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Configure the bot
Freqtrade has many configurable features and possibilities. By default, these settings are configured via the configuration file (see below).
The Freqtrade configuration file
The bot uses a set of configuration parameters during its operation that all together conform the bot configuration. It normally reads its configuration from a file (Freqtrade configuration file).
Per default, the bot loads the configuration from the config.json
file, located in the current working directory.
You can specify a different configuration file used by the bot with the -c/--config
command line option.
In some advanced use cases, multiple configuration files can be specified and used by the bot or the bot can read its configuration parameters from the process standard input stream.
If you used the Quick start method for installing
the bot, the installation script should have already created the default configuration file (config.json
) for you.
If default configuration file is not created we recommend you to copy and use the config.json.example
as a template
for your bot configuration.
The Freqtrade configuration file is to be written in the JSON format.
Additionally to the standard JSON syntax, you may use one-line // ...
and multi-line /* ... */
comments in your configuration files and trailing commas in the lists of parameters.
Do not worry if you are not familiar with JSON format -- simply open the configuration file with an editor of your choice, make some changes to the parameters you need, save your changes and, finally, restart the bot or, if it was previously stopped, run it again with the changes you made to the configuration. The bot validates syntax of the configuration file at startup and will warn you if you made any errors editing it, pointing out problematic lines.
Configuration parameters
The table below will list all configuration parameters available.
Freqtrade can also load many options via command line (CLI) arguments (check out the commands --help
output for details).
The prevelance for all Options is as follows:
- CLI arguments override any other option
- Configuration files are used in sequence (last file wins), and override Strategy configurations.
- Strategy configurations are only used if they are not set via configuration or via command line arguments. These options are market with Strategy Override in the below table.
Mandatory parameters are marked as Required, which means that they are required to be set in one of the possible ways.
Command | Default | Description |
---|---|---|
max_open_trades |
3 | Required. Number of trades open your bot will have. If -1 then it is ignored (i.e. potentially unlimited open trades) |
stake_currency |
BTC | Required. Crypto-currency used for trading. |
stake_amount |
0.05 | Required. Amount of crypto-currency your bot will use for each trade. Per default, the bot will use (0.05 BTC x 3) = 0.15 BTC in total will be always engaged. Set it to "unlimited" to allow the bot to use all available balance. |
amount_reserve_percent |
0.05 | Reserve some amount in min pair stake amount. Default is 5%. The bot will reserve amount_reserve_percent + stop-loss value when calculating min pair stake amount in order to avoid possible trade refusals. |
ticker_interval |
[1m, 5m, 15m, 30m, 1h, 1d, ...] | The ticker interval to use (1min, 5 min, 15 min, 30 min, 1 hour or 1 day). Default is 5 minutes. Strategy Override. |
fiat_display_currency |
USD | Required. Fiat currency used to show your profits. More information below. |
dry_run |
true | Required. Define if the bot must be in Dry-run or production mode. |
dry_run_wallet |
999.9 | Overrides the default amount of 999.9 stake currency units in the wallet used by the bot running in the Dry Run mode if you need it for any reason. |
process_only_new_candles |
false | If set to true indicators are processed only once a new candle arrives. If false each loop populates the indicators, this will mean the same candle is processed many times creating system load but can be useful of your strategy depends on tick data not only candle. Strategy Override. |
minimal_roi |
See below | Set the threshold in percent the bot will use to sell a trade. More information below. Strategy Override. |
stoploss |
-0.10 | Value of the stoploss in percent used by the bot. More information below. More details in the stoploss documentation. Strategy Override. |
trailing_stop |
false | Enables trailing stop-loss (based on stoploss in either configuration or strategy file). More details in the stoploss documentation. Strategy Override. |
trailing_stop_positive |
0 | Changes stop-loss once profit has been reached. More details in the stoploss documentation. Strategy Override. |
trailing_stop_positive_offset |
0 | Offset on when to apply trailing_stop_positive . Percentage value which should be positive. More details in the stoploss documentation. Strategy Override. |
trailing_only_offset_is_reached |
false | Only apply trailing stoploss when the offset is reached. stoploss documentation. Strategy Override. |
unfilledtimeout.buy |
10 | Required. How long (in minutes) the bot will wait for an unfilled buy order to complete, after which the order will be cancelled. |
unfilledtimeout.sell |
10 | Required. How long (in minutes) the bot will wait for an unfilled sell order to complete, after which the order will be cancelled. |
bid_strategy.ask_last_balance |
0.0 | Required. Set the bidding price. More information below. |
bid_strategy.use_order_book |
false | Allows buying of pair using the rates in Order Book Bids. |
bid_strategy.order_book_top |
0 | Bot will use the top N rate in Order Book Bids. I.e. a value of 2 will allow the bot to pick the 2nd bid rate in Order Book Bids. |
