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.devcontainer/Dockerfile

@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
-FROM freqtradeorg/freqtrade:develop_freqairl
+FROM freqtradeorg/freqtrade:develop
 
 USER root
 # Install dependencies
 COPY requirements-dev.txt /freqtrade/
 
 RUN apt-get update \
-    && apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends apt-utils dialog \
-    && apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends git sudo vim build-essential \
+    && apt-get -y install git mercurial sudo vim build-essential \
     && apt-get clean \
     && mkdir -p /home/ftuser/.vscode-server /home/ftuser/.vscode-server-insiders /home/ftuser/commandhistory \
     && echo "export PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a'" >> /home/ftuser/.bashrc \

.devcontainer/devcontainer.json

@@ -11,32 +11,29 @@
     "mounts": [
         "source=freqtrade-bashhistory,target=/home/ftuser/commandhistory,type=volume"
     ],
-    "workspaceMount": "source=${localWorkspaceFolder},target=/workspaces/freqtrade,type=bind,consistency=cached",
     // Uncomment to connect as a non-root user if you've added one. See https://aka.ms/vscode-remote/containers/non-root.
     "remoteUser": "ftuser",
 
-    "onCreateCommand": "pip install --user -e .",
     "postCreateCommand": "freqtrade create-userdir --userdir user_data/",
 
-    "workspaceFolder": "/workspaces/freqtrade",
-    "customizations": {
-        "settings": {
-            "terminal.integrated.shell.linux": "/bin/bash",
-            "editor.insertSpaces": true,
-            "files.trimTrailingWhitespace": true,
-            "[markdown]": {
-                "files.trimTrailingWhitespace": false,
-            },
-            "python.pythonPath": "/usr/local/bin/python",
-        },
+    "workspaceFolder": "/freqtrade/",
 
-        // Add the IDs of extensions you want installed when the container is created.
-        "extensions": [
-            "ms-python.python",
-            "ms-python.vscode-pylance",
-            "davidanson.vscode-markdownlint",
-            "ms-azuretools.vscode-docker",
-            "vscode-icons-team.vscode-icons",
-        ],
-    }
+    "settings": {
+        "terminal.integrated.shell.linux": "/bin/bash",
+        "editor.insertSpaces": true,
+        "files.trimTrailingWhitespace": true,
+        "[markdown]": {
+            "files.trimTrailingWhitespace": false,
+        },
+        "python.pythonPath": "/usr/local/bin/python",
+    },
+
+    // Add the IDs of extensions you want installed when the container is created.
+    "extensions": [
+        "ms-python.python",
+        "ms-python.vscode-pylance",
+        "davidanson.vscode-markdownlint",
+        "ms-azuretools.vscode-docker",
+        "vscode-icons-team.vscode-icons",
+    ],
 }

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.md

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Please do not use bug reports to request new features.
   * Operating system: ____
   * Python Version: _____ (`python -V`)
   * CCXT version: _____ (`pip freeze | grep ccxt`)
-  * Freqtrade Version: ____ (`freqtrade -V` or `docker compose run --rm freqtrade -V` for Freqtrade running in docker)
+  * Freqtrade Version: ____ (`freqtrade -V` or `docker-compose run --rm freqtrade -V` for Freqtrade running in docker)
   
 Note: All issues other than enhancement requests will be closed without further comment if the above template is deleted or not filled out.
 

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.md

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Have you search for this feature before requesting it? It's highly likely that a
   * Operating system: ____
   * Python Version: _____ (`python -V`)
   * CCXT version: _____ (`pip freeze | grep ccxt`)
-  * Freqtrade Version: ____ (`freqtrade -V` or `docker compose run --rm freqtrade -V` for Freqtrade running in docker)
+  * Freqtrade Version: ____ (`freqtrade -V` or `docker-compose run --rm freqtrade -V` for Freqtrade running in docker)
 
 
 ## Describe the enhancement

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/question.md

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Please do not use the question template to report bugs or to request new feature
   * Operating system: ____
   * Python Version: _____ (`python -V`)
   * CCXT version: _____ (`pip freeze | grep ccxt`)
-  * Freqtrade Version: ____ (`freqtrade -V` or `docker compose run --rm freqtrade -V` for Freqtrade running in docker)
+  * Freqtrade Version: ____ (`freqtrade -V` or `docker-compose run --rm freqtrade -V` for Freqtrade running in docker)
   
 ## Your question
 

.github/dependabot.yml

@@ -10,17 +10,8 @@ updates:
   directory: "/"
   schedule:
     interval: weekly
-    time: "03:00"
-    timezone: "Etc/UTC"
-  open-pull-requests-limit: 15
+  open-pull-requests-limit: 10
   target-branch: develop
-  groups:
-    types:
-      patterns:
-        - "types-*"
-    pytest:
-      patterns:
-        - "pytest*"
 
 - package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
   directory: "/"

.github/workflows/binance-lev-tier-update.yml

@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-name: Binance Leverage tiers update
-
-on:
-  schedule:
-    - cron: "0 3 * * 4"
-  # on demand
-  workflow_dispatch:
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
-jobs:
-  auto-update:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    environment:
-      name: develop
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-    - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
-      with:
-        python-version: "3.11"
-
-    - name: Install ccxt
-      run: pip install ccxt
-
-    - name: Run leverage tier update
-      env:
-        CI_WEB_PROXY: ${{ secrets.CI_WEB_PROXY }}
-        FREQTRADE__EXCHANGE__KEY: ${{ secrets.BINANCE_EXCHANGE_KEY }}
-        FREQTRADE__EXCHANGE__SECRET: ${{ secrets.BINANCE_EXCHANGE_SECRET }}
-      run: python build_helpers/binance_update_lev_tiers.py
-
-
-    - uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v6
-      with:
-        token: ${{ secrets.REPO_SCOPED_TOKEN }}
-        add-paths: freqtrade/exchange/binance_leverage_tiers.json
-        labels: |
-          Tech maintenance
-          Dependencies
-        branch: update/binance-leverage-tiers
-        title: Update Binance Leverage Tiers
-        commit-message: "chore: update pre-commit hooks"
-        committer: Freqtrade Bot <noreply@github.com>
-        body: Update binance leverage tiers.
-        delete-branch: true

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -11,39 +11,39 @@ on:
     types: [published]
   pull_request:
   schedule:
-    - cron:  '0 3 * * 4'
+    - cron:  '0 5 * * 4'
 
 concurrency:
-  group: "${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}-${{ github.event_name }}"
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
   cancel-in-progress: true
-permissions:
-  repository-projects: read
+
 jobs:
-  build-linux:
+  build_linux:
 
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        os: [ ubuntu-20.04, ubuntu-22.04 ]
-        python-version: ["3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
+        os: [ ubuntu-18.04, ubuntu-20.04, ubuntu-22.04 ]
+        python-version: ["3.8", "3.9", "3.10.6"]
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
     - name: Set up Python
-      uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v4
       with:
         python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
 
     - name: Cache_dependencies
-      uses: actions/cache@v4
+      uses: actions/cache@v3
       id: cache
       with:
         path: ~/dependencies/
         key: ${{ runner.os }}-dependencies
 
     - name: pip cache (linux)
-      uses: actions/cache@v4
+      uses: actions/cache@v3
+      if: runner.os == 'Linux'
       with:
         path: ~/.cache/pip
         key: test-${{ matrix.os }}-${{ matrix.python-version }}-pip
@@ -54,25 +54,27 @@ jobs:
         cd build_helpers && ./install_ta-lib.sh ${HOME}/dependencies/; cd ..
 
     - name: Installation - *nix
+      if: runner.os == 'Linux'
       run: |
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip wheel
         export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${HOME}/dependencies/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
         export TA_LIBRARY_PATH=${HOME}/dependencies/lib
         export TA_INCLUDE_PATH=${HOME}/dependencies/include
         pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
-        pip install -e ft_client/
         pip install -e .
 
-    - name: Check for version alignment
-      run: |
-        python build_helpers/freqtrade_client_version_align.py
-
     - name: Tests
       run: |
-        pytest --random-order --cov=freqtrade --cov=freqtrade_client --cov-config=.coveragerc
+        pytest --random-order --cov=freqtrade --cov-config=.coveragerc
+      if: matrix.python-version != '3.9' || matrix.os != 'ubuntu-22.04'
+
+    - name: Tests incl. ccxt compatibility tests
+      run: |
+        pytest --random-order --cov=freqtrade --cov-config=.coveragerc --longrun
+      if: matrix.python-version == '3.9' && matrix.os == 'ubuntu-22.04'
 
     - name: Coveralls
-      if: (runner.os == 'Linux' && matrix.python-version == '3.10' && matrix.os == 'ubuntu-22.04')
+      if: (runner.os == 'Linux' && matrix.python-version == '3.9')
       env:
         # Coveralls token. Not used as secret due to github not providing secrets to forked repositories
         COVERALLS_REPO_TOKEN: 6D1m0xupS3FgutfuGao8keFf9Hc0FpIXu
@@ -80,20 +82,9 @@ jobs:
         # Allow failure for coveralls
         coveralls || true
 
-    - name: Check for repository changes
-      run: |
-        if [ -n "$(git status --porcelain)" ]; then
-          echo "Repository is dirty, changes detected:"
-          git status
-          git diff
-          exit 1
-        else
-          echo "Repository is clean, no changes detected."
-        fi
-
     - name: Backtesting (multi)
       run: |
-        cp tests/testdata/config.tests.json config.json
+        cp config_examples/config_bittrex.example.json config.json
         freqtrade create-userdir --userdir user_data
         freqtrade new-strategy -s AwesomeStrategy
         freqtrade new-strategy -s AwesomeStrategyMin --template minimal
@@ -101,18 +92,18 @@ jobs:
 
     - name: Hyperopt
       run: |
-        cp tests/testdata/config.tests.json config.json
+        cp config_examples/config_bittrex.example.json config.json
         freqtrade create-userdir --userdir user_data
-        freqtrade hyperopt --datadir tests/testdata -e 6 --strategy SampleStrategy --hyperopt-loss SharpeHyperOptLossDaily --print-all
+        freqtrade hyperopt --datadir tests/testdata -e 5 --strategy SampleStrategy --hyperopt-loss SharpeHyperOptLossDaily --print-all
+
+    - name: Flake8
+      run: |
+        flake8
 
     - name: Sort imports (isort)
       run: |
         isort --check .
 
-    - name: Run Ruff
-      run: |
-        ruff check --output-format=github .
-
     - name: Mypy
       run: |
         mypy freqtrade scripts tests
@@ -125,113 +116,77 @@ jobs:
           details: Freqtrade CI failed on ${{ matrix.os }}
           webhookUrl: ${{ secrets.DISCORD_WEBHOOK }}
 
-  build-macos:
+  build_macos:
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        os: [ "macos-latest", "macos-13", "macos-14" ]
-        python-version: ["3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
-        exclude:
-          - os: "macos-14"
-            python-version: "3.9"
+        os: [ macos-latest ]
+        python-version: ["3.8", "3.9", "3.10.6"]
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
     - name: Set up Python
-      uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v4
       with:
         python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
-        check-latest: true
 
     - name: Cache_dependencies
-      uses: actions/cache@v4
+      uses: actions/cache@v3
       id: cache
       with:
         path: ~/dependencies/
-        key: ${{ matrix.os }}-dependencies
+        key: ${{ runner.os }}-dependencies
 
     - name: pip cache (macOS)
-      uses: actions/cache@v4
+      uses: actions/cache@v3
+      if: runner.os == 'macOS'
       with:
         path: ~/Library/Caches/pip
-        key: ${{ matrix.os }}-${{ matrix.python-version }}-pip
+        key: test-${{ matrix.os }}-${{ matrix.python-version }}-pip
 
     - name: TA binary *nix
       if: steps.cache.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
       run: |
         cd build_helpers && ./install_ta-lib.sh ${HOME}/dependencies/; cd ..
 
