stable/docs/telegram-usage.md

Telegram usage

Setup your Telegram bot

Below we explain how to create your Telegram Bot, and how to get your Telegram user id.

1. Create your Telegram bot

Start a chat with the Telegram BotFather

Send the message /newbot.

BotFather response:

Alright, a new bot. How are we going to call it? Please choose a name for your bot.

Choose the public name of your bot (e.x. Freqtrade bot)

BotFather response:

Good. Now let's choose a username for your bot. It must end in bot. Like this, for example: TetrisBot or tetris_bot.

Choose the name id of your bot and send it to the BotFather (e.g. "My_own_freqtrade_bot")

BotFather response:

Done! Congratulations on your new bot. You will find it at t.me/yourbots_name_bot. You can now add a description, about section and profile picture for your bot, see /help for a list of commands. By the way, when you've finished creating your cool bot, ping our Bot Support if you want a better username for it. Just make sure the bot is fully operational before you do this.

Use this token to access the HTTP API: 22222222:APITOKEN

For a description of the Bot API, see this page: https://core.telegram.org/bots/api Father bot will return you the token (API key)

Copy the API Token (22222222:APITOKEN in the above example) and keep use it for the config parameter token.

Don't forget to start the conversation with your bot, by clicking /START button

2. Telegram user_id

Get your user id

Talk to the userinfobot

Get your "Id", you will use it for the config parameter chat_id.

Use Group id

You can use bots in telegram groups by just adding them to the group. You can find the group id by first adding a RawDataBot to your group. The Group id is shown as id in the "chat" section, which the RawDataBot will send to you:

"chat":{
   "id":-1001332619709
}

For the Freqtrade configuration, you can then use the the full value (including - if it's there) as string:

   "chat_id": "-1001332619709"

!!! Warning "Using telegram groups" When using telegram groups, you're giving every member of the telegram group access to your freqtrade bot and to all commands possible via telegram. Please make sure that you can trust everyone in the telegram group to avoid unpleasent surprises.

Control telegram noise

Freqtrade provides means to control the verbosity of your telegram bot. Each setting has the following possible values:

• on - Messages will be sent, and user will be notified.
• silent - Message will be sent, Notification will be without sound / vibration.
• off - Skip sending a message-type all together.

Example configuration showing the different settings:

"telegram": {
    "enabled": true,
    "token": "your_telegram_token",
    "chat_id": "your_telegram_chat_id",
    "notification_settings": {
        "status": "silent",
        "warning": "on",
        "startup": "off",
        "buy": "silent",
        "sell": {
            "roi": "silent",
            "emergency_sell": "on",
            "force_sell": "on",
            "sell_signal": "silent",
            "trailing_stop_loss": "on",
            "stop_loss": "on",
            "stoploss_on_exchange": "on",
            "custom_sell": "silent"
        },
        "buy_cancel": "silent",
        "sell_cancel": "on",
        "buy_fill": "off",
        "sell_fill": "off",
        "protection_trigger": "off",
        "protection_trigger_global": "on"
    },
    "reload": true,
    "balance_dust_level": 0.01
},

buy notifications are sent when the order is placed, while buy_fill notifications are sent when the order is filled on the exchange. sell notifications are sent when the order is placed, while sell_fill notifications are sent when the order is filled on the exchange. *_fill notifications are off by default and must be explicitly enabled. protection_trigger notifications are sent when a protection triggers and protection_trigger_global notifications trigger when global protections are triggered.

balance_dust_level will define what the /balance command takes as "dust" - Currencies with a balance below this will be shown. reload allows you to disable reload-buttons on selected messages.

Create a custom keyboard (command shortcut buttons)

Telegram allows us to create a custom keyboard with buttons for commands. The default custom keyboard looks like this.

[
    ["/daily", "/profit", "/balance"], # row 1, 3 commands
    ["/status", "/status table", "/performance"], # row 2, 3 commands
    ["/count", "/start", "/stop", "/help"] # row 3, 4 commands
]

Usage

You can create your own keyboard in config.json:

"telegram": {
      "enabled": true,
      "token": "your_telegram_token",
      "chat_id": "your_telegram_chat_id",
      "keyboard": [   
          ["/daily", "/stats", "/balance", "/profit"],
          ["/status table", "/performance"],
          ["/reload_config", "/count", "/logs"]
      ]
   },

!!! Note "Supported Commands" Only the following commands are allowed. Command arguments are not supported!

`/start`, `/stop`, `/status`, `/status table`, `/trades`, `/profit`, `/performance`, `/daily`, `/stats`, `/count`, `/locks`, `/balance`, `/stopbuy`, `/reload_config`, `/show_config`, `/logs`, `/whitelist`, `/blacklist`, `/edge`, `/help`, `/version`