bid_strategy. check_depth_of_market.enabled |
false | Does not buy if the % difference of buy orders and sell orders is met in Order Book. |
bid_strategy. check_depth_of_market.bids_to_ask_delta |
0 | The % difference of buy orders and sell orders found in Order Book. A value lesser than 1 means sell orders is greater, while value greater than 1 means buy orders is higher. |
ask_strategy.use_order_book |
false | Allows selling of open traded pair using the rates in Order Book Asks. |
ask_strategy.order_book_min |
0 | Bot will scan from the top min to max Order Book Asks searching for a profitable rate. |
ask_strategy.order_book_max |
0 | Bot will scan from the top min to max Order Book Asks searching for a profitable rate. |
ask_strategy.use_sell_signal |
true | Use sell signals produced by the strategy in addition to the minimal_roi . Strategy Override. |
ask_strategy.sell_profit_only |
false | Wait until the bot makes a positive profit before taking a sell decision. Strategy Override. |
ask_strategy.ignore_roi_if_buy_signal |
false | Do not sell if the buy signal is still active. This setting takes preference over minimal_roi and use_sell_signal . Strategy Override. |
order_types |
None | Configure order-types depending on the action ("buy" , "sell" , "stoploss" , "stoploss_on_exchange" ). More information below. Strategy Override. |
order_time_in_force |
None | Configure time in force for buy and sell orders. More information below. Strategy Override. |
exchange.name |
Required. Name of the exchange class to use. List below. | |
exchange.sandbox |
false | Use the 'sandbox' version of the exchange, where the exchange provides a sandbox for risk-free integration. See here in more details. |
exchange.key |
'' | API key to use for the exchange. Only required when you are in production mode. Keep it in secrete, do not disclose publicly. |
exchange.secret |
'' | API secret to use for the exchange. Only required when you are in production mode. Keep it in secrete, do not disclose publicly. |
exchange.password |
'' | API password to use for the exchange. Only required when you are in production mode and for exchanges that use password for API requests. Keep it in secrete, do not disclose publicly. |
exchange.pair_whitelist |
[] | List of pairs to use by the bot for trading and to check for potential trades during backtesting. Not used by VolumePairList (see below). |
exchange.pair_blacklist |
[] | List of pairs the bot must absolutely avoid for trading and backtesting (see below). |
exchange.ccxt_config |
None | Additional CCXT parameters passed to the regular ccxt instance. Parameters may differ from exchange to exchange and are documented in the ccxt documentation |
exchange.ccxt_async_config |
None | Additional CCXT parameters passed to the async ccxt instance. Parameters may differ from exchange to exchange and are documented in the ccxt documentation |
exchange.markets_refresh_interval |
60 | The interval in minutes in which markets are reloaded. |
edge |
false | Please refer to edge configuration document for detailed explanation. |
experimental.block_bad_exchanges |
true | Block exchanges known to not work with freqtrade. Leave on default unless you want to test if that exchange works now. |
pairlist.method |
StaticPairList | Use static or dynamic volume-based pairlist. More information below. |
pairlist.config |
None | Additional configuration for dynamic pairlists. More information below. |
telegram.enabled |
true | Required. Enable or not the usage of Telegram. |
telegram.token |
token | Your Telegram bot token. Only required if telegram.enabled is true . Keep it in secrete, do not disclose publicly. |
telegram.chat_id |
chat_id | Your personal Telegram account id. Only required if telegram.enabled is true . Keep it in secrete, do not disclose publicly. |
webhook.enabled |
false | Enable usage of Webhook notifications |
webhook.url |
false | URL for the webhook. Only required if webhook.enabled is true . See the webhook documentation for more details. |
webhook.webhookbuy |
false | Payload to send on buy. Only required if webhook.enabled is true . See the webhook documentationV for more details. |
webhook.webhooksell |
false | Payload to send on sell. Only required if webhook.enabled is true . See the webhook documentationV for more details. |
webhook.webhookstatus |
false | Payload to send on status calls. Only required if webhook.enabled is true . See the webhook documentationV for more details. |
db_url |
sqlite:///tradesv3.sqlite |
Declares database URL to use. NOTE: This defaults to sqlite:// if dry_run is True . |
initial_state |
running | Defines the initial application state. More information below. |
forcebuy_enable |
false | Enables the RPC Commands to force a buy. More information below. |
strategy |
DefaultStrategy | Defines Strategy class to use. |
strategy_path |
null | Adds an additional strategy lookup path (must be a directory). |
internals.process_throttle_secs |
5 | Required. Set the process throttle. Value in second. |
internals.heartbeat_interval |
60 | Print heartbeat message every X seconds. Set to 0 to disable heartbeat messages. |
internals.sd_notify |
false | Enables use of the sd_notify protocol to tell systemd service manager about changes in the bot state and issue keep-alive pings. See here for more details. |
logfile |
Specify Logfile. Uses a rolling strategy of 10 files, with 1Mb per file. | |
user_data_dir |
cwd()/user_data | Directory containing user data. Defaults to ./user_data/ . |
Parameters in the strategy
The following parameters can be set in either configuration file or strategy. Values set in the configuration file always overwrite values set in the strategy.
