From b27348490d3d6883701c0f9dafe9ab0885f29034 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2020 13:59:00 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add rate-limiting note for Kraken datadownload --- docs/exchanges.md | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/exchanges.md b/docs/exchanges.md index 81f017023..075329a07 100644 --- a/docs/exchanges.md +++ b/docs/exchanges.md @@ -30,6 +30,15 @@ Binance has been split into 3, and users must use the correct ccxt exchange ID f The Kraken API does only provide 720 historic candles, which is sufficient for Freqtrade dry-run and live trade modes, but is a problem for backtesting. To download data for the Kraken exchange, using `--dl-trades` is mandatory, otherwise the bot will download the same 720 candles over and over, and you'll not have enough backtest data. +Due to the heavy rate-limiting applied by Kraken, the follwoing configuration section should be used to download data: + +``` json + "ccxt_async_config": { + "enableRateLimit": true, + "rateLimit": 3100 + }, +``` + ## Bittrex ### Order types