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	Description
/start	Starts the trader
/stop	Stops the trader
/stopbuy	Stops the trader from opening new trades. Gracefully closes open trades according to their rules.
/reload_config	Reloads the configuration file
/show_config	Shows part of the current configuration with relevant settings to operation
/logs [limit]	Show last log messages.
/status	Lists all open trades
/status <trade_id>	Lists one or more specific trade. Separate multiple <trade_id> with a blank space.
/status table	List all open trades in a table format. Pending buy orders are marked with an asterisk (*) Pending sell orders are marked with a double asterisk (**)
/trades [limit]	List all recently closed trades in a table format.
/delete <trade_id>	Delete a specific trade from the Database. Tries to close open orders. Requires manual handling of this trade on the exchange.
/count	Displays number of trades used and available
/locks	Show currently locked pairs.
/unlock <pair or lock_id>	Remove the lock for this pair (or for this lock id).
/profit [<n>]	Display a summary of your profit/loss from close trades and some stats about your performance, over the last n days (all trades by default)
/forcesell <trade_id>	Instantly sells the given trade (Ignoring minimum_roi).
/forcesell all	Instantly sells all open trades (Ignoring minimum_roi).
/forcebuy <pair> [rate]	Instantly buys the given pair. Rate is optional and only applies to limit orders. (forcebuy_enable must be set to True)
/performance	Show performance of each finished trade grouped by pair
/balance	Show account balance per currency
/daily <n>	Shows profit or loss per day, over the last n days (n defaults to 7)
/weekly <n>	Shows profit or loss per week, over the last n weeks (n defaults to 8)
/monthly <n>	Shows profit or loss per month, over the last n months (n defaults to 6)
/stats	Shows Wins / losses by Sell reason as well as Avg. holding durations for buys and sells
/whitelist	Show the current whitelist
/blacklist [pair]	Show the current blacklist, or adds a pair to the blacklist.
/edge	Show validated pairs by Edge if it is enabled.
/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

/stopbuy

status: Setting max_open_trades to 0. Run /reload_config to reset.

Prevents the bot from opening new trades by temporarily setting "max_open_trades" to 0. Open trades will be handled via their regular rules (ROI / Sell-signal, stoploss, ...).

After this, give the bot time to close off open trades (can be checked via /status table). Once all positions are sold, run /stop to completely stop the bot.

/reload_config resets "max_open_trades" to the value set in the configuration and resets this command.

!!! Warning The stop-buy signal is ONLY active while the bot is running, and is not persisted anyway, so restarting the bot will cause this to reset.

/status

For each open trade, the bot will send you the following message. Enter Tag is configurable via Strategy.

Trade ID: 123 (since 1 days ago)
Current Pair: CVC/BTC
Direction: Long Leverage: 1.0 Amount: 26.64180098
Enter Tag: Awesome Long Signal Open Rate: 0.00007489
Current Rate: 0.00007489
Current Profit: 12.95%
Stoploss: 0.00007389 (-0.02%)

/status table

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

   ID  Pair      Since    Profit
----  --------  -------  --------
  67  SC/BTC L    1 d      13.33%
 123  CVC/BTC S   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 (2.2%) (15.2 Σ%)
∙ 62.968 USD
ROI: All trades
∙ 0.00255280 BTC (1.5%) (6.43 Σ%)
∙ 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%

The relative profit of 1.2% is the average profit per trade.
The relative profit of 15.2 Σ% is be based on the starting capital - so in this case, the starting capital was 0.00485701 * 1.152 = 0.00738 BTC. Starting capital is either taken from the available_capital setting, or calculated by using current wallet size - profits.

/forcesell <trade_id>

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

/forcebuy [rate]

BITTREX: Buying ETH/BTC with limit 0.03400000 (1.000000 ETH, 225.290 USD)

Omitting the pair will open a query asking for the pair to buy (based on the current whitelist).

Note that for this to work, forcebuy_enable needs to be set to true.

More details

/performance

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

Performance:

1. RCN/BTC 0.003 BTC (57.77%) (1)
2. PAY/BTC 0.0012 BTC (56.91%) (1)
3. VIB/BTC 0.0011 BTC (47.07%) (1)
4. SALT/BTC 0.0010 BTC (30.24%) (1)
5. STORJ/BTC 0.0009 BTC (27.24%) (1)
   ...

/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

/weekly

Per default /weekly will return the 8 last weeks, including the current week. Each week starts from Monday. The example below if for /weekly 3:

Weekly Profit over the last 3 weeks (starting from Monday):

Monday         Profit BTC      Profit USD
----------  --------------  ------------
2018-01-03  0.00224175 BTC  29,142 USD
2017-12-27  0.00033131 BTC   4,307 USD
2017-12-20  0.00269130 BTC  34.986 USD

/monthly

Per default /monthly will return the 6 last months, including the current month. The example below if for /monthly 3:

Monthly Profit over the last 3 months:

Month         Profit BTC      Profit USD
----------  --------------  ------------
2018-01     0.00224175 BTC  29,142 USD
2017-12     0.00033131 BTC   4,307 USD
2017-11     0.00269130 BTC  34.986 USD

/whitelist

Shows the current whitelist

Using whitelist StaticPairList with 22 pairs
IOTA/BTC, NEO/BTC, TRX/BTC, VET/BTC, ADA/BTC, ETC/BTC, NCASH/BTC, DASH/BTC, XRP/BTC, XVG/BTC, EOS/BTC, LTC/BTC, OMG/BTC, BTG/BTC, LSK/BTC, ZEC/BTC, HOT/BTC, IOTX/BTC, XMR/BTC, AST/BTC, XLM/BTC, NANO/BTC

/blacklist [pair]

Shows the current blacklist. If Pair is set, then this pair will be added to the pairlist. Also supports multiple pairs, separated by a space. Use /reload_config to reset the blacklist.

Using blacklist StaticPairList with 2 pairs
DODGE/BTC, HOT/BTC.

/edge

Shows pairs validated by Edge along with their corresponding win-rate, expectancy and stoploss values.

Edge only validated following pairs:

Pair        Winrate    Expectancy    Stoploss
--------  ---------  ------------  ----------
DOCK/ETH   0.522727      0.881821       -0.03
PHX/ETH    0.677419      0.560488       -0.03
HOT/ETH    0.733333      0.490492       -0.03
HC/ETH     0.588235      0.280988       -0.02
ARDR/ETH   0.366667      0.143059       -0.01

/version

Version: 0.14.3