ticker_interval
minimal_roi
stoploss
trailing_stop
trailing_stop_positive
trailing_stop_positive_offset
process_only_new_candles
order_types
order_time_in_force
use_sell_signal
(ask_strategy)sell_profit_only
(ask_strategy)ignore_roi_if_buy_signal
(ask_strategy)
Understand stake_amount
The stake_amount
configuration parameter is an amount of crypto-currency your bot will use for each trade.
The minimal value is 0.0005. If there is not enough crypto-currency in
the account an exception is generated.
To allow the bot to trade all the available stake_currency
in your account set
"stake_amount" : "unlimited",
In this case a trade amount is calclulated as:
currency_balance / (max_open_trades - current_open_trades)
Understand minimal_roi
The minimal_roi
configuration parameter is a JSON object where the key is a duration
in minutes and the value is the minimum ROI in percent.
See the example below:
"minimal_roi": {
"40": 0.0, # Sell after 40 minutes if the profit is not negative
"30": 0.01, # Sell after 30 minutes if there is at least 1% profit
"20": 0.02, # Sell after 20 minutes if there is at least 2% profit
"0": 0.04 # Sell immediately if there is at least 4% profit
},
Most of the strategy files already include the optimal minimal_roi
value.
This parameter can be set in either Strategy or Configuration file. If you use it in the configuration file, it will override the
minimal_roi
value from the strategy file.
If it is not set in either Strategy or Configuration, a default of 1000% {"0": 10}
is used, and minimal roi is disabled unless your trade generates 1000% profit.
Understand stoploss
Go to the stoploss documentation for more details.
Understand trailing stoploss
Go to the trailing stoploss Documentation for details on trailing stoploss.
Understand initial_state
The initial_state
configuration parameter is an optional field that defines the initial application state.
Possible values are running
or stopped
. (default=running
)
If the value is stopped
the bot has to be started with /start
first.
Understand forcebuy_enable
The forcebuy_enable
configuration parameter enables the usage of forcebuy commands via Telegram.
This is disabled for security reasons by default, and will show a warning message on startup if enabled.
For example, you can send /forcebuy ETH/BTC
Telegram command when this feature if enabled to the bot,
who then buys the pair and holds it until a regular sell-signal (ROI, stoploss, /forcesell) appears.
This can be dangerous with some strategies, so use with care.
See the telegram documentation for details on usage.
Understand process_throttle_secs
The process_throttle_secs
configuration parameter is an optional field that defines in seconds how long the bot should wait
before asking the strategy if we should buy or a sell an asset. After each wait period, the strategy is asked again for
every opened trade wether or not we should sell, and for all the remaining pairs (either the dynamic list of pairs or
the static list of pairs) if we should buy.
Understand ask_last_balance
The ask_last_balance
configuration parameter sets the bidding price. Value 0.0
will use ask
price, 1.0
will
use the last
price and values between those interpolate between ask and last
price. Using ask
price will guarantee quick success in bid, but bot will also
end up paying more then would probably have been necessary.
Understand order_types
The order_types
configuration parameter maps actions (buy
, sell
, stoploss
) to order-types (market
, limit
, ...) as well as configures stoploss to be on the exchange and defines stoploss on exchange update interval in seconds.
This allows to buy using limit orders, sell using
limit-orders, and create stoplosses using using market orders. It also allows to set the
stoploss "on exchange" which means stoploss order would be placed immediately once
the buy order is fulfilled.
If stoploss_on_exchange
and trailing_stop
are both set, then the bot will use stoploss_on_exchange_interval
to check and update the stoploss on exchange periodically.
order_types
can be set in the configuration file or in the strategy.
order_types
set in the configuration file overwrites values set in the strategy as a whole, so you need to configure the whole order_types
dictionary in one place.
