stable/docs/telegram-usage.md

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Telegram usage

This page explains how to command your bot with Telegram.

Pre-requisite

To control your bot with Telegram, you need first to set up a Telegram bot and add your Telegram API keys into your config file.

Telegram commands

Per default, the Telegram bot shows predefined commands. Some commands are only available by sending them to the bot. The table below list the official commands. You can ask at any moment for help with /help.

Command Default Description
/start Starts the trader
/stop Stops the trader
/status Lists all open trades
/status table List all open trades in a table format
/count Displays number of trades used and available
/profit Display a summary of your profit/loss from close trades and some stats about your performance
/forcesell <trade_id> Instantly sells the given trade (Ignoring minimum_roi).
/forcesell all Instantly sells all open trades (Ignoring minimum_roi).
/performance Show performance of each finished trade grouped by pair
/balance Show account balance per currency
/daily <n> 7 Shows profit or loss per day, over the last n days
/help Show help message
/version Show version

Telegram commands in action

Below, example of Telegram message you will receive for each command.

/start

Status: running

/stop

Stopping trader ...
Status: stopped

/status

For each open trade, the bot will send you the following message.

Trade ID: 123
Current Pair: CVC/BTC Open Since: 1 days ago
Amount: 26.64180098
Open Rate: 0.00007489
Close Rate: None
Current Rate: 0.00007489
Close Profit: None
Current Profit: 12.95%
Open Order: None

/status table

Return the status of all open trades in a table format.

   ID  Pair      Since    Profit  
----  --------  -------  --------  
  67  SC/BTC    1 d      13.33%
 123  CVC/BTC   1 h      12.95%

/count

Return the number of trades used and available.

current    max
---------  -----  
     2     10  

/profit

Return a summary of your profit/loss and performance.

ROI: Close trades
0.00485701 BTC (258.45%)
62.968 USD
ROI: All trades
0.00255280 BTC (143.43%)
33.095 EUR

Total Trade Count: 138
First Trade opened: 3 days ago
Latest Trade opened: 2 minutes ago
Avg. Duration: 2:33:45
Best Performing: PAY/BTC: 50.23%

/forcesell <trade_id>

BITTREX: Selling BTC/LTC with limit 0.01650000 (profit: ~-4.07%, -0.00008168)

/performance

Return the performance of each crypto-currency the bot has sold.

Performance:

  1. RCN/BTC 57.77%
  2. PAY/BTC 56.91%
  3. VIB/BTC 47.07%
  4. SALT/BTC 30.24%
  5. STORJ/BTC 27.24% ...

/balance

Return the balance of all crypto-currency your have on the exchange.

Currency: BTC
Available: 3.05890234
Balance: 3.05890234
Pending: 0.0

Currency: CVC
Available: 86.64180098
Balance: 86.64180098
Pending: 0.0

/daily

Per default /daily will return the 7 last days. The example below if for /daily 3:

Daily Profit over the last 3 days:

Day         Profit BTC      Profit USD  
----------  --------------  ------------  
2018-01-03  0.00224175 BTC  29,142 USD  
2018-01-02  0.00033131 BTC   4,307 USD  
2018-01-01  0.00269130 BTC  34.986 USD

/version

Version: 0.14.3

using proxy with telegram

in freqtrade/freqtrade/rpc/telegram.py replace

self._updater = Updater(token=self._config['telegram']['token'], workers=0)

with

self._updater = Updater(token=self._config['telegram']['token'], request_kwargs={'proxy_url': 'socks5://127.0.0.1:1080/'}, workers=0)