Disable Defaulting to DefaultStrategy

freqtrade/configuration/cli_options.py

@@ -66,9 +66,8 @@ AVAILABLE_CLI_OPTIONS = {
     # Main options
     "strategy": Arg(
         '-s', '--strategy',
-        help='Specify strategy class name (default: `%(default)s`).',
+        help='Specify strategy class name which will be used by the bot.',
         metavar='NAME',
-        default='DefaultStrategy',
     ),
     "strategy_path": Arg(
         '--strategy-path',

freqtrade/configuration/configuration.py

@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ class Configuration:
         self._process_logging_options(config)
 
         # Set strategy if not specified in config and or if it's non default
-        if self.args.get("strategy") != constants.DEFAULT_STRATEGY or not config.get('strategy'):
+        if self.args.get("strategy") or not config.get('strategy'):
             config.update({'strategy': self.args.get("strategy")})
 
         self._args_to_config(config, argname='strategy_path',