stable/docs/freqai-spice-rack.md
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# Using the `spice_rack`
!!! Note:
`spice_rack` indicators should not be used exclusively for entries and exits, the following example is just a demonstration of syntax. `spice_rack` indicators should **always** be used to support existing strategies).
The `spice_rack` is aimed at users who do not wish to deal with setting up `FreqAI` confgs, but instead prefer to interact with `FreqAI` similar to a `talib` indicator. In this case, the user can instead simply add two keys to their config:
```json
"freqai_spice_rack": true,
"freqai_identifier": "spicey-id",
```
Which tells `FreqAI` to set up a pre-set `FreqAI` instance automatically under the hood with preset parameters. Now the user can access a suite of custom `FreqAI` supercharged indicators inside their strategy:
```python
dataframe['dissimilarity_index'] = self.freqai.spice_rack(
'DI_values', dataframe, metadata, self)
dataframe['extrema'] = self.freqai.spice_rack(
'&s-extrema', dataframe, metadata, self)
self.freqai.close_spice_rack() # user must close the spicerack
```
Users can then use these columns, concert with all their own additional indicators added to `populate_indicators` in their entry/exit criteria and strategy callback methods the same way as any typical indicator. For example:
```python
def populate_entry_trend(self, df: DataFrame, metadata: dict) -> DataFrame:
df.loc[
(
(df['dissimilarity_index'] < 1) &
(df['extrema'] < -0.1)
),
'enter_long'] = 1
df.loc[
(
(df['dissimilarity_index'] < 1) &
(df['extrema'] > 0.1)
),
'enter_short'] = 1
return df
def populate_exit_trend(self, df: DataFrame, metadata: dict) -> DataFrame:
df.loc[
(
(df['dissimilarity_index'] < 1) &
(df['extrema'] > 0.1)
),
'exit_long'] = 1
df.loc[
(
(df['dissimilarity_index'] < 1) &
(df['extrema'] < -0.1)
),
'exit_short'] = 1
return df
```
## Available indicators
| Parameter | Description |
|------------|-------------|
| `DI_values` | **Required.** <br> The dissimilarity index of the current candle to the recent candles. More information available [here](freqai-feature-engineering.md#identifying-outliers-with-the-dissimilarity-index-di) <br> **Datatype:** Floats.
| `extrema` | **Required.** <br> A continuous prediction from FreqAI which aims to help predict if the current candle is a maxima or a minma. FreqAI aims for 1 to be a maxima and -1 to be a minima - but the values should typically hover between -0.2 and 0.2. <br> **Datatype:** Floats.