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To further analyze your backtest results, freqtrade will export the trades to file by default.
You can then load the trades to perform further analysis as shown in the [data analysis](strategy_analysis_example.md#load-backtest-results-to-pandas-dataframe) backtesting section.
### Backtest output file
The output file freqtrade produces is a zip file containing the following files:
- The backtest report in json format
- the market change data in feather format
- a copy of the strategy file
- a copy of the strategy parameters (if a parameter file was used)
- a sanitized copy of the config file
This will ensure results are reproducible - under the assumption that the same data is available.
Only the strategy file and the config file are included in the zip file, eventual dependencies are not included.
## Assumptions made by backtesting
Since backtesting lacks some detailed information about what happens within a candle, it needs to take a few assumptions: