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Path to userdata directory.
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```
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### Lookahead - analysis
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#### Summary
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Checks a given strategy for look ahead bias via backtest-analysis
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Look ahead bias means that the backtest uses data from future candles thereby not making it viable beyond backtesting
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and producing false hopes for the one backtesting.
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#### Introduction:
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Many strategies - without the programmer knowing - have fallen prey to look ahead bias.
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Any backtest will populate the full dataframe including all time stamps at the beginning.
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If the programmer is not careful or oblivious how things work internally
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(which sometimes can be really hard to find out) then it will just look into the future making the strategy amazing
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but not realistic.
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The tool is made to try to verify the validity in the form of the aforementioned look ahead bias.
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#### How does the command work?
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It will not look at the strategy or any contents itself but instead will run multiple backtests
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by using precisely cut timeranges and analyzing the results each time, comparing to the full timerange.
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At first, it starts a backtest over the whole duration
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and then repeats backtests from the same starting point to the respective points to watch.
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In addition, it analyzes the dataframes form the overall backtest to the cut ones.
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At the end it will return a result-table in terminal.
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Hint:
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If an entry or exit condition is only triggered rarely or the timerange was chosen
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so only a few entry conditions are met
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then the bias checker is unable to catch the biased entry or exit condition.
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In the end it only checks which entry and exit signals have been triggered.
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---Flow chart here for better understanding---
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