From 5816d1c1bdf54031b407574a1ff1198d4dc1562e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Dade Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 21:07:22 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] Updated documentation for new hyperopt --- docs/hyperopt.md | 23 ++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/hyperopt.md b/docs/hyperopt.md index e2dcf3e95..36e5d2d74 100644 --- a/docs/hyperopt.md +++ b/docs/hyperopt.md @@ -21,16 +21,19 @@ and still take a long time. We recommend you start by taking a look at `hyperopt.py` file located in [freqtrade/optimize](https://github.com/freqtrade/freqtrade/blob/develop/freqtrade/optimize/hyperopt.py) -### Configure your Guards and Triggers +### 1. Configure your Guards and Triggers -There are two places you need to change to add a new buy strategy for testing: -- Inside [populate_buy_trend()](https://github.com/freqtrade/freqtrade/blob/develop/freqtrade/optimize/hyperopt.py#L231-L264). -- Inside [hyperopt_space()](https://github.com/freqtrade/freqtrade/blob/develop/freqtrade/optimize/hyperopt.py#L213-L224) -and the associated methods `indicator_space`, `roi_space`, `stoploss_space`. +There are two places you need to change in your strategy file to add a +new buy strategy for testing: -There you have two different type of indicators: 1. `guards` and 2. `triggers`. -1. Guards are conditions like "never buy if ADX < 10", or "never buy if -current price is over EMA10". +- Inside [populate_buy_trend()](https://github.com/freqtrade/freqtrade/blob/develop/user_data/hyperopts/test_hyperopt.py#L230-L251). +- Inside [indicator_space()](https://github.com/freqtrade/freqtrade/blob/develop/user_data/hyperopts/test_hyperopt.py#L207-L223). + +There you have two different type of indicators: 1. `guards` and 2. +`triggers`. + +1. Guards are conditions like "never buy if ADX < 10", or never buy if +current price is over EMA10. 2. Triggers are ones that actually trigger buy in specific moment, like "buy when EMA5 crosses over EMA10" or "buy when close price touches lower bollinger band". @@ -124,9 +127,11 @@ Because hyperopt tries a lot of combinations to find the best parameters it will We strongly recommend to use `screen` or `tmux` to prevent any connection loss. ```bash -python3 ./freqtrade/main.py -c config.json hyperopt -e 5000 +python3 ./freqtrade/main.py -s --hyperopt -c config.json hyperopt -e 5000 ``` +Use `` and `` as the names of the custom strategy and custom hyperopt used. + The `-e` flag will set how many evaluations hyperopt will do. We recommend running at least several thousand evaluations.