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Installation
This page explains how to prepare your environment for running the bot.
To understand how to set up the bot please read the Bot Configuration page.
Table of Contents
Automatic Installation - Docker
Start by downloading Docker for your platform:
Once you have Docker installed, simply create the config file (e.g. config.json) and then create a Docker image for freqtrade using the Dockerfile in this repo.
1. Prepare the Bot
1.1. Clone the git repository
git clone https://github.com/gcarq/freqtrade.git
1.2. (Optional) Checkout the develop branch
git checkout develop
1.3. Go into the new directory
cd freqtrade
1.4. Copy config.json.example to config.json
cp -n config.json.example config.json
To edit the config please refer to the Bot Configuration page.
1.5. Create your database file (optional - the bot will create it if it is missing)
Production
touch tradesv3.sqlite
Dry-Run
touch tradesv3.dryrun.sqlite
2. Build the Docker image
cd freqtrade
docker build -t freqtrade .
For security reasons, your configuration file will not be included in the image, you will need to bind mount it. It is also advised to bind mount an SQLite database file (see the "5. Run a restartable docker image" section) to keep it between updates.
3. Verify the Docker image
After the build process you can verify that the image was created with:
docker images
4. Run the Docker image
You can run a one-off container that is immediately deleted upon exiting with the following command (config.json must be in the current working directory):
docker run --rm -v `pwd`/config.json:/freqtrade/config.json -it freqtrade
In this example, the database will be created inside the docker instance and will be lost when you will refresh your image.
5. Run a restartable docker image
To run a restartable instance in the background (feel free to place your configuration and database files wherever it feels comfortable on your filesystem).
5.1. Move your config file and database
mkdir ~/.freqtrade
mv config.json ~/.freqtrade
mv tradesv3.sqlite ~/.freqtrade
5.2. Run the docker image
docker run -d \
--name freqtrade \
-v ~/.freqtrade/config.json:/freqtrade/config.json \
-v ~/.freqtrade/tradesv3.sqlite:/freqtrade/tradesv3.sqlite \
freqtrade
If you are using dry_run=True it's not necessary to mount tradesv3.sqlite, but you can mount tradesv3.dryrun.sqlite if you plan to use the dry run mode with the param --dry-run-db.
6. Monitor your Docker instance
You can then use the following commands to monitor and manage your container:
docker logs freqtrade
docker logs -f freqtrade
docker restart freqtrade
docker stop freqtrade
docker start freqtrade
You do not need to rebuild the image for configuration changes, it will suffice to edit config.json and restart the container.
Custom Installation
We've included/collected install instructions for Ubuntu 16.04, MacOS, and Windows. These are guidelines and your success may vary with other distros.
Requirements
Click each one for install guide:
- Python 3.6.x, note the bot was not tested on Python >= 3.7.x
- pip
- git
- virtualenv (Recommended)
- TA-Lib
Linux - Ubuntu 16.04
1. Install Python 3.6, Git, and wget
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/python-3.6
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3.6 python3.6-venv python3.6-dev build-essential autoconf libtool pkg-config make wget git
2. Install TA-Lib
Official webpage: https://mrjbq7.github.io/ta-lib/install.html
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ta-lib/ta-lib-0.4.0-src.tar.gz
tar xvzf ta-lib-0.4.0-src.tar.gz
cd ta-lib
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install
cd ..
rm -rf ./ta-lib*
3. [Optional] Install MongoDB
Install MongoDB if you plan to optimize your strategy with Hyperopt.
sudo apt-get install mongodb-org
Complete tutorial from Digital Ocean: How to Install MongoDB on Ubuntu 16.04.
4. Install FreqTrade
Clone the git repository:
git clone https://github.com/gcarq/freqtrade.git
Optionally checkout the develop branch:
git checkout develop
5. Configure freqtrade as a systemd service
From the freqtrade repo... copy freqtrade.service to your systemd user directory (usually ~/.config/systemd/user) and update WorkingDirectory and ExecStart to match your setup.
After that you can start the daemon with:
systemctl --user start freqtrade
For this to be persistent (run when user is logged out) you'll need to enable linger for your freqtrade user.
sudo loginctl enable-linger "$USER"
MacOS
1. Install Python 3.6, git, wget and ta-lib
brew install python3 git wget ta-lib
2. [Optional] Install MongoDB
Install MongoDB if you plan to optimize your strategy with Hyperopt.
curl -O https://fastdl.mongodb.org/osx/mongodb-osx-ssl-x86_64-3.4.10.tgz
tar -zxvf mongodb-osx-ssl-x86_64-3.4.10.tgz
mkdir -p <path_freqtrade>/env/mongodb
cp -R -n mongodb-osx-x86_64-3.4.10/ <path_freqtrade>/env/mongodb
export PATH=<path_freqtrade>/env/mongodb/bin:$PATH
3. Install FreqTrade
Clone the git repository:
git clone https://github.com/gcarq/freqtrade.git
Optionally checkout the develop branch:
git checkout develop
Windows
We recommend that Windows users use Docker as this will work much easier and smoother (also more secure).
1. Install freqtrade
copy paste config.json to ``\path\freqtrade-develop\freqtrade`
>cd \path\freqtrade-develop
>python -m venv .env
>cd .env\Scripts
>activate.bat
>cd \path\freqtrade-develop
>pip install -r requirements.txt
>pip install -e .
>cd freqtrade
>python main.py
Thanks Owdr for the commands. Source: Issue #222
First Steps
1. Initialize the configuration
cd freqtrade
cp config.json.example config.json
To edit the config please refer to Bot Configuration.
2. Setup your Python virtual environment (virtualenv)
python3.6 -m venv .env
source .env/bin/activate
pip3.6 install --upgrade pip
pip3.6 install -r requirements.txt
pip3.6 install -e .
3. Run the Bot
If this is the first time you run the bot, ensure you are running it in Dry-run "dry_run": true, otherwise it will start to buy and sell coins.
python3.6 ./freqtrade/main.py -c config.json
Now you have an environment ready, the next step is Bot Configuration...