If this is configured, the following 4 values (buy
, sell
, stoploss
and
stoploss_on_exchange
) need to be present, otherwise the bot will fail to start.
emergencysell
is an optional value, which defaults to market
and is used when creating stoploss on exchange orders fails.
The below is the default which is used if this is not configured in either strategy or configuration file.
Syntax for Strategy:
order_types = {
"buy": "limit",
"sell": "limit",
"emergencysell": "market",
"stoploss": "market",
"stoploss_on_exchange": False,
"stoploss_on_exchange_interval": 60
}
Configuration:
"order_types": {
"buy": "limit",
"sell": "limit",
"emergencysell": "market",
"stoploss": "market",
"stoploss_on_exchange": false,
"stoploss_on_exchange_interval": 60
}
!!! Note
Not all exchanges support "market" orders.
The following message will be shown if your exchange does not support market orders:
"Exchange <yourexchange> does not support market orders."
!!! Note Stoploss on exchange interval is not mandatory. Do not change its value if you are unsure of what you are doing. For more information about how stoploss works please refer to the stoploss documentation.
!!! Note
If stoploss_on_exchange
is enabled and the stoploss is cancelled manually on the exchange, then the bot will create a new order.
!!! Warning "Warning: stoploss_on_exchange failures"
If stoploss on exchange creation fails for some reason, then an "emergency sell" is initiated. By default, this will sell the asset using a market order. The order-type for the emergency-sell can be changed by setting the emergencysell
value in the order_types
dictionary - however this is not advised.
Understand order_time_in_force
The order_time_in_force
configuration parameter defines the policy by which the order
is executed on the exchange. Three commonly used time in force are:
GTC (Good Till Canceled):
This is most of the time the default time in force. It means the order will remain on exchange till it is canceled by user. It can be fully or partially fulfilled. If partially fulfilled, the remaining will stay on the exchange till cancelled.
FOK (Full Or Kill):
It means if the order is not executed immediately AND fully then it is canceled by the exchange.
IOC (Immediate Or Canceled):
It is the same as FOK (above) except it can be partially fulfilled. The remaining part is automatically cancelled by the exchange.
The order_time_in_force
parameter contains a dict with buy and sell time in force policy values.
This can be set in the configuration file or in the strategy.
Values set in the configuration file overwrites values set in the strategy.
The possible values are: gtc
(default), fok
or ioc
.
"order_time_in_force": {
"buy": "gtc",
"sell": "gtc"
},
!!! Warning This is an ongoing work. For now it is supported only for binance and only for buy orders. Please don't change the default value unless you know what you are doing.
Exchange configuration
Freqtrade is based on CCXT library that supports over 100 cryptocurrency exchange markets and trading APIs. The complete up-to-date list can be found in the CCXT repo homepage. However, the bot was tested with only Bittrex and Binance.
The bot was tested with the following exchanges:
Feel free to test other exchanges and submit your PR to improve the bot.
Sample exchange configuration
A exchange configuration for "binance" would look as follows:
"exchange": {
"name": "binance",
"key": "your_exchange_key",
"secret": "your_exchange_secret",
"ccxt_config": {"enableRateLimit": true},
"ccxt_async_config": {
"enableRateLimit": true,
"rateLimit": 200
},
This configuration enables binance, as well as rate limiting to avoid bans from the exchange.
"rateLimit": 200
defines a wait-event of 0.2s between each call. This can also be completely disabled by setting "enableRateLimit"
to false.
!!! Note
Optimal settings for rate limiting depend on the exchange and the size of the whitelist, so an ideal parameter will vary on many other settings.
We try to provide sensible defaults per exchange where possible, if you encounter bans please make sure that "enableRateLimit"
is enabled and increase the "rateLimit"
parameter step by step.
Advanced Freqtrade Exchange configuration
Advanced options can be configured using the _ft_has_params
setting, which will override Defaults and exchange-specific behaviours.
Available options are listed in the exchange-class as _ft_has_default
.
For example, to test the order type FOK
with Kraken, and modify candle_limit to 200 (so you only get 200 candles per call):
"exchange": {
"name": "kraken",
"_ft_has_params": {
"order_time_in_force": ["gtc", "fok"],
"ohlcv_candle_limit": 200
}
!!! Warning Please make sure to fully understand the impacts of these settings before modifying them.
Random notes for other exchanges
- The Ocean (ccxt id: 'theocean') exchange uses Web3 functionality and requires web3 package to be installed:
$ pip3 install web3
What values can be used for fiat_display_currency?
