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Some minor cleanups to trades download methods and docs

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@@ -59,12 +59,12 @@ This will download ticker data for all the currency pairs you defined in `pairs.
### Trades (tick) data
By default, download-data downloads Candles (OHLCV) data. Some exchanges also provide historic trade-data via their API.
By default, `download-data` subcommand downloads Candles (OHLCV) data. Some exchanges also provide historic trade-data via their API.
This data can be useful if you need many different timeframes, since it is only downloaded once, and then resampled locally to the desired timeframes.
Since this data is large by default, the files use gzip by default. They are stored in your data-directory with the naming convention of `<pair>-trades.json.gz` (`ETH_BTC_trades.json.gz`). Incremental mode is supported, so downloading the data once per week with `--days 8` will create an incremental data-repository.
Since this data is large by default, the files use gzip by default. They are stored in your data-directory with the naming convention of `<pair>-trades.json.gz` (`ETH_BTC-trades.json.gz`). Incremental mode is also supported, as for historic OHLCV data, so downloading the data once per week with `--days 8` will create an incremental data-repository.
To use this mode, simply add `--dl-trades` to your call. This will swap the download-method to trades, and resamples the data locally.
To use this mode, simply add `--dl-trades` to your call. This will swap the download method to download trades, and resamples the data locally.
Example call:
@@ -76,11 +76,11 @@ freqtrade download-data --exchange binance --pairs XRP/ETH ETH/BTC --days 20 --d
While this method uses async calls, it will be slow, since it requires the result of the previous call to generate the next request to the exchange.
!!! Warning
This datatype is not available during trading. It probably will never be since all exchanges tested don't provide this data in real time, but with a delay of a few 100 candles.
The historic trades are not available during Freqtrade dry-run and live trade modes because all exchanges tested provide this data with a delay of few 100 candles, so it's not suitable for real-time trading.
### Historic Kraken data
The Kraken API does only provide 720 historic candles, which is sufficient for regular trading operations, but is a problem for backtesting.
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.
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