Freqtrade is a free and open source crypto trading bot written in Python. It is designed to support all major exchanges and be controlled via Telegram or webUI. It contains backtesting, plotting and money management tools as well as strategy optimization by machine learning.
This software is for educational purposes only. Do not risk money which you are afraid to lose. USE THE SOFTWARE AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE AUTHORS AND ALL AFFILIATES ASSUME NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR TRADING RESULTS.
Always start by running a trading bot in Dry-run and do not engage money before you understand how it works and what profit/loss you should expect.
We strongly recommend you to have coding and Python knowledge. Do not hesitate to read the source code and understand the mechanism of this bot.
Please read the exchange specific notes to learn about eventual, special configurations needed for each exchange.
- Binance
- Bittrex
- FTX
- Gate.io
- Huobi
- Kraken
- OKX (Former OKEX)
- potentially many others. (We cannot guarantee they will work)
Please make sure to read the exchange specific notes, as well as the trading with leverage documentation before diving in.
Exchanges confirmed working by the community:
We invite you to read the bot documentation to ensure you understand how the bot is working.
Please find the complete documentation on the freqtrade website.
- Based on Python 3.8+: For botting on any operating system - Windows, macOS and Linux.
- Persistence: Persistence is achieved through sqlite.
- Dry-run: Run the bot without paying money.
- Backtesting: Run a simulation of your buy/sell strategy.
- Strategy Optimization by machine learning: Use machine learning to optimize your buy/sell strategy parameters with real exchange data.
- Edge position sizing Calculate your win rate, risk reward ratio, the best stoploss and adjust your position size before taking a position for each specific market. Learn more.
- Whitelist crypto-currencies: Select which crypto-currency you want to trade or use dynamic whitelists.
- Blacklist crypto-currencies: Select which crypto-currency you want to avoid.
- Builtin WebUI: Builtin web UI to manage your bot.
- Manageable via Telegram: Manage the bot with Telegram.
- Display profit/loss in fiat: Display your profit/loss in fiat currency.
- Performance status report: Provide a performance status of your current trades.
Please refer to the Docker Quickstart documentation on how to get started quickly.
For further (native) installation methods, please refer to the Installation documentation page.
We simplify the bot by using only binance as a data provider You can download data for the past 2 years using
./bulk-download
this will download data for {15m,1h,4h,12h}
You can add any extra argument provided by freqtrade download-data
For backtesting we can use the backtest.sh script inside config folder, you can find several config files:
- basic.json sets configuration for every strategy
- godstra.json sets configuration for strategy GodStra
- heracles.json sets configuration for strategy Heracles
backtest will automatically select the correct configuration file according to the strategy you run
usage: backtest
--echo : will print the command instead of running it, good for debugging
--strategy: type name of the strategy without .py
--uptrend: run backtest on period 16/05/21 to 18/11/21, based on bitcoin graph
--downtrend: run backtest on period 18/11/21 to 16/05/22, based on bitcoin graph
--up : need to check
--down : need to check
--side: need to check
--mm2021: run backtest on period 16/05/21 to 16/05/22
supports any other argument provided by freqtrade backtesting
working in progress
usage: freqtrade [-h] [-V]
{trade,create-userdir,new-config,new-strategy,download-data,convert-data,convert-trade-data,list-data,backtesting,edge,hyperopt,hyperopt-list,hyperopt-show,list-exchanges,list-hyperopts,list-markets,list-pairs,list-strategies,list-timeframes,show-trades,test-pairlist,install-ui,plot-dataframe,plot-profit,webserver}
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Free, open source crypto trading bot
positional arguments:
{trade,create-userdir,new-config,new-strategy,download-data,convert-data,convert-trade-data,list-data,backtesting,edge,hyperopt,hyperopt-list,hyperopt-show,list-exchanges,list-hyperopts,list-markets,list-pairs,list-strategies,list-timeframes,show-trades,test-pairlist,install-ui,plot-dataframe,plot-profit,webserver}
trade Trade module.
create-userdir Create user-data directory.
new-config Create new config
new-strategy Create new strategy
download-data Download backtesting data.
convert-data Convert candle (OHLCV) data from one format to
another.
convert-trade-data Convert trade data from one format to another.
list-data List downloaded data.
backtesting Backtesting module.
edge Edge module.
hyperopt Hyperopt module.
hyperopt-list List Hyperopt results
hyperopt-show Show details of Hyperopt results
list-exchanges Print available exchanges.
list-hyperopts Print available hyperopt classes.
list-markets Print markets on exchange.
list-pairs Print pairs on exchange.
list-strategies Print available strategies.
list-timeframes Print available timeframes for the exchange.
show-trades Show trades.
test-pairlist Test your pairlist configuration.
install-ui Install FreqUI
plot-dataframe Plot candles with indicators.
plot-profit Generate plot showing profits.
webserver Webserver module.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-V, --version show program's version number and exit
Telegram is not mandatory. However, this is a great way to control your bot. More details and the full command list on the documentation
/start: Starts the trader./stop: Stops the trader./stopbuy: Stop entering new trades./status <trade_id>|[table]: Lists all or specific open trades./profit [<n>]: Lists cumulative profit from all finished trades, over the last n days./forceexit <trade_id>|all: Instantly exits the given trade (Ignoringminimum_roi)./fx <trade_id>|all: Alias to/forceexit/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./help: Show help message./version: Show version.
The project is currently setup in two main branches:
develop- This branch has often new features, but might also contain breaking changes. We try hard to keep this branch as stable as possible.stable- This branch contains the latest stable release. This branch is generally well tested.feat/*- These are feature branches, which are being worked on heavily. Please don't use these unless you want to test a specific feature.
For any questions not covered by the documentation or for further information about the bot, or to simply engage with like-minded individuals, we encourage you to join the Freqtrade discord server.
If you discover a bug in the bot, please search the issue tracker first. If it hasn't been reported, please create a new issue and ensure you follow the template guide so that the team can assist you as quickly as possible.
Have you a great idea to improve the bot you want to share? Please, first search if this feature was not already discussed. If it hasn't been requested, please create a new request and ensure you follow the template guide so that it does not get lost in the bug reports.
Feel like the bot is missing a feature? We welcome your pull requests!
Please read the Contributing document to understand the requirements before sending your pull-requests.
Coding is not a necessity to contribute - maybe start with improving the documentation? Issues labeled good first issue can be good first contributions, and will help get you familiar with the codebase.
Note before starting any major new feature work, please open an issue describing what you are planning to do or talk to us on discord (please use the #dev channel for this). This will ensure that interested parties can give valuable feedback on the feature, and let others know that you are working on it.
Important: Always create your PR against the develop branch, not stable.
The clock must be accurate, synchronized to a NTP server very frequently to avoid problems with communication to the exchanges.
To run this bot we recommend you a cloud instance with a minimum of:
- Minimal (advised) system requirements: 2GB RAM, 1GB disk space, 2vCPU
- Python >= 3.8
- pip
- git
- TA-Lib
- virtualenv (Recommended)
- Docker (Recommended)