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Some exchanges provide sandboxes or testbeds for risk-free testing, while running the bot against a real exchange.
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With some configuration, freqtrade (in combination with ccxt) provides access to these.
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This document is a light overview of configuring Freqtrade to be used with sandboxes.
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This document is an overview to configure Freqtrade to be used with sandboxes.
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This can be useful to developers and trader alike.
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## Exchanges known to have a sandbox / testnet
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## Configure a Sandbox account
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When testing your API connectivity, make sure to use the following URLs.
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When testing your API connectivity, make sure to use the appropriate sandbox / testnet URL.
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In general, you should follow these steps to enable an exchange's sandbox:
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- Figure out if an exchange has a sandbox (most likely by using google or the exchange's support documents)
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- Create a sandbox account (often the sandbox-account requires separate registration)
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- [Add some test assets to account](#add-test-funds)
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- Create API keys
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* Figure out if an exchange has a sandbox (most likely by using google or the exchange's support documents)
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* Create a sandbox account (often the sandbox-account requires separate registration)
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* [Add some test assets to account](#add-test-funds)
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* Create API keys
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### Add test funds
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You should make sure to have a realistic amount of funds available to your test-account, so results are representable of your real account funds.
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!!! Warning
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Test exchanges will NEVER require your real credit card or banking details!
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Test exchanges will **NEVER** require your real credit card or banking details!
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## Configure freqtrade to use a exchange's sandbox
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Freqtrade makes use of CCXT which in turn provides a list of URLs to Freqtrade.
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These include `['test']` and `['api']`.
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- `[Test]` if available will point to an Exchanges sandbox.
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- `[Api]` normally used, and resolves to live API target on the exchange.
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* `[Test]` if available will point to an Exchanges sandbox.
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* `[Api]` normally used, and resolves to live API target on the exchange.
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To make use of sandbox / test add "sandbox": true, to your config.json
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Also the following information:
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- api-key (created for the sandbox webpage)
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- api-secret (noted earlier)
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- password (the passphrase - noted earlier)
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* api-key (created for the sandbox webpage)
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* api-secret (noted earlier)
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* password (the passphrase - noted earlier)
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!!! Tip "Different data directory"
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We also recommend to set `datadir` to something identifying downloaded data as sandbox data, to avoid having sandbox data mixed with data from the real exchange.
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