-    - name: Installation - macOS (Brew)
-      run: |
-        # brew update
-        # TODO: Should be the brew upgrade
-        # homebrew fails to update python due to unlinking failures
-        # https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/6817
-        rm /usr/local/bin/2to3 || true
-        rm /usr/local/bin/2to3-3.11 || true
-        rm /usr/local/bin/2to3-3.12 || true
-        rm /usr/local/bin/idle3 || true
-        rm /usr/local/bin/idle3.11 || true
-        rm /usr/local/bin/idle3.12 || true
-        rm /usr/local/bin/pydoc3 || true
-        rm /usr/local/bin/pydoc3.11 || true
-        rm /usr/local/bin/pydoc3.12 || true
-        rm /usr/local/bin/python3 || true
-        rm /usr/local/bin/python3.11 || true
-        rm /usr/local/bin/python3.12 || true
-        rm /usr/local/bin/python3-config || true
-        rm /usr/local/bin/python3.11-config || true
-        rm /usr/local/bin/python3.12-config || true
-
-        brew install hdf5 c-blosc libomp
-
-    - name: Installation (python)
+    - name: Installation - macOS
+      if: runner.os == 'macOS'
       run: |
+        brew update
+        brew install hdf5 c-blosc
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip wheel
         export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${HOME}/dependencies/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
         export TA_LIBRARY_PATH=${HOME}/dependencies/lib
         export TA_INCLUDE_PATH=${HOME}/dependencies/include
         pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
-        pip install -e ft_client/
         pip install -e .
 
     - name: Tests
       run: |
         pytest --random-order
 
-    - name: Check for repository changes
-      run: |
-        if [ -n "$(git status --porcelain)" ]; then
-          echo "Repository is dirty, changes detected:"
-          git status
-          git diff
-          exit 1
-        else
-          echo "Repository is clean, no changes detected."
-        fi
-
     - name: Backtesting
       run: |
-        cp tests/testdata/config.tests.json config.json
+        cp config_examples/config_bittrex.example.json config.json
         freqtrade create-userdir --userdir user_data
         freqtrade new-strategy -s AwesomeStrategyAdv --template advanced
         freqtrade backtesting --datadir tests/testdata --strategy AwesomeStrategyAdv
 
     - name: Hyperopt
       run: |
-        cp tests/testdata/config.tests.json config.json
+        cp config_examples/config_bittrex.example.json config.json
         freqtrade create-userdir --userdir user_data
         freqtrade hyperopt --datadir tests/testdata -e 5 --strategy SampleStrategy --hyperopt-loss SharpeHyperOptLossDaily --print-all
 
+    - name: Flake8
+      run: |
+        flake8
+
     - name: Sort imports (isort)
       run: |
         isort --check .
 
-    - name: Run Ruff
-      run: |
-        ruff check --output-format=github .
-
     - name: Mypy
       run: |
         mypy freqtrade scripts
@@ -244,24 +199,24 @@ jobs:
           details: Test Succeeded!
           webhookUrl: ${{ secrets.DISCORD_WEBHOOK }}
 
-  build-windows:
+  build_windows:
 
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     strategy:
       matrix:
         os: [ windows-latest ]
-        python-version: ["3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
+        python-version: ["3.8", "3.9", "3.10.6"]
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
     - name: Set up Python
-      uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v4
       with:
         python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
 
     - name: Pip cache (Windows)
-      uses: actions/cache@v4
+      uses: actions/cache@v3
       with:
         path: ~\AppData\Local\pip\Cache
         key: ${{ matrix.os }}-${{ matrix.python-version }}-pip
@@ -274,33 +229,21 @@ jobs:
       run: |
         pytest --random-order
 
-    - name: Check for repository changes
-      run: |
-        if (git status --porcelain) {
-          Write-Host "Repository is dirty, changes detected:"
-          git status
-          git diff
-          exit 1
-        }
-        else {
-          Write-Host "Repository is clean, no changes detected."
-        }
-
     - name: Backtesting
       run: |
-        cp tests/testdata/config.tests.json config.json
+        cp config_examples/config_bittrex.example.json config.json
         freqtrade create-userdir --userdir user_data
         freqtrade backtesting --datadir tests/testdata --strategy SampleStrategy
 
     - name: Hyperopt
       run: |
-        cp tests/testdata/config.tests.json config.json
+        cp config_examples/config_bittrex.example.json config.json
         freqtrade create-userdir --userdir user_data
         freqtrade hyperopt --datadir tests/testdata -e 5 --strategy SampleStrategy --hyperopt-loss SharpeHyperOptLossDaily --print-all
 
-    - name: Run Ruff
+    - name: Flake8
       run: |
-        ruff check --output-format=github .
+        flake8
 
     - name: Mypy
       run: |
@@ -314,13 +257,13 @@ jobs:
           details: Test Failed
           webhookUrl: ${{ secrets.DISCORD_WEBHOOK }}
 
-  mypy-version-check:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+  mypy_version_check:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
     - name: Set up Python
-      uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v4
       with:
         python-version: "3.10"
 
@@ -332,26 +275,26 @@ jobs:
   pre-commit:
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
-    - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+    - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
       with:
         python-version: "3.10"
-    - uses: pre-commit/action@v3.0.1
+    - uses: pre-commit/action@v3.0.0
 
-  docs-check:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+  docs_check:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
     - name: Documentation syntax
       run: |
         ./tests/test_docs.sh
 
     - name: Set up Python
-      uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v4
       with:
-        python-version: "3.11"
+        python-version: "3.10"
 
     - name: Documentation build
       run: |
@@ -367,67 +310,12 @@ jobs:
           details: Freqtrade doc test failed!
           webhookUrl: ${{ secrets.DISCORD_WEBHOOK }}
 
-
-  build-linux-online:
-    # Run pytest with "live" checks
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-    - name: Set up Python
-      uses: actions/setup-python@v5
-      with:
-        python-version: "3.11"
-
-    - name: Cache_dependencies
-      uses: actions/cache@v4
-      id: cache
-      with:
-        path: ~/dependencies/
-        key: ${{ runner.os }}-dependencies
-
-    - name: pip cache (linux)
-      uses: actions/cache@v4
-      with:
-        path: ~/.cache/pip
-        key: test-${{ matrix.os }}-${{ matrix.python-version }}-pip
-
-    - name: TA binary *nix
-      if: steps.cache.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
-      run: |
-        cd build_helpers && ./install_ta-lib.sh ${HOME}/dependencies/; cd ..
-
-    - name: Installation - *nix
-      run: |
-        python -m pip install --upgrade pip wheel
-        export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${HOME}/dependencies/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
-        export TA_LIBRARY_PATH=${HOME}/dependencies/lib
-        export TA_INCLUDE_PATH=${HOME}/dependencies/include
-        pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
-        pip install -e ft_client/
-        pip install -e .
-
-    - name: Tests incl. ccxt compatibility tests
-      env:
-        CI_WEB_PROXY: http://152.67.78.211:13128
-      run: |
-        pytest --random-order --longrun --durations 20 -n auto
-
-
   # Notify only once - when CI completes (and after deploy) in case it's successfull
   notify-complete:
-    needs: [
-      build-linux,
-      build-macos,
-      build-windows,
-      docs-check,
-      mypy-version-check,
-      pre-commit,
-      build-linux-online
-    ]
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    needs: [ build_linux, build_macos, build_windows, docs_check, mypy_version_check, pre-commit ]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
     # Discord notification can't handle schedule events
-    if: github.event_name != 'schedule' && github.repository == 'freqtrade/freqtrade'
+    if: (github.event_name != 'schedule')
     permissions:
       repository-projects: read
     steps:
@@ -448,95 +336,44 @@ jobs:
           details: Test Completed!
           webhookUrl: ${{ secrets.DISCORD_WEBHOOK }}
 
-  build:
-    name: "Build"
-    needs: [ build-linux, build-macos, build-windows, docs-check, mypy-version-check, pre-commit ]
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
-
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-    - name: Set up Python
-      uses: actions/setup-python@v5
-      with:
-        python-version: "3.11"
-
-    - name: Build distribution
-      run: |
-        pip install -U build
-        python -m build --sdist --wheel
-
-    - name: Upload artifacts 📦
-      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-      with:
-        name: freqtrade-build
-        path: |
-          dist
-        retention-days: 10
-
-    - name: Build Client distribution
-      run: |
-        pip install -U build
-        python -m build --sdist --wheel ft_client
-
-    - name: Upload artifacts 📦
-      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-      with:
-        name: freqtrade-client-build
-        path: |
-          ft_client/dist
-        retention-days: 10
-
-  deploy-pypi:
-    name: "Deploy to PyPI"
-    needs: [ build ]
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
-    if: (github.event_name == 'release')
-    environment:
-      name: release
-      url: https://pypi.org/p/freqtrade
-    permissions:
-      id-token: write
-
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-    - name: Download artifact  📦
-      uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
-      with:
-        pattern: freqtrade*-build
-        path: dist
-        merge-multiple: true
-
-
-    - name: Publish to PyPI (Test)
-      uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@v1.8.14
-      with:
-        repository-url: https://test.pypi.org/legacy/
-
-    - name: Publish to PyPI
-      uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@v1.8.14
-
-
-  deploy-docker:
-    needs: [ build-linux, build-macos, build-windows, docs-check, mypy-version-check, pre-commit ]
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+  deploy:
+    needs: [ build_linux, build_macos, build_windows, docs_check, mypy_version_check, pre-commit ]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
 
     if: (github.event_name == 'push' || github.event_name == 'schedule' || github.event_name == 'release') && github.repository == 'freqtrade/freqtrade'
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
     - name: Set up Python
-      uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v4
       with:
-        python-version: "3.11"
+        python-version: "3.9"
 
     - name: Extract branch name
-      id: extract-branch
+      shell: bash
+      run: echo "##[set-output name=branch;]$(echo ${GITHUB_REF##*/})"
+      id: extract_branch
+
+    - name: Build distribution
       run: |
-        echo "GITHUB_REF='${GITHUB_REF}'"
-        echo "branch=${GITHUB_REF##*/}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+        pip install -U setuptools wheel
+        python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
+
+    - name: Publish to PyPI (Test)
+      uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@v1.5.1
+      if: (github.event_name == 'release')
+      with:
+        user: __token__
+        password: ${{ secrets.pypi_test_password }}
+        repository_url: https://test.pypi.org/legacy/
+
+    - name: Publish to PyPI
+      uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@v1.5.1
+      if: (github.event_name == 'release')
+      with:
+        user: __token__
+        password: ${{ secrets.pypi_password }}
 
     - name: Dockerhub login
       env:
@@ -565,27 +402,24 @@ jobs:
 
     - name: Build and test and push docker images
       env:
-        BRANCH_NAME: ${{ steps.extract-branch.outputs.branch }}
+        IMAGE_NAME: freqtradeorg/freqtrade
+        BRANCH_NAME: ${{ steps.extract_branch.outputs.branch }}
       run: |
         build_helpers/publish_docker_multi.sh
 
-  deploy-arm:
-    name: "Deploy Docker"
-    permissions:
-      packages: write
-    needs: [ deploy-docker ]
+  deploy_arm:
+    needs: [ deploy ]
     # Only run on 64bit machines
     runs-on: [self-hosted, linux, ARM64]
     if: (github.event_name == 'push' || github.event_name == 'schedule' || github.event_name == 'release') && github.repository == 'freqtrade/freqtrade'
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
     - name: Extract branch name
-      id: extract-branch
-      run: |
-        echo "GITHUB_REF='${GITHUB_REF}'"
-        echo "branch=${GITHUB_REF##*/}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+      shell: bash
+      run: echo "##[set-output name=branch;]$(echo ${GITHUB_REF##*/})"
+      id: extract_branch
 
     - name: Dockerhub login
       env:
@@ -596,9 +430,8 @@ jobs:
 
     - name: Build and test and push docker images
       env:
-        BRANCH_NAME: ${{ steps.extract-branch.outputs.branch }}
-        GHCR_USERNAME: ${{ github.actor }}
-        GHCR_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        IMAGE_NAME: freqtradeorg/freqtrade
+        BRANCH_NAME: ${{ steps.extract_branch.outputs.branch }}
       run: |
         build_helpers/publish_docker_arm64.sh
 
@@ -608,4 +441,4 @@ jobs:
       with:
           severity: info
           details: Deploy Succeeded!
-          webhookUrl: ${{ secrets.DISCORD_WEBHOOK }}
+          webhookUrl: ${{ secrets.DISCORD_WEBHOOK }}

.github/workflows/docker-update-readme.yml

@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-name: Update Docker Hub Description
-on:
-  push:
-    branches:
-    - stable
-
-jobs:
-  dockerHubDescription:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-    - name: Docker Hub Description
-      uses: peter-evans/dockerhub-description@v4
-      with:
-        username: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_USERNAME }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_PASSWORD }}
-        repository: freqtradeorg/freqtrade

.github/workflows/docker_update_readme.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+name: Update Docker Hub Description
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+    - stable
+
+jobs:
+  dockerHubDescription:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - name: Docker Hub Description
+      uses: peter-evans/dockerhub-description@v3
+      env:
+        DOCKERHUB_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_USERNAME }}
+        DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_PASSWORD }}
+        DOCKERHUB_REPOSITORY: freqtradeorg/freqtrade

.github/workflows/draft-pdf.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+on: [push]
+
+jobs:
+  paper:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    name: Paper Draft
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Build draft PDF
+        uses: openjournals/openjournals-draft-action@master
+        with:
+          journal: joss
+          # This should be the path to the paper within your repo.
+          paper-path: docs/JOSS_paper/paper.md
+      - name: Upload
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v1
+        with:
+          name: paper
+          # This is the output path where Pandoc will write the compiled
+          # PDF. Note, this should be the same directory as the input
+          # paper.md
+          path: docs/JOSS_paper/paper.pdf

.github/workflows/pre-commit-update.yml

@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-name: Pre-commit auto-update
-
-on:
-  schedule:
-    - cron: "0 3 * * 2"
-  # on demand
-  workflow_dispatch:
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
-jobs:
-  auto-update:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-    - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
-      with:
-        python-version: "3.11"
-
-
-    - name: Install pre-commit
-      run: pip install pre-commit
-
-    - name: Run auto-update
-      run: pre-commit autoupdate
-
-    - name: Run pre-commit
-      run: pre-commit run --all-files
-
-    - uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v6
-      with:
-        token: ${{ secrets.REPO_SCOPED_TOKEN }}
-        add-paths: .pre-commit-config.yaml
-        labels: |
-          Tech maintenance
-          Dependencies
-        branch: update/pre-commit-hooks
-        title: Update pre-commit hooks
-        commit-message: "chore: update pre-commit hooks"
-        committer: Freqtrade Bot <noreply@github.com>
-        body: Update versions of pre-commit hooks to latest version.
-        delete-branch: true

.gitignore

@@ -83,9 +83,6 @@ instance/
 # Scrapy stuff:
 .scrapy
 
-# memray
-memray-*
-
 # Sphinx documentation
 docs/_build/
 # Mkdocs documentation
@@ -111,6 +108,9 @@ target/
 #exceptions
 !*.gitkeep
 !config_examples/config_binance.example.json
+!config_examples/config_bittrex.example.json
+!config_examples/config_ftx.example.json
 !config_examples/config_full.example.json
 !config_examples/config_kraken.example.json
 !config_examples/config_freqai.example.json
+!config_examples/config_freqai-rl.example.json

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -2,41 +2,33 @@
 # See https://pre-commit.com/hooks.html for more hooks
 repos:
   - repo: https://github.com/pycqa/flake8
-    rev: "7.0.0"
+    rev: "4.0.1"
     hooks:
       - id: flake8
-        additional_dependencies: [Flake8-pyproject]
         # stages: [push]
 
   - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-mypy
-    rev: "v1.9.0"
+    rev: "v0.942"
     hooks:
       - id: mypy
         exclude: build_helpers
         additional_dependencies:
-          - types-cachetools==5.3.0.7
+          - types-cachetools==5.2.1
           - types-filelock==3.2.7
-          - types-requests==2.31.0.20240311
-          - types-tabulate==0.9.0.20240106
-          - types-python-dateutil==2.9.0.20240316
-          - SQLAlchemy==2.0.29
+          - types-requests==2.28.11
+          - types-tabulate==0.8.11
+          - types-python-dateutil==2.8.19
         # stages: [push]
 
   - repo: https://github.com/pycqa/isort
-    rev: "5.13.2"
+    rev: "5.10.1"
     hooks:
       - id: isort
         name: isort (python)
         # stages: [push]
 
-  - repo: https://github.com/charliermarsh/ruff-pre-commit
-    # Ruff version.
-    rev: 'v0.3.4'
-    hooks:
-      - id: ruff
-
   - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
-    rev: v4.5.0
+    rev: v2.4.0
     hooks:
       - id: end-of-file-fixer
         exclude: |

.readthedocs.yml

@@ -1,14 +1,8 @@
 # .readthedocs.yml
-version: 2
 
 build:
-  os: "ubuntu-22.04"
-  tools:
-    python: "3.11"
+  image: latest
 
 python:
-  install:
-    - requirements: docs/requirements-docs.txt
-
-mkdocs:
-  configuration: mkdocs.yml
+  version: 3.8
+  setup_py_install: false

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -45,17 +45,16 @@ pytest tests/test_<file_name>.py::test_<method_name>
 
 ### 2. Test if your code is PEP8 compliant
 
-#### Run Ruff
+#### Run Flake8
 
 ```bash
-ruff check .
+flake8 freqtrade tests scripts
 ```
 
-We receive a lot of code that fails the `ruff` checks.
+We receive a lot of code that fails the `flake8` checks.
 To help with that, we encourage you to install the git pre-commit 
-hook that will warn you when you try to commit code that fails these checks.
-
-you can manually run pre-commit with `pre-commit run -a`.
+hook that will warn you when you try to commit code that fails these checks. 
+Guide for installing them is [here](http://flake8.pycqa.org/en/latest/user/using-hooks.html).
 
 ##### Additional styles applied
 
@@ -125,7 +124,7 @@ Exceptions:
 
 Contributors may be given commit privileges. Preference will be given to those with:
 
-1. Past contributions to Freqtrade and other related open-source projects. Contributions to Freqtrade include both code (both accepted and pending) and friendly participation in the issue tracker and Pull request reviews. Both quantity and quality are considered.
+1. Past contributions to Freqtrade and other related open-source projects. Contributions to Freqtrade include both code (both accepted and pending) and friendly participation in the issue tracker and Pull request reviews. Quantity and quality are considered.
 1. A coding style that the other core committers find simple, minimal, and clean.
 1. Access to resources for cross-platform development and testing.
 1. Time to devote to the project regularly.

Dockerfile

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM python:3.12.2-slim-bookworm as base
+FROM python:3.10.7-slim-bullseye as base
 
 # Setup env
 ENV LANG C.UTF-8
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ FROM base as python-deps
 RUN  apt-get update \
   && apt-get -y install build-essential libssl-dev git libffi-dev libgfortran5 pkg-config cmake gcc \
   && apt-get clean \
-  && pip install --upgrade pip wheel
+  && pip install --upgrade pip
 
 # Install TA-lib
 COPY build_helpers/* /tmp/

MANIFEST.in

@@ -5,5 +5,3 @@ recursive-include freqtrade/templates/ *.j2 *.ipynb
 include freqtrade/exchange/binance_leverage_tiers.json
 include freqtrade/rpc/api_server/ui/fallback_file.html
 include freqtrade/rpc/api_server/ui/favicon.ico
-
-prune tests

README.md

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # ![freqtrade](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freqtrade/freqtrade/develop/docs/assets/freqtrade_poweredby.svg)
 
 [![Freqtrade CI](https://github.com/freqtrade/freqtrade/workflows/Freqtrade%20CI/badge.svg)](https://github.com/freqtrade/freqtrade/actions/)
-[![DOI](https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.04864/status.svg)](https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.04864)
 [![Coverage Status](https://coveralls.io/repos/github/freqtrade/freqtrade/badge.svg?branch=develop&service=github)](https://coveralls.io/github/freqtrade/freqtrade?branch=develop)
 [![Documentation](https://readthedocs.org/projects/freqtrade/badge/)](https://www.freqtrade.io)
 [![Maintainability](https://api.codeclimate.com/v1/badges/5737e6d668200b7518ff/maintainability)](https://codeclimate.com/github/freqtrade/freqtrade/maintainability)
@@ -28,9 +27,10 @@ hesitate to read the source code and understand the mechanism of this bot.
 Please read the [exchange specific notes](docs/exchanges.md) to learn about eventual, special configurations needed for each exchange.
 
 - [X] [Binance](https://www.binance.com/)
-- [X] [Bitmart](https://bitmart.com/)
+- [X] [Bittrex](https://bittrex.com/)
+- [X] [FTX](https://ftx.com/#a=2258149)
 - [X] [Gate.io](https://www.gate.io/ref/6266643)
-- [X] [HTX](https://www.htx.com/) (Former Huobi)
+- [X] [Huobi](http://huobi.com/)
 - [X] [Kraken](https://kraken.com/)
 - [X] [OKX](https://okx.com/) (Former OKEX)
 - [ ] [potentially many others](https://github.com/ccxt/ccxt/). _(We cannot guarantee they will work)_
@@ -39,8 +39,7 @@ Please read the [exchange specific notes](docs/exchanges.md) to learn about even
 
 - [X] [Binance](https://www.binance.com/)
 - [X] [Gate.io](https://www.gate.io/ref/6266643)
-- [X] [OKX](https://okx.com/)
-- [X] [Bybit](https://bybit.com/)
+- [X] [OKX](https://okx.com/).
 
 Please make sure to read the [exchange specific notes](docs/exchanges.md), as well as the [trading with leverage](docs/leverage.md) documentation before diving in.
 
@@ -59,7 +58,7 @@ Please find the complete documentation on the [freqtrade website](https://www.fr
 
 ## Features
 
-- [x] **Based on Python 3.9+**: For botting on any operating system - Windows, macOS and Linux.
+- [x] **Based on Python 3.8+**: For botting on any operating system - Windows, macOS and Linux.
 - [x] **Persistence**: Persistence is achieved through sqlite.
 - [x] **Dry-run**: Run the bot without paying money.
 - [x] **Backtesting**: Run a simulation of your buy/sell strategy.
@@ -165,10 +164,6 @@ first. If it hasn't been reported, please
 ensure you follow the template guide so that the team can assist you as
 quickly as possible.
 
-For every [issue](https://github.com/freqtrade/freqtrade/issues/new/choose) created, kindly follow up and mark satisfaction or reminder to close issue when equilibrium ground is reached.
-
---Maintain github's [community policy](https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-community-code-of-conduct)--
-
 ### [Feature Requests](https://github.com/freqtrade/freqtrade/labels/enhancement)
 
 Have you a great idea to improve the bot you want to share? Please,
@@ -207,9 +202,9 @@ To run this bot we recommend you a cloud instance with a minimum of:
 
 ### Software requirements
 
-- [Python >= 3.9](http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/starting/installation/)
+- [Python >= 3.8](http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/starting/installation/)
 - [pip](https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/)
 - [git](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git)
-- [TA-Lib](https://ta-lib.github.io/ta-lib-python/)
+- [TA-Lib](https://mrjbq7.github.io/ta-lib/install.html)
 - [virtualenv](https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/stable/installation.html) (Recommended)
 - [Docker](https://www.docker.com/products/docker) (Recommended)

build_helpers/binance_update_lev_tiers.py

@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-import json
-import os
-from pathlib import Path
-
-import ccxt
-
-
-key = os.environ.get('FREQTRADE__EXCHANGE__KEY')
-secret = os.environ.get('FREQTRADE__EXCHANGE__SECRET')
-
-proxy = os.environ.get('CI_WEB_PROXY')
-
-exchange = ccxt.binance({
-    'apiKey': key,
-    'secret': secret,
-    'httpsProxy': proxy,
-    'options': {'defaultType': 'swap'}
-    })
-_ = exchange.load_markets()
-
-lev_tiers = exchange.fetch_leverage_tiers()
-
-# Assumes this is running in the root of the repository.
-file = Path('freqtrade/exchange/binance_leverage_tiers.json')
-json.dump(dict(sorted(lev_tiers.items())), file.open('w'), indent=2)

build_helpers/freqtrade_client_version_align.py

@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-from freqtrade_client import __version__ as client_version
-
-from freqtrade import __version__ as ft_version
-
-
-def main():
-    if ft_version != client_version:
-        print(f"Versions do not match: \n"
-              f"ft: {ft_version} \n"
-              f"client: {client_version}")
-        exit(1)
-    print(f"Versions match: ft: {ft_version}, client: {client_version}")
-    exit(0)
-
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    main()

build_helpers/install_ta-lib.sh

@@ -8,9 +8,8 @@ if [ -n "$2" ] || [ ! -f "${INSTALL_LOC}/lib/libta_lib.a" ]; then
   tar zxvf ta-lib-0.4.0-src.tar.gz
   cd ta-lib \
   && sed -i.bak "s|0.00000001|0.000000000000000001 |g" src/ta_func/ta_utility.h \
-  && echo "Downloading gcc config.guess and config.sub" \
-  && curl -s 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/master/config.guess' -o config.guess \
-  && curl -s 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/master/config.sub' -o config.sub \
+  && curl 'http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess;hb=HEAD' -o config.guess \
+  && curl 'http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.sub;hb=HEAD' -o config.sub \
   && ./configure --prefix=${INSTALL_LOC}/ \
   && make
   if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then

build_helpers/install_windows.ps1

@@ -1,11 +1,18 @@
-# vendored Wheels compiled via https://github.com/xmatthias/ta-lib-python/tree/ta_bundled_040
+# Downloads don't work automatically, since the URL is regenerated via javascript.
+# Downloaded from https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#ta-lib
 
 python -m pip install --upgrade pip wheel
 
 $pyv = python -c "import sys; print(f'{sys.version_info.major}.{sys.version_info.minor}')"
 
-
-pip install --find-links=build_helpers\ --prefer-binary  TA-Lib
-
+if ($pyv -eq '3.8') {
+    pip install build_helpers\TA_Lib-0.4.25-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl
+}
+if ($pyv -eq '3.9') {
+    pip install build_helpers\TA_Lib-0.4.25-cp39-cp39-win_amd64.whl
+}
+if ($pyv -eq '3.10') {
+    pip install build_helpers\TA_Lib-0.4.25-cp310-cp310-win_amd64.whl
+}
 pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
 pip install -e .

build_helpers/pre_commit_update.py

@@ -8,17 +8,12 @@ import yaml
 
 pre_commit_file = Path('.pre-commit-config.yaml')
 require_dev = Path('requirements-dev.txt')
-require = Path('requirements.txt')
 
 with require_dev.open('r') as rfile:
     requirements = rfile.readlines()
 
-with require.open('r') as rfile:
-    requirements.extend(rfile.readlines())
-
 # Extract types only
-type_reqs = [r.strip('\n') for r in requirements if r.startswith(
-    'types-') or r.startswith('SQLAlchemy')]
+type_reqs = [r.strip('\n') for r in requirements if r.startswith('types-')]
 
 with pre_commit_file.open('r') as file:
     f = yaml.load(file, Loader=yaml.FullLoader)

build_helpers/publish_docker_arm64.sh

@@ -3,22 +3,16 @@
 # Use BuildKit, otherwise building on ARM fails
 export DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1
 
-IMAGE_NAME=freqtradeorg/freqtrade
-CACHE_IMAGE=freqtradeorg/freqtrade_cache
-GHCR_IMAGE_NAME=ghcr.io/freqtrade/freqtrade
-
 # Replace / with _ to create a valid tag
 TAG=$(echo "${BRANCH_NAME}" | sed -e "s/\//_/g")
 TAG_PLOT=${TAG}_plot
 TAG_FREQAI=${TAG}_freqai
-TAG_FREQAI_RL=${TAG_FREQAI}rl
-TAG_FREQAI_TORCH=${TAG_FREQAI}torch
 TAG_PI="${TAG}_pi"
 
 TAG_ARM=${TAG}_arm
 TAG_PLOT_ARM=${TAG_PLOT}_arm
 TAG_FREQAI_ARM=${TAG_FREQAI}_arm
-TAG_FREQAI_RL_ARM=${TAG_FREQAI_RL}_arm
+CACHE_IMAGE=freqtradeorg/freqtrade_cache
 
 echo "Running for ${TAG}"
 
@@ -42,19 +36,17 @@ if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
     echo "failed building multiarch images"
     return 1
 fi
-
-docker build --build-arg sourceimage=freqtrade --build-arg sourcetag=${TAG_ARM} -t freqtrade:${TAG_PLOT_ARM} -f docker/Dockerfile.plot .
-docker build --build-arg sourceimage=freqtrade --build-arg sourcetag=${TAG_ARM} -t freqtrade:${TAG_FREQAI_ARM} -f docker/Dockerfile.freqai .
-docker build --build-arg sourceimage=freqtrade --build-arg sourcetag=${TAG_FREQAI_ARM} -t freqtrade:${TAG_FREQAI_RL_ARM} -f docker/Dockerfile.freqai_rl .
-
 # Tag image for upload and next build step
 docker tag freqtrade:$TAG_ARM ${CACHE_IMAGE}:$TAG_ARM
+
+docker build --cache-from freqtrade:${TAG_ARM} --build-arg sourceimage=${CACHE_IMAGE} --build-arg sourcetag=${TAG_ARM} -t freqtrade:${TAG_PLOT_ARM} -f docker/Dockerfile.plot .
+docker build --cache-from freqtrade:${TAG_ARM} --build-arg sourceimage=${CACHE_IMAGE} --build-arg sourcetag=${TAG_ARM} -t freqtrade:${TAG_FREQAI_ARM} -f docker/Dockerfile.freqai .
+
 docker tag freqtrade:$TAG_PLOT_ARM ${CACHE_IMAGE}:$TAG_PLOT_ARM
 docker tag freqtrade:$TAG_FREQAI_ARM ${CACHE_IMAGE}:$TAG_FREQAI_ARM
-docker tag freqtrade:$TAG_FREQAI_RL_ARM ${CACHE_IMAGE}:$TAG_FREQAI_RL_ARM
 
 # Run backtest
-docker run --rm -v $(pwd)/tests/testdata/config.tests.json:/freqtrade/config.json:ro -v $(pwd)/tests:/tests freqtrade:${TAG_ARM} backtesting --datadir /tests/testdata --strategy-path /tests/strategy/strats/ --strategy StrategyTestV3
+docker run --rm -v $(pwd)/config_examples/config_bittrex.example.json:/freqtrade/config.json:ro -v $(pwd)/tests:/tests freqtrade:${TAG_ARM} backtesting --datadir /tests/testdata --strategy-path /tests/strategy/strats/ --strategy StrategyTestV3
 
 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
     echo "failed running backtest"
@@ -63,9 +55,9 @@ fi
 
 docker images
 
+# docker push ${IMAGE_NAME}
 docker push ${CACHE_IMAGE}:$TAG_PLOT_ARM
 docker push ${CACHE_IMAGE}:$TAG_FREQAI_ARM
-docker push ${CACHE_IMAGE}:$TAG_FREQAI_RL_ARM
 docker push ${CACHE_IMAGE}:$TAG_ARM
 
 # Create multi-arch image
@@ -73,47 +65,22 @@ docker push ${CACHE_IMAGE}:$TAG_ARM
 # Otherwise installation might fail.
 echo "create manifests"
 
-docker manifest create ${IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG} ${CACHE_IMAGE}:${TAG} ${CACHE_IMAGE}:${TAG_ARM} ${IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG_PI}
+docker manifest create --amend ${IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG} ${CACHE_IMAGE}:${TAG_ARM} ${IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG_PI} ${CACHE_IMAGE}:${TAG}
 docker manifest push -p ${IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG}
 
-docker manifest create ${IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG_PLOT} ${CACHE_IMAGE}:${TAG_PLOT} ${CACHE_IMAGE}:${TAG_PLOT_ARM}
+docker manifest create ${IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG_PLOT} ${CACHE_IMAGE}:${TAG_PLOT_ARM} ${CACHE_IMAGE}:${TAG_PLOT}
 docker manifest push -p ${IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG_PLOT}
 
-docker manifest create ${IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG_FREQAI} ${CACHE_IMAGE}:${TAG_FREQAI} ${CACHE_IMAGE}:${TAG_FREQAI_ARM}
+docker manifest create ${IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG_FREQAI} ${CACHE_IMAGE}:${TAG_FREQAI_ARM} ${CACHE_IMAGE}:${TAG_FREQAI}
 docker manifest push -p ${IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG_FREQAI}
 
-docker manifest create ${IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG_FREQAI_RL} ${CACHE_IMAGE}:${TAG_FREQAI_RL} ${CACHE_IMAGE}:${TAG_FREQAI_RL_ARM}
-docker manifest push -p ${IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG_FREQAI_RL}
-
-# Create special Torch tag - which is identical to the RL tag.
-docker manifest create ${IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG_FREQAI_TORCH} ${CACHE_IMAGE}:${TAG_FREQAI_RL} ${CACHE_IMAGE}:${TAG_FREQAI_RL_ARM}
-docker manifest push -p ${IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG_FREQAI_TORCH}
-
-# copy images to ghcr.io
-
-alias crane="docker run --rm -i -v $(pwd)/.crane:/home/nonroot/.docker/ gcr.io/go-containerregistry/crane"
-mkdir .crane
-chmod a+rwx .crane
-
-echo "${GHCR_TOKEN}" | crane auth login ghcr.io -u "${GHCR_USERNAME}" --password-stdin
-
-crane copy ${IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG_FREQAI_RL} ${GHCR_IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG_FREQAI_RL}
-crane copy ${IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG_FREQAI_RL} ${GHCR_IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG_FREQAI_TORCH}
-crane copy ${IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG_FREQAI} ${GHCR_IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG_FREQAI}
-crane copy ${IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG_PLOT} ${GHCR_IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG_PLOT}
-crane copy ${IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG} ${GHCR_IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG}
-
 # Tag as latest for develop builds
 if [ "${TAG}" = "develop" ]; then
-    echo 'Tagging image as latest'
     docker manifest create ${IMAGE_NAME}:latest ${CACHE_IMAGE}:${TAG_ARM} ${IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG_PI} ${CACHE_IMAGE}:${TAG}
     docker manifest push -p ${IMAGE_NAME}:latest
-
-    crane copy ${IMAGE_NAME}:latest ${GHCR_IMAGE_NAME}:latest
 fi
 
 docker images
-rm -rf .crane
 
 # Cleanup old images from arm64 node.
 docker image prune -a --force --filter "until=24h"

build_helpers/publish_docker_multi.sh

@@ -2,17 +2,15 @@
 
 # The below assumes a correctly setup docker buildx environment
 
-IMAGE_NAME=freqtradeorg/freqtrade
-CACHE_IMAGE=freqtradeorg/freqtrade_cache
 # Replace / with _ to create a valid tag
 TAG=$(echo "${BRANCH_NAME}" | sed -e "s/\//_/g")
 TAG_PLOT=${TAG}_plot
 TAG_FREQAI=${TAG}_freqai
-TAG_FREQAI_RL=${TAG_FREQAI}rl
 TAG_PI="${TAG}_pi"
 
 PI_PLATFORM="linux/arm/v7"
 echo "Running for ${TAG}"
+CACHE_IMAGE=freqtradeorg/freqtrade_cache
 CACHE_TAG=${CACHE_IMAGE}:${TAG_PI}_cache
 
 # Add commit and commit_message to docker container
@@ -27,10 +25,7 @@ if [ "${GITHUB_EVENT_NAME}" = "schedule" ]; then
         --cache-to=type=registry,ref=${CACHE_TAG} \
         -f docker/Dockerfile.armhf \
         --platform ${PI_PLATFORM} \
-        -t ${IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG_PI} \
-        --push \
-        --provenance=false \
-        .
+        -t ${IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG_PI} --push .
 else
     echo "event ${GITHUB_EVENT_NAME}: building with cache"
     # Build regular image
@@ -39,16 +34,12 @@ else
 
     # Pull last build to avoid rebuilding the whole image
     # docker pull --platform ${PI_PLATFORM} ${IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG}
-    # disable provenance due to https://github.com/docker/buildx/issues/1509
     docker buildx build \
         --cache-from=type=registry,ref=${CACHE_TAG} \
         --cache-to=type=registry,ref=${CACHE_TAG} \
         -f docker/Dockerfile.armhf \
         --platform ${PI_PLATFORM} \
-        -t ${IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG_PI} \
-        --push \
-        --provenance=false \
-        .
+        -t ${IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG_PI} --push .
 fi
 
 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
@@ -58,16 +49,14 @@ fi
 # Tag image for upload and next build step
 docker tag freqtrade:$TAG ${CACHE_IMAGE}:$TAG
 
-docker build --build-arg sourceimage=freqtrade --build-arg sourcetag=${TAG} -t freqtrade:${TAG_PLOT} -f docker/Dockerfile.plot .
-docker build --build-arg sourceimage=freqtrade --build-arg sourcetag=${TAG} -t freqtrade:${TAG_FREQAI} -f docker/Dockerfile.freqai .
-docker build --build-arg sourceimage=freqtrade --build-arg sourcetag=${TAG_FREQAI} -t freqtrade:${TAG_FREQAI_RL} -f docker/Dockerfile.freqai_rl .
+docker build --cache-from freqtrade:${TAG} --build-arg sourceimage=${CACHE_IMAGE} --build-arg sourcetag=${TAG} -t freqtrade:${TAG_PLOT} -f docker/Dockerfile.plot .
+docker build --cache-from freqtrade:${TAG} --build-arg sourceimage=${CACHE_IMAGE} --build-arg sourcetag=${TAG} -t freqtrade:${TAG_FREQAI} -f docker/Dockerfile.freqai .
 
 docker tag freqtrade:$TAG_PLOT ${CACHE_IMAGE}:$TAG_PLOT
 docker tag freqtrade:$TAG_FREQAI ${CACHE_IMAGE}:$TAG_FREQAI
-docker tag freqtrade:$TAG_FREQAI_RL ${CACHE_IMAGE}:$TAG_FREQAI_RL
 
 # Run backtest
-docker run --rm -v $(pwd)/tests/testdata/config.tests.json:/freqtrade/config.json:ro -v $(pwd)/tests:/tests freqtrade:${TAG} backtesting --datadir /tests/testdata --strategy-path /tests/strategy/strats/ --strategy StrategyTestV3
+docker run --rm -v $(pwd)/config_examples/config_bittrex.example.json:/freqtrade/config.json:ro -v $(pwd)/tests:/tests freqtrade:${TAG} backtesting --datadir /tests/testdata --strategy-path /tests/strategy/strats/ --strategy StrategyTestV3
 
 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
     echo "failed running backtest"
@@ -76,10 +65,11 @@ fi
 
 docker images
 
-docker push ${CACHE_IMAGE}:$TAG
+docker push ${CACHE_IMAGE}
 docker push ${CACHE_IMAGE}:$TAG_PLOT
 docker push ${CACHE_IMAGE}:$TAG_FREQAI
-docker push ${CACHE_IMAGE}:$TAG_FREQAI_RL
+docker push ${CACHE_IMAGE}:$TAG
+
 
 docker images
 

config_examples/config_binance.example.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
     "max_open_trades": 3,
-    "stake_currency": "USDT",
+    "stake_currency": "BTC",
     "stake_amount": 0.05,
     "tradable_balance_ratio": 0.99,
     "fiat_display_currency": "USD",
@@ -36,29 +36,43 @@
         "ccxt_async_config": {
         },
         "pair_whitelist": [
-            "ALGO/USDT",
-            "ATOM/USDT",
-            "BAT/USDT",
-            "BCH/USDT",
-            "BRD/USDT",
-            "EOS/USDT",
-            "ETH/USDT",
-            "IOTA/USDT",
-            "LINK/USDT",
-            "LTC/USDT",
-            "NEO/USDT",
-            "NXS/USDT",
-            "XMR/USDT",
-            "XRP/USDT",
-            "XTZ/USDT"
+            "ALGO/BTC",
+            "ATOM/BTC",
+            "BAT/BTC",
+            "BCH/BTC",
+            "BRD/BTC",
+            "EOS/BTC",
+            "ETH/BTC",
+            "IOTA/BTC",
+            "LINK/BTC",
+            "LTC/BTC",
+            "NEO/BTC",
+            "NXS/BTC",
+            "XMR/BTC",
+            "XRP/BTC",
+            "XTZ/BTC"
         ],
         "pair_blacklist": [
-            "BNB/.*"
+            "BNB/BTC"
         ]
     },
     "pairlists": [
         {"method": "StaticPairList"}
     ],
+    "edge": {
+        "enabled": false,
+        "process_throttle_secs": 3600,
+        "calculate_since_number_of_days": 7,
+        "allowed_risk": 0.01,
+        "stoploss_range_min": -0.01,
+        "stoploss_range_max": -0.1,
+        "stoploss_range_step": -0.01,
+        "minimum_winrate": 0.60,
+        "minimum_expectancy": 0.20,
+        "min_trade_number": 10,
+        "max_trade_duration_minute": 1440,
+        "remove_pumps": false
+    },
     "telegram": {
         "enabled": false,
         "token": "your_telegram_token",

config_examples/config_bittrex.example.json

@@ -29,11 +29,14 @@
         "order_book_top": 1
     },
     "exchange": {
-        "name": "binance",
+        "name": "bittrex",
         "key": "your_exchange_key",
         "secret": "your_exchange_secret",
-        "ccxt_config": {},
-        "ccxt_async_config": {},
+        "ccxt_config": {"enableRateLimit": true},
+        "ccxt_async_config": {
+            "enableRateLimit": true,
+            "rateLimit": 500
+        },
         "pair_whitelist": [
             "ETH/BTC",
             "LTC/BTC",
@@ -53,6 +56,20 @@
     "pairlists": [
         {"method": "StaticPairList"}
     ],
+    "edge": {
+        "enabled": false,
+        "process_throttle_secs": 3600,
+        "calculate_since_number_of_days": 7,
+        "allowed_risk": 0.01,
+        "stoploss_range_min": -0.01,
+        "stoploss_range_max": -0.1,
+        "stoploss_range_step": -0.01,
+        "minimum_winrate": 0.60,
+        "minimum_expectancy": 0.20,
+        "min_trade_number": 10,
+        "max_trade_duration_minute": 1440,
+        "remove_pumps": false
+    },
     "telegram": {
         "enabled": false,
         "token": "your_telegram_token",

config_examples/config_freqai.example.json

@@ -18,11 +18,16 @@
         "name": "binance",
         "key": "",
         "secret": "",
-        "ccxt_config": {},
-        "ccxt_async_config": {},
+        "ccxt_config": {
+            "enableRateLimit": true
+        },
+        "ccxt_async_config": {
+            "enableRateLimit": true,
+            "rateLimit": 200
+        },
         "pair_whitelist": [
-            "1INCH/USDT:USDT",
-            "ALGO/USDT:USDT"
+            "1INCH/USDT",
+            "ALGO/USDT"
         ],
         "pair_blacklist": []
     },
@@ -48,11 +53,11 @@
     ],
     "freqai": {
         "enabled": true,
-        "purge_old_models": 2,
+        "purge_old_models": true,
         "train_period_days": 15,
         "backtest_period_days": 7,
         "live_retrain_hours": 0,
-        "identifier": "unique-id",
+        "identifier": "uniqe-id",
         "feature_parameters": {
             "include_timeframes": [
                 "3m",
@@ -60,8 +65,8 @@
                 "1h"
             ],
             "include_corr_pairlist": [
-                "BTC/USDT:USDT",
-                "ETH/USDT:USDT"
+                "BTC/USDT",
+                "ETH/USDT"
             ],
             "label_period_candles": 20,
             "include_shifted_candles": 2,
@@ -79,7 +84,9 @@
             "test_size": 0.33,
             "random_state": 1
         },
-        "model_training_parameters": {}
+        "model_training_parameters": {
+            "n_estimators": 1000
+        }
     },
     "bot_name": "",
     "force_entry_enable": true,

config_examples/config_ftx.example.json

@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 {
     "max_open_trades": 3,
-    "stake_currency": "BTC",
-    "stake_amount": 0.05,
+    "stake_currency": "USD",
+    "stake_amount": 50,
     "tradable_balance_ratio": 0.99,
     "fiat_display_currency": "USD",
     "timeframe": "5m",
     "dry_run": true,
     "cancel_open_orders_on_exit": false,
     "unfilledtimeout": {
-        "entry": 5,
-        "exit": 5,
+        "entry": 10,
+        "exit": 10,
         "exit_timeout_count": 0,
         "unit": "minutes"
     },
@@ -23,33 +23,55 @@
             "bids_to_ask_delta": 1
         }
     },
-    "exit_pricing":{
+    "exit_pricing": {
         "price_side": "same",
         "use_order_book": true,
         "order_book_top": 1
     },
     "exchange": {
-        "name": "gate",
+        "name": "ftx",
         "key": "your_exchange_key",
         "secret": "your_exchange_secret",
         "ccxt_config": {},
         "ccxt_async_config": {},
         "pair_whitelist": [
-            "ETH/BTC",
-            "LTC/BTC",
-            "ETC/BTC",
-            "XLM/BTC",
-            "XRP/BTC",
-            "ADA/BTC",
-            "DOT/BTC"
+            "BTC/USD",
+            "ETH/USD",
+            "BNB/USD",
+            "USDT/USD",
+            "LTC/USD",
+            "SRM/USD",
+            "SXP/USD",
+            "XRP/USD",
+            "DOGE/USD",
+            "1INCH/USD",
+            "CHZ/USD",
+            "MATIC/USD",
+            "LINK/USD",
+            "OXY/USD",
+            "SUSHI/USD"
         ],
         "pair_blacklist": [
-            "DOGE/BTC"
+            "FTT/USD"
         ]
     },
     "pairlists": [
         {"method": "StaticPairList"}
     ],
+    "edge": {
+        "enabled": false,
+        "process_throttle_secs": 3600,
+        "calculate_since_number_of_days": 7,
+        "allowed_risk": 0.01,
+        "stoploss_range_min": -0.01,
+        "stoploss_range_max": -0.1,
+        "stoploss_range_step": -0.01,
+        "minimum_winrate": 0.60,
+        "minimum_expectancy": 0.20,
+        "min_trade_number": 10,
+        "max_trade_duration_minute": 1440,
+        "remove_pumps": false
+    },
     "telegram": {
         "enabled": false,
         "token": "your_telegram_token",

config_examples/config_full.example.json

@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@
         "force_entry": "market",
         "stoploss": "market",
         "stoploss_on_exchange": false,
-        "stoploss_price_type": "last",
         "stoploss_on_exchange_interval": 60,
         "stoploss_on_exchange_limit_ratio": 0.99
     },
@@ -70,7 +69,6 @@
     },
     "pairlists": [
         {"method": "StaticPairList"},
-        {"method": "FullTradesFilter"},
         {
             "method": "VolumePairList",
             "number_assets": 20,
@@ -90,6 +88,7 @@
     ],
     "exchange": {
         "name": "binance",
+        "sandbox": false,
         "key": "your_exchange_key",
         "secret": "your_exchange_secret",
         "password": "",
@@ -205,7 +204,6 @@
     "strategy_path": "user_data/strategies/",
     "recursive_strategy_search": false,
     "add_config_files": [],
-    "reduce_df_footprint": false,
-    "dataformat_ohlcv": "feather",
-    "dataformat_trades": "feather"
+    "dataformat_ohlcv": "json",
+    "dataformat_trades": "jsongz"
 }

config_examples/config_kraken.example.json

@@ -64,6 +64,20 @@
     "pairlists": [
         {"method": "StaticPairList"}
     ],
+    "edge": {
+        "enabled": false,
+        "process_throttle_secs": 3600,
+        "calculate_since_number_of_days": 7,
+        "allowed_risk": 0.01,
+        "stoploss_range_min": -0.01,
+        "stoploss_range_max": -0.1,
+        "stoploss_range_step": -0.01,
+        "minimum_winrate": 0.60,
+        "minimum_expectancy": 0.20,
+        "min_trade_number": 10,
+        "max_trade_duration_minute": 1440,
+        "remove_pumps": false
+    },
     "telegram": {
         "enabled": false,
         "token": "your_telegram_token",

docker-compose.yml

@@ -6,15 +6,6 @@ services:
     # image: freqtradeorg/freqtrade:develop
     # Use plotting image
     # image: freqtradeorg/freqtrade:develop_plot
-    # # Enable GPU Image and GPU Resources (only relevant for freqAI)
-    # # Make sure to uncomment the whole deploy section
-    # deploy:
-    #   resources:
-    #     reservations:
-    #       devices:
-    #         - driver: nvidia
-    #           count: 1
-    #           capabilities: [gpu]
     # Build step - only needed when additional dependencies are needed
     # build:
     #   context: .
@@ -25,7 +16,7 @@ services:
       - "./user_data:/freqtrade/user_data"
     # Expose api on port 8080 (localhost only)
     # Please read the https://www.freqtrade.io/en/stable/rest-api/ documentation
-    # for more information.
+    # before enabling this.
     ports:
       - "127.0.0.1:8080:8080"
     # Default command used when running `docker compose up`

docker/Dockerfile.armhf

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM python:3.11.8-slim-bookworm as base
+FROM python:3.9.12-slim-bullseye as base
 
 # Setup env
 ENV LANG C.UTF-8
@@ -11,13 +11,12 @@ ENV FT_APP_ENV="docker"
 # Prepare environment
 RUN mkdir /freqtrade \
   && apt-get update \
-  && apt-get -y install sudo libatlas3-base libopenblas-dev curl sqlite3 libhdf5-dev libutf8proc-dev libsnappy-dev \
+  && apt-get -y install sudo libatlas3-base curl sqlite3 libhdf5-dev \
   && apt-get clean \
   && useradd -u 1000 -G sudo -U -m ftuser \
   && chown ftuser:ftuser /freqtrade \
   # Allow sudoers
-  && echo "ftuser ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /bin/chown" >> /etc/sudoers \
-  && pip install --upgrade pip
+  && echo "ftuser ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /bin/chown" >> /etc/sudoers
 
 WORKDIR /freqtrade
 
@@ -26,16 +25,18 @@ FROM base as python-deps
 RUN  apt-get update \
   && apt-get -y install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev libgfortran5 pkg-config cmake gcc \
   && apt-get clean \
+  && pip install --upgrade pip \
   && echo "[global]\nextra-index-url=https://www.piwheels.org/simple" > /etc/pip.conf
 
 # Install TA-lib
 COPY build_helpers/* /tmp/
+RUN cd /tmp && /tmp/install_ta-lib.sh && rm -r /tmp/*ta-lib*
+ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/lib
 
 # Install dependencies
 COPY --chown=ftuser:ftuser requirements.txt /freqtrade/
 USER ftuser
 RUN  pip install --user --no-cache-dir numpy \
-  && pip install --user --no-index --find-links /tmp/ pyarrow TA-Lib==0.4.28 \
   && pip install --user --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
 
 # Copy dependencies to runtime-image

docker/Dockerfile.freqai_rl

@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-ARG sourceimage=freqtradeorg/freqtrade
-ARG sourcetag=develop_freqai
-FROM ${sourceimage}:${sourcetag}
-
-# Install dependencies
-COPY requirements-freqai.txt requirements-freqai-rl.txt /freqtrade/
-
-RUN pip install -r requirements-freqai-rl.txt --user --no-cache-dir

docker/Dockerfile.jupyter

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 FROM freqtradeorg/freqtrade:develop_plot
 
 
-# Pin prompt-toolkit to avoid questionary version conflict
-RUN pip install jupyterlab "prompt-toolkit<=3.0.36" jupyter-client --user --no-cache-dir
+# Pin jupyter-client to avoid tornado version conflict
+RUN pip install jupyterlab jupyter-client==7.3.4 --user --no-cache-dir
 
 # Empty the ENTRYPOINT to allow all commands
 ENTRYPOINT []

docker/docker-compose-freqai.yml

@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
----
-version: '3'
-services:
-  freqtrade:
-    image: freqtradeorg/freqtrade:stable_freqaitorch
-    # # Enable GPU Image and GPU Resources
-    # # Make sure to uncomment the whole deploy section
-    # deploy:
-    #   resources:
-    #     reservations:
-    #       devices:
-    #         - driver: nvidia
-    #           count: 1
-    #           capabilities: [gpu]
-
-    # Build step - only needed when additional dependencies are needed
-    # build:
-    #   context: .
-    #   dockerfile: "./docker/Dockerfile.custom"
-    restart: unless-stopped
-    container_name: freqtrade
-    volumes:
-      - "./user_data:/freqtrade/user_data"
-    # Expose api on port 8080 (localhost only)
-    # Please read the https://www.freqtrade.io/en/stable/rest-api/ documentation
-    # for more information.
-    ports:
-      - "127.0.0.1:8080:8080"
-    # Default command used when running `docker compose up`
-    command: >
-      trade
-      --logfile /freqtrade/user_data/logs/freqtrade.log
-      --db-url sqlite:////freqtrade/user_data/tradesv3.sqlite
-      --config /freqtrade/user_data/config.json
-      --freqaimodel XGBoostRegressor
-      --strategy FreqaiExampleStrategy

docker/docker-compose-jupyter.yml

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ services:
       context: ..
       dockerfile: docker/Dockerfile.jupyter
     restart: unless-stopped
-    # container_name: freqtrade
+    container_name: freqtrade
     ports:
       - "127.0.0.1:8888:8888"
     volumes:

docs/JOSS_paper/note_to_editors.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+Dear Editors,
+We present a paper for ``FreqAI`` a machine learning sandbox for researchers and citizen scientists alike.
+There are a large number of authors, however all have contributed in a significant way to this paper.
+For clarity the contribution of each author is outlined:
+
+  - Robert Caulk            : Conception and software development
+  - Elin Tornquist          : Theoretical brainstorming, data analysis, tool dev
+  - Matthias Voppichler     : Software architecture and code review
+  - Andrew R. Lawless       : Extensive testing, feature brainstorming
+  - Ryan McMullan           : Extensive testing, feature brainstorming
+  - Wagner Costa Santos     : Major backtesting developments, extensive testing
+  - Pascal Schmidt          : Extensive testing, feature brainstorming
+  - Timothy C. Pogue        : Webhooks forecast sharing
+  - Stefan P. Gehring       : Extensive testing, feature brainstorming
+  - Johan van der Vlugt     : Extensive testing, feature brainstorming

docs/JOSS_paper/paper.bib

@@ -0,0 +1,207 @@
+@article{scikit-learn,
+ title={Scikit-learn: Machine Learning in {P}ython},
+ author={Pedregosa, F. and Varoquaux, G. and Gramfort, A. and Michel, V.
+         and Thirion, B. and Grisel, O. and Blondel, M. and Prettenhofer, P.
+         and Weiss, R. and Dubourg, V. and Vanderplas, J. and Passos, A. and
+         Cournapeau, D. and Brucher, M. and Perrot, M. and Duchesnay, E.},
+ journal={Journal of Machine Learning Research},
+ volume={12},
+ pages={2825--2830},
+ year={2011}
+}
+
+@inproceedings{catboost,
+author = {Prokhorenkova, Liudmila and Gusev, Gleb and Vorobev, Aleksandr and Dorogush, Anna Veronika and Gulin, Andrey},
+title = {CatBoost: Unbiased Boosting with Categorical Features},
+year = {2018},
+publisher = {Curran Associates Inc.},
+address = {Red Hook, NY, USA},
+abstract = {This paper presents the key algorithmic techniques behind CatBoost, a new gradient boosting toolkit. Their combination leads to CatBoost outperforming other publicly available boosting implementations in terms of quality on a variety of datasets. Two critical algorithmic advances introduced in CatBoost are the implementation of ordered boosting, a permutation-driven alternative to the classic algorithm, and an innovative algorithm for processing categorical features. Both techniques were created to fight a prediction shift caused by a special kind of target leakage present in all currently existing implementations of gradient boosting algorithms. In this paper, we provide a detailed analysis of this problem and demonstrate that proposed algorithms solve it effectively, leading to excellent empirical results.},
+booktitle = {Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
+pages = {6639–6649},
+numpages = {11},
+location = {Montr\'{e}al, Canada},
+series = {NIPS'18}
+}
+
+
+@article{lightgbm,
+  title={Lightgbm: A highly efficient gradient boosting decision tree},
+  author={Ke, Guolin and Meng, Qi and Finley, Thomas and Wang, Taifeng and Chen, Wei and Ma, Weidong and Ye, Qiwei and Liu, Tie-Yan},
+  journal={Advances in neural information processing systems},
+  volume={30},
+  pages={3146--3154},
+  year={2017}
+} 
+
+@inproceedings{xgboost,
+ author = {Chen, Tianqi and Guestrin, Carlos},
+ title = {{XGBoost}: A Scalable Tree Boosting System},
+ booktitle = {Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining},
+ series = {KDD '16},
+ year = {2016},
+ isbn = {978-1-4503-4232-2},
+ location = {San Francisco, California, USA},
+ pages = {785--794},
+ numpages = {10},
+ url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2939672.2939785},
+ doi = {10.1145/2939672.2939785},
+ acmid = {2939785},
+ publisher = {ACM},
+ address = {New York, NY, USA},
+ keywords = {large-scale machine learning},
+}
+
+@article{stable-baselines3,
+  author  = {Antonin Raffin and Ashley Hill and Adam Gleave and Anssi Kanervisto and Maximilian Ernestus and Noah Dormann},
+  title   = {Stable-Baselines3: Reliable Reinforcement Learning Implementations},
+  journal = {Journal of Machine Learning Research},
+  year    = {2021},
+  volume  = {22},
+  number  = {268},
+  pages   = {1-8},
+  url     = {http://jmlr.org/papers/v22/20-1364.html}
+}
+
+@misc{openai,
+      title={OpenAI Gym}, 
+      author={Greg Brockman and Vicki Cheung and Ludwig Pettersson and Jonas Schneider and John Schulman and Jie Tang and Wojciech Zaremba},
+      year={2016},
+      eprint={1606.01540},
+      archivePrefix={arXiv},
+      primaryClass={cs.LG}
+}
+
+@misc{tensorflow,
+title={ {TensorFlow}: Large-Scale Machine Learning on Heterogeneous Systems},
+url={https://www.tensorflow.org/},
+note={Software available from tensorflow.org},
+author={
+    Mart\'{i}n~Abadi and
+    Ashish~Agarwal and
+    Paul~Barham and
+    Eugene~Brevdo and
+    Zhifeng~Chen and
+    Craig~Citro and
+    Greg~S.~Corrado and
+    Andy~Davis and
+    Jeffrey~Dean and
+    Matthieu~Devin and
+    Sanjay~Ghemawat and
+    Ian~Goodfellow and
+    Andrew~Harp and
+    Geoffrey~Irving and
+    Michael~Isard and
+    Yangqing Jia and
+    Rafal~Jozefowicz and
+    Lukasz~Kaiser and
+    Manjunath~Kudlur and
+    Josh~Levenberg and
+    Dandelion~Man\'{e} and
+    Rajat~Monga and
+    Sherry~Moore and
+    Derek~Murray and
+    Chris~Olah and
+    Mike~Schuster and
+    Jonathon~Shlens and
+    Benoit~Steiner and
+    Ilya~Sutskever and
+    Kunal~Talwar and
+    Paul~Tucker and
+    Vincent~Vanhoucke and
+    Vijay~Vasudevan and
+    Fernanda~Vi\'{e}gas and
+    Oriol~Vinyals and
+    Pete~Warden and
+    Martin~Wattenberg and
+    Martin~Wicke and
+    Yuan~Yu and
+    Xiaoqiang~Zheng},
+  year={2015},
+}
+
+@incollection{pytorch,
+title = {PyTorch: An Imperative Style, High-Performance Deep Learning Library},
+author = {Paszke, Adam and Gross, Sam and Massa, Francisco and Lerer, Adam and Bradbury, James and Chanan, Gregory and Killeen, Trevor and Lin, Zeming and Gimelshein, Natalia and Antiga, Luca and Desmaison, Alban and Kopf, Andreas and Yang, Edward and DeVito, Zachary and Raison, Martin and Tejani, Alykhan and Chilamkurthy, Sasank and Steiner, Benoit and Fang, Lu and Bai, Junjie and Chintala, Soumith},
+booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32},
+editor = {H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and A. Beygelzimer and F. d\textquotesingle Alch\'{e}-Buc and E. Fox and R. Garnett},
+pages = {8024--8035},
+year = {2019},
+publisher = {Curran Associates, Inc.},
+url = {http://papers.neurips.cc/paper/9015-pytorch-an-imperative-style-high-performance-deep-learning-library.pdf}
+}
+
+@ARTICLE{scipy,
+  author  = {Virtanen, Pauli and Gommers, Ralf and Oliphant, Travis E. and
+            Haberland, Matt and Reddy, Tyler and Cournapeau, David and
+            Burovski, Evgeni and Peterson, Pearu and Weckesser, Warren and
+            Bright, Jonathan and {van der Walt}, St{\'e}fan J. and
+            Brett, Matthew and Wilson, Joshua and Millman, K. Jarrod and
+            Mayorov, Nikolay and Nelson, Andrew R. J. and Jones, Eric and
+            Kern, Robert and Larson, Eric and Carey, C J and
+            Polat, {\.I}lhan and Feng, Yu and Moore, Eric W. and
+            {VanderPlas}, Jake and Laxalde, Denis and Perktold, Josef and
+            Cimrman, Robert and Henriksen, Ian and Quintero, E. A. and
+            Harris, Charles R. and Archibald, Anne M. and
+            Ribeiro, Ant{\^o}nio H. and Pedregosa, Fabian and
+            {van Mulbregt}, Paul and {SciPy 1.0 Contributors}},
+  title   = {{{SciPy} 1.0: Fundamental Algorithms for Scientific
+            Computing in Python}},
+  journal = {Nature Methods},
+  year    = {2020},
+  volume  = {17},
+  pages   = {261--272},
+  adsurl  = {https://rdcu.be/b08Wh},
+  doi     = {10.1038/s41592-019-0686-2},
+}
+
+@Article{numpy,
+ title         = {Array programming with {NumPy}},
+ author        = {Charles R. Harris and K. Jarrod Millman and St{\'{e}}fan J.
+                 van der Walt and Ralf Gommers and Pauli Virtanen and David
+                 Cournapeau and Eric Wieser and Julian Taylor and Sebastian
+                 Berg and Nathaniel J. Smith and Robert Kern and Matti Picus
+                 and Stephan Hoyer and Marten H. van Kerkwijk and Matthew
+                 Brett and Allan Haldane and Jaime Fern{\'{a}}ndez del
+                 R{\'{i}}o and Mark Wiebe and Pearu Peterson and Pierre
+                 G{\'{e}}rard-Marchant and Kevin Sheppard and Tyler Reddy and
+                 Warren Weckesser and Hameer Abbasi and Christoph Gohlke and
+                 Travis E. Oliphant},
+ year          = {2020},
+ month         = sep,
+ journal       = {Nature},
+ volume        = {585},
+ number        = {7825},
+ pages         = {357--362},
+ doi           = {10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2},
+ publisher     = {Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}},
+ url           = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2}
+}
+
+ @inproceedings{pandas,
+  title={Data structures for statistical computing in python},
+  author={McKinney, Wes and others},
+  booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th Python in Science Conference},
+  volume={445},
+  pages={51--56},
+  year={2010},
+  organization={Austin, TX},
+  doi={10.25080/Majora-92bf1922-00a}
+}
+
+
+
+@online{finrl,
+  title = {AI4Finance-Foundation},
+  year = 2022,
+  url = {https://github.com/AI4Finance-Foundation/FinRL},
+  urldate = {2022-09-30}
+}
+
+
+@online{tensortrade,
+  title = {tensortrade},
+  year = 2022,
+  url = {https://tensortradex.readthedocs.io/en/latest/L},
+  urldate = {2022-09-30}
+}

