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This 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.

freqtrade

Disclaimer

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.

Supported Exchange marketplaces

Please read the exchange specific notes to learn about eventual, special configurations needed for each exchange.

Supported Futures Exchanges (experimental)

Please make sure to read the exchange specific notes, as well as the trading with leverage documentation before diving in.

Community tested

Exchanges confirmed working by the community:

Documentation

We invite you to read the bot documentation to ensure you understand how the bot is working.

Features

  • 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.
  • Adaptive prediction modeling: Build a smart strategy with FreqAI that self-trains to the market via adaptive machine learning methods. Learn more
  • 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.

Quick start

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.

Basic Usage

Bot commands

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}
                 ...

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 RPC commands

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.
  • /stopentry: 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 (Ignoring minimum_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.

Requirements

Up-to-date clock

The clock must be accurate, synchronized to a NTP server very frequently to avoid problems with communication to the exchanges.

Minimum hardware required

To run this bot we recommend you a cloud instance with a minimum of:

  • Minimal (advised) system requirements: 2GB RAM, 1GB disk space, 2vCPU

Software requirements