From 9323b6b9464a87f59698805e9fbaeda877448fe3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthias <xmatthias@outlook.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 06:48:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] chore: fail to start edge command.

---
 freqtrade/commands/arguments.py         |  4 +++-
 freqtrade/commands/optimize_commands.py | 13 ++++---------
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/freqtrade/commands/arguments.py b/freqtrade/commands/arguments.py
index df5775183..65bd7c46f 100755
--- a/freqtrade/commands/arguments.py
+++ b/freqtrade/commands/arguments.py
@@ -506,7 +506,9 @@ class Arguments:
 
         # Add edge subcommand
         edge_cmd = subparsers.add_parser(
-            "edge", help="Edge module.", parents=[_common_parser, _strategy_parser]
+            "edge",
+            help="Edge module. No longer part of Freqtrade",
+            parents=[_common_parser, _strategy_parser],
         )
         edge_cmd.set_defaults(func=start_edge)
         self._build_args(optionlist=ARGS_EDGE, parser=edge_cmd)
diff --git a/freqtrade/commands/optimize_commands.py b/freqtrade/commands/optimize_commands.py
index 9695a313b..5ec3dfe01 100644
--- a/freqtrade/commands/optimize_commands.py
+++ b/freqtrade/commands/optimize_commands.py
@@ -129,15 +129,10 @@ def start_edge(args: dict[str, Any]) -> None:
     :param args: Cli args from Arguments()
     :return: None
     """
-    from freqtrade.optimize.edge_cli import EdgeCli
-
-    # Initialize configuration
-    config = setup_optimize_configuration(args, RunMode.EDGE)
-    logger.info("Starting freqtrade in Edge mode")
-
-    # Initialize Edge object
-    edge_cli = EdgeCli(config)
-    edge_cli.start()
+    raise ConfigurationError(
+        "The Edge module has been deprecated in 2023.9 and removed in 2025.6. "
+        "All functionalities of edge have been removed."
+    )
 
 
 def start_lookahead_analysis(args: dict[str, Any]) -> None: