoploss.md b/docs/stoploss.md
index 671e643b0..4a4391655 100644
--- a/docs/stoploss.md
+++ b/docs/stoploss.md
@@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ The bot cannot do these every 5 seconds (at each iteration), otherwise it would
 So this parameter will tell the bot how often it should update the stoploss order. The default value is 60 (1 minute).
 This same logic will reapply a stoploss order on the exchange should you cancel it accidentally.
 
+### forcesell
+
+`forcesell` is an optional value, which defaults to the same value as `sell` and is used when sending a `/forcesell` command from Telegram or from the Rest API.
+
 ### emergencysell
 
 `emergencysell` is an optional value, which defaults to `market` and is used when creating stop loss on exchange orders fails.
diff --git a/freqtrade/freqtradebot.py b/freqtrade/freqtradebot.py
index d546dd6d2..2f64f3dac 100644
--- a/freqtrade/freqtradebot.py
+++ b/freqtrade/freqtradebot.py
@@ -1156,6 +1156,10 @@ class FreqtradeBot(LoggingMixin):
         if sell_reason == SellType.EMERGENCY_SELL:
             # Emergency sells (default to market!)
             order_type = self.strategy.order_types.get("emergencysell", "market")
+        if sell_reason == SellType.FORCE_SELL:
+            # Force sells (default to the sell_type defined in the strategy,
+            # but we allow this value to be changed)
+            order_type = self.strategy.order_types.get("forcesell", order_type)
 
         amount = self._safe_sell_amount(trade.pair, trade.amount)
         time_in_force = self.strategy.order_time_in_force['sell']