The fiat_display_currency
configuration parameter sets the base currency to use for the
conversion from coin to fiat in the bot Telegram reports.
The valid values are:
"AUD", "BRL", "CAD", "CHF", "CLP", "CNY", "CZK", "DKK", "EUR", "GBP", "HKD", "HUF", "IDR", "ILS", "INR", "JPY", "KRW", "MXN", "MYR", "NOK", "NZD", "PHP", "PKR", "PLN", "RUB", "SEK", "SGD", "THB", "TRY", "TWD", "ZAR", "USD"
In addition to fiat currencies, a range of cryto currencies are supported.
The valid values are:
"BTC", "ETH", "XRP", "LTC", "BCH", "USDT"
Switch to Dry-run mode
We recommend starting the bot in the Dry-run mode to see how your bot will behave and what is the performance of your strategy. In the Dry-run mode the bot does not engage your money. It only runs a live simulation without creating trades on the exchange.
- Edit your
config.json
configuration file. - Switch
dry-run
totrue
and specifydb_url
for a persistence database.
"dry_run": true,
"db_url": "sqlite:///tradesv3.dryrun.sqlite",
- Remove your Exchange API key and secrete (change them by empty values or fake credentials):
"exchange": {
"name": "bittrex",
"key": "key",
"secret": "secret",
...
}
Once you will be happy with your bot performance running in the Dry-run mode, you can switch it to production mode.
Dynamic Pairlists
Dynamic pairlists select pairs for you based on the logic configured.
The bot runs against all pairs (with that stake) on the exchange, and a number of assets
(number_assets
) is selected based on the selected criteria.
By default, the StaticPairList
method is used.
The Pairlist method is configured as pair_whitelist
parameter under the exchange
section of the configuration.
Available Pairlist methods:
StaticPairList
- It uses configuration from
exchange.pair_whitelist
andexchange.pair_blacklist
.
- It uses configuration from
VolumePairList
- It selects
number_assets
top pairs based onsort_key
, which can be one ofaskVolume
,bidVolume
andquoteVolume
, defaults toquoteVolume
. - There is a possibility to filter low-value coins that would not allow setting a stop loss
(set
precision_filter
parameter totrue
for this). VolumePairList
does not considerpair_whitelist
, but builds this automatically based the pairlist configuration.- Pairs in
pair_blacklist
are not considered for VolumePairList, even if all other filters would match.
- It selects
Example:
"exchange": {
"pair_whitelist": [],
"pair_blacklist": ["BNB/BTC"]
},
"pairlist": {
"method": "VolumePairList",
"config": {
"number_assets": 20,
"sort_key": "quoteVolume",
"precision_filter": false
}
},
Switch to production mode
In production mode, the bot will engage your money. Be careful, since a wrong strategy can lose all your money. Be aware of what you are doing when you run it in production mode.
To switch your bot in production mode
Edit your config.json
file.
Switch dry-run to false and don't forget to adapt your database URL if set:
"dry_run": false,
Insert your Exchange API key (change them by fake api keys):
"exchange": {
"name": "bittrex",
"key": "af8ddd35195e9dc500b9a6f799f6f5c93d89193b",
"secret": "08a9dc6db3d7b53e1acebd9275677f4b0a04f1a5",
...
}
!!! Note If you have an exchange API key yet, see our tutorial.
Using proxy with FreqTrade
To use a proxy with freqtrade, add the kwarg "aiohttp_trust_env"=true
to the "ccxt_async_kwargs"
dict in the exchange section of the configuration.
An example for this can be found in config_full.json.example
"ccxt_async_config": {
"aiohttp_trust_env": true
}
Then, export your proxy settings using the variables "HTTP_PROXY"
and "HTTPS_PROXY"
set to the appropriate values
export HTTP_PROXY="http://addr:port"
export HTTPS_PROXY="http://addr:port"
freqtrade
Embedding Strategies
FreqTrade provides you with with an easy way to embed the strategy into your configuration file. This is done by utilizing BASE64 encoding and providing this string at the strategy configuration field, in your chosen config file.
Encoding a string as BASE64
This is a quick example, how to generate the BASE64 string in python
from base64 import urlsafe_b64encode
with open(file, 'r') as f:
content = f.read()
content = urlsafe_b64encode(content.encode('utf-8'))
The variable 'content', will contain the strategy file in a BASE64 encoded form. Which can now be set in your configurations file as following
"strategy": "NameOfStrategy:BASE64String"
Please ensure that 'NameOfStrategy' is identical to the strategy name!
Next step
Now you have configured your config.json, the next step is to start your bot.