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+<journal-title>Journal of Open Source Software</journal-title>
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+</journal-title-group>
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+<article-title><monospace>FreqAI</monospace>: generalizing adaptive
+modeling for chaotic time-series market forecasts</article-title>
+</title-group>
+<contrib-group>
+<contrib contrib-type="author">
+<contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0001-5618-8629</contrib-id>
+<name>
+<surname>Ph.D</surname>
+<given-names>Robert A. Caulk</given-names>
+</name>
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+<contrib contrib-type="author">
+<contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0003-3289-8604</contrib-id>
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+<surname>Ph.D</surname>
+<given-names>Elin Törnquist</given-names>
+</name>
+<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/>
+<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/>
+</contrib>
+<contrib contrib-type="author">
+<name>
+<surname>Voppichler</surname>
+<given-names>Matthias</given-names>
+</name>
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+</contrib>
+<contrib contrib-type="author">
+<name>
+<surname>Lawless</surname>
+<given-names>Andrew R.</given-names>
+</name>
+<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/>
+</contrib>
+<contrib contrib-type="author">
+<name>
+<surname>McMullan</surname>
+<given-names>Ryan</given-names>
+</name>
+<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/>
+</contrib>
+<contrib contrib-type="author">
+<name>
+<surname>Santos</surname>
+<given-names>Wagner Costa</given-names>
+</name>
+<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/>
+<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/>
+</contrib>
+<contrib contrib-type="author">
+<name>
+<surname>Pogue</surname>
+<given-names>Timothy C.</given-names>
+</name>
+<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/>
+<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/>
+</contrib>
+<contrib contrib-type="author">
+<name>
+<surname>van der Vlugt</surname>
+<given-names>Johan</given-names>
+</name>
+<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/>
+</contrib>
+<contrib contrib-type="author">
+<name>
+<surname>Gehring</surname>
+<given-names>Stefan P.</given-names>
+</name>
+<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/>
+</contrib>
+<contrib contrib-type="author">
+<name>
+<surname>Schmidt</surname>
+<given-names>Pascal</given-names>
+</name>
+<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/>
+</contrib>
+<aff id="aff-1">
+<institution-wrap>
+<institution>Emergent Methods LLC, Arvada Colorado, 80005,
+USA</institution>
+</institution-wrap>
+</aff>
+<aff id="aff-2">
+<institution-wrap>
+<institution>Freqtrade open source project</institution>
+</institution-wrap>
+</aff>
+</contrib-group>
+<volume>¿VOL?</volume>
+<issue>¿ISSUE?</issue>
+<fpage>¿PAGE?</fpage>
+<permissions>
+<copyright-statement>Authors of papers retain copyright and release the
+work under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC
+BY 4.0)</copyright-statement>
+<copyright-year>2022</copyright-year>
+<copyright-holder>The article authors</copyright-holder>
+<license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
+<license-p>Authors of papers retain copyright and release the work under
+a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY
+4.0)</license-p>
+</license>
+</permissions>
+<kwd-group kwd-group-type="author">
+<kwd>Python</kwd>
+<kwd>Machine Learning</kwd>
+<kwd>adaptive modeling</kwd>
+<kwd>chaotic systems</kwd>
+<kwd>time-series forecasting</kwd>
+</kwd-group>
+</article-meta>
+</front>
+<body>
+<sec id="statement-of-need">
+  <title>Statement of need</title>
+  <p>Forecasting chaotic time-series based systems, such as
+  equity/cryptocurrency markets, requires a broad set of tools geared
+  toward testing a wide range of hypotheses. Fortunately, a recent
+  maturation of robust machine learning libraries
+  (e.g. <monospace>scikit-learn</monospace>), has opened up a wide range
+  of research possibilities. Scientists from a diverse range of fields
+  can now easily prototype their studies on an abundance of established
+  machine learning algorithms. Similarly, these user-friendly libraries
+  enable “citzen scientists” to use their basic Python skills for
+  data-exploration. However, leveraging these machine learning libraries
+  on historical and live chaotic data sources can be logistically
+  difficult and expensive. Additionally, robust data-collection,
+  storage, and handling presents a disparate challenge.
+  <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.freqtrade.io/en/latest/freqai/"><monospace>FreqAI</monospace></ext-link>
+  aims to provide a generalized and extensible open-sourced framework
+  geared toward live deployments of adaptive modeling for market
+  forecasting. The <monospace>FreqAI</monospace> framework is
+  effectively a sandbox for the rich world of open-source machine
+  learning libraries. Inside the <monospace>FreqAI</monospace> sandbox,
+  users find they can combine a wide variety of third-party libraries to
+  test creative hypotheses on a free live 24/7 chaotic data source -
+  cryptocurrency exchange data.</p>
+</sec>
+<sec id="summary">
+  <title>Summary</title>
+  <p><ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.freqtrade.io/en/latest/freqai/"><monospace>FreqAI</monospace></ext-link>
+  evolved from a desire to test and compare a range of adaptive
+  time-series forecasting methods on chaotic data. Cryptocurrency
+  markets provide a unique data source since they are operational 24/7
+  and the data is freely available. Luckily, an existing open-source
+  software,
+  <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.freqtrade.io/en/stable/"><monospace>Freqtrade</monospace></ext-link>,
+  had already matured under a range of talented developers to support
+  robust data collection/storage, as well as robust live environmental
+  interactions for standard algorithmic trading.
+  <monospace>Freqtrade</monospace> also provides a set of data
+  analysis/visualization tools for the evaluation of historical
+  performance as well as live environmental feedback.
+  <monospace>FreqAI</monospace> builds on top of
+  <monospace>Freqtrade</monospace> to include a user-friendly well
+  tested interface for integrating external machine learning libraries
+  for adaptive time-series forecasting. Beyond enabling the integration
+  of existing libraries, <monospace>FreqAI</monospace> hosts a range of
+  custom algorithms and methodologies aimed at improving computational
+  and predictive performances. Thus, <monospace>FreqAI</monospace>
+  contains a range of unique features which can be easily tested in
+  combination with all the existing Python-accessible machine learning
+  libraries to generate novel research on live and historical data.</p>
+  <p>The high-level overview of the software is depicted in Figure
+  1.</p>
+  <p><named-content content-type="image">freqai-algo</named-content>
+  <italic>Abstracted overview of FreqAI algorithm</italic></p>
+  <sec id="connecting-machine-learning-libraries">
+    <title>Connecting machine learning libraries</title>
+    <p>Although the <monospace>FreqAI</monospace> framework is designed
+    to accommodate any Python library in the “Model training” and
+    “Feature set engineering” portions of the software (Figure 1), it
+    already boasts a wide range of well documented examples based on
+    various combinations of:</p>
+    <list list-type="bullet">
+      <list-item>
+        <p>scikit-learn
+        (<xref alt="Pedregosa et al., 2011" rid="ref-scikit-learn" ref-type="bibr">Pedregosa
+        et al., 2011</xref>), Catboost
+        (<xref alt="Prokhorenkova et al., 2018" rid="ref-catboost" ref-type="bibr">Prokhorenkova
+        et al., 2018</xref>), LightGBM
+        (<xref alt="Ke et al., 2017" rid="ref-lightgbm" ref-type="bibr">Ke
+        et al., 2017</xref>), XGBoost
+        (<xref alt="Chen &amp; Guestrin, 2016" rid="ref-xgboost" ref-type="bibr">Chen
+        &amp; Guestrin, 2016</xref>), stable_baselines3
+        (<xref alt="Raffin et al., 2021" rid="ref-stable-baselines3" ref-type="bibr">Raffin
+        et al., 2021</xref>), openai gym
+        (<xref alt="Brockman et al., 2016" rid="ref-openai" ref-type="bibr">Brockman
+        et al., 2016</xref>), tensorflow
+        (<xref alt="Abadi et al., 2015" rid="ref-tensorflow" ref-type="bibr">Abadi
+        et al., 2015</xref>), pytorch
+        (<xref alt="Paszke et al., 2019" rid="ref-pytorch" ref-type="bibr">Paszke
+        et al., 2019</xref>), Scipy
+        (<xref alt="Virtanen et al., 2020" rid="ref-scipy" ref-type="bibr">Virtanen
+        et al., 2020</xref>), Numpy
+        (<xref alt="Harris et al., 2020" rid="ref-numpy" ref-type="bibr">Harris
+        et al., 2020</xref>), and pandas
+        (<xref alt="McKinney &amp; others, 2010" rid="ref-pandas" ref-type="bibr">McKinney
+        &amp; others, 2010</xref>).</p>
+      </list-item>
+    </list>
+    <p>These mature projects contain a wide range of peer-reviewed and
+    industry standard methods, including:</p>
+    <list list-type="bullet">
+      <list-item>
+        <p>Regression, Classification, Neural Networks, Reinforcement
+        Learning, Support Vector Machines, Principal Component Analysis,
+        point clustering, and much more.</p>
+      </list-item>
+    </list>
+    <p>which are all leveraged in <monospace>FreqAI</monospace> for
+    users to use as templates or extend with their own methods.</p>
+  </sec>
+  <sec id="furnishing-novel-methods-and-features">
+    <title>Furnishing novel methods and features</title>
+    <p>Beyond the industry standard methods available through external
+    libraries - <monospace>FreqAI</monospace> includes novel methods
+    which are not available anywhere else in the open-source (or
+    scientific) world. For example, <monospace>FreqAI</monospace>
+    provides :</p>
+    <list list-type="bullet">
+      <list-item>
+        <p>a custom algorithm/methodology for adaptive modeling</p>
+      </list-item>
+      <list-item>
+        <p>rapid and self-monitored feature engineering tools</p>
+      </list-item>
+      <list-item>
+        <p>unique model features/indicators</p>
+      </list-item>
+      <list-item>
+        <p>optimized data collection algorithms</p>
+      </list-item>
+      <list-item>
+        <p>safely integrated outlier detection methods</p>
+      </list-item>
+      <list-item>
+        <p>websocket communicated forecasts</p>
+      </list-item>
+    </list>
+    <p>Of particular interest for researchers,
+    <monospace>FreqAI</monospace> provides the option of large scale
+    experimentation via an optimized websocket communications
+    interface.</p>
+  </sec>
+  <sec id="optimizing-the-back-end">
+    <title>Optimizing the back-end</title>
+    <p><monospace>FreqAI</monospace> aims to make it simple for users to
+    combine all the above tools to run studies based in two distinct
+    modules:</p>
+    <list list-type="bullet">
+      <list-item>
+        <p>backtesting studies</p>
+      </list-item>
+      <list-item>
+        <p>live-deployments</p>
+      </list-item>
+    </list>
+    <p>Both of these modules and their respective data management
+    systems are built on top of
+    <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.freqtrade.io/en/latest/"><monospace>Freqtrade</monospace></ext-link>,
+    a mature and actively developed cryptocurrency trading software.
+    This means that <monospace>FreqAI</monospace> benefits from a wide
+    range of tangential/disparate feature developments such as:</p>
+    <list list-type="bullet">
+      <list-item>
+        <p>FreqUI, a graphical interface for backtesting and live
+        monitoring</p>
+      </list-item>
+      <list-item>
+        <p>telegram control</p>
+      </list-item>
+      <list-item>
+        <p>robust database handling</p>
+      </list-item>
+      <list-item>
+        <p>futures/leverage trading</p>
+      </list-item>
+      <list-item>
+        <p>dollar cost averaging</p>
+      </list-item>
+      <list-item>
+        <p>trading strategy handling</p>
+      </list-item>
+      <list-item>
+        <p>a variety of free data sources via CCXT (FTX, Binance, Kucoin
+        etc.)</p>
+      </list-item>
+    </list>
+    <p>These features derive from a strong external developer community
+    that shares in the benefit and stability of a communal CI
+    (Continuous Integration) system. Beyond the developer community,
+    <monospace>FreqAI</monospace> benefits strongly from the userbase of
+    <monospace>Freqtrade</monospace>, where most
+    <monospace>FreqAI</monospace> beta-testers/developers originated.
+    This symbiotic relationship between <monospace>Freqtrade</monospace>
+    and <monospace>FreqAI</monospace> ignited a thoroughly tested
+    <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://github.com/freqtrade/freqtrade/pull/6832"><monospace>beta</monospace></ext-link>,
+    which demanded a four month beta and
+    <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.freqtrade.io/en/latest/freqai/">comprehensive
+    documentation</ext-link> containing:</p>
+    <list list-type="bullet">
+      <list-item>
+        <p>numerous example scripts</p>
+      </list-item>
+      <list-item>
+        <p>a full parameter table</p>
+      </list-item>
+      <list-item>
+        <p>methodological descriptions</p>
+      </list-item>
+      <list-item>
+        <p>high-resolution diagrams/figures</p>
+      </list-item>
+      <list-item>
+        <p>detailed parameter setting recommendations</p>
+      </list-item>
+    </list>
+  </sec>
+  <sec id="providing-a-reproducible-foundation-for-researchers">
+    <title>Providing a reproducible foundation for researchers</title>
+    <p><monospace>FreqAI</monospace> provides an extensible, robust,
+    framework for researchers and citizen data scientists. The
+    <monospace>FreqAI</monospace> sandbox enables rapid conception and
+    testing of exotic hypotheses. From a research perspective,
+    <monospace>FreqAI</monospace> handles the multitude of logistics
+    associated with live deployments, historical backtesting, and
+    feature engineering. With <monospace>FreqAI</monospace>, researchers
+    can focus on their primary interests of feature engineering and
+    hypothesis testing rather than figuring out how to collect and
+    handle data. Further - the well maintained and easily installed
+    open-source framework of <monospace>FreqAI</monospace> enables
+    reproducible scientific studies. This reproducibility component is
+    essential to general scientific advancement in time-series
+    forecasting for chaotic systems.</p>
+  </sec>
+</sec>
+<sec id="technical-details">
+  <title>Technical details</title>
+  <p>Typical users configure <monospace>FreqAI</monospace> via two
+  files:</p>
+  <list list-type="order">
+    <list-item>
+      <p>A <monospace>configuration</monospace> file
+      (<monospace>--config</monospace>) which provides access to the
+      full parameter list available
+      <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.freqtrade.io/en/latest/freqai/">here</ext-link>:</p>
+    </list-item>
+  </list>
+  <list list-type="bullet">
+    <list-item>
+      <p>control high-level feature engineering</p>
+    </list-item>
+    <list-item>
+      <p>customize adaptive modeling techniques</p>
+    </list-item>
+    <list-item>
+      <p>set any model training parameters available in third-party
+      libraries</p>
+    </list-item>
+    <list-item>
+      <p>manage adaptive modeling parameters (retrain frequency,
+      training window size, continual learning, etc.)</p>
+    </list-item>
+  </list>
+  <list list-type="order">
+    <list-item>
+      <label>2.</label>
+      <p>A strategy file (<monospace>--strategy</monospace>) where
+      users:</p>
+    </list-item>
+  </list>
+  <list list-type="bullet">
+    <list-item>
+      <p>list of the base training features</p>
+    </list-item>
+    <list-item>
+      <p>set standard technical-analysis strategies</p>
+    </list-item>
+    <list-item>
+      <p>control trade entry/exit criteria</p>
+    </list-item>
+  </list>
+  <p>With these two files, most users can exploit a wide range of
+  pre-existing integrations in <monospace>Catboost</monospace> and 7
+  other libraries with a simple command:</p>
+  <preformat>freqtrade trade --config config_freqai.example.json --strategy FreqaiExampleStrategy --freqaimodel CatboostRegressor</preformat>
+  <p>Advanced users will edit one of the existing
+  <monospace>--freqaimodel</monospace> files, which are simply an
+  children of the <monospace>IFreqaiModel</monospace> (details below).
+  Within these files, advanced users can customize training procedures,
+  prediction procedures, outlier detection methods, data preparation,
+  data saving methods, etc. This is all configured in a way where they
+  can customize as little or as much as they want. This flexible
+  customization is owed to the foundational architecture in
+  <monospace>FreqAI</monospace>, which is comprised of three distinct
+  Python objects:</p>
+  <list list-type="bullet">
+    <list-item>
+      <p><monospace>IFreqaiModel</monospace></p>
+      <list list-type="bullet">
+        <list-item>
+          <p>A singular long-lived object containing all the necessary
+          logic to collect data, store data, process data, engineer
+          features, run training, and inference models.</p>
+        </list-item>
+      </list>
+    </list-item>
+    <list-item>
+      <p><monospace>FreqaiDataKitchen</monospace></p>
+      <list list-type="bullet">
+        <list-item>
+          <p>A short-lived object which is uniquely created for each
+          asset/model. Beyond metadata, it also contains a variety of
+          data processing tools.</p>
+        </list-item>
+      </list>
+    </list-item>
+    <list-item>
+      <p><monospace>FreqaiDataDrawer</monospace></p>
+      <list list-type="bullet">
+        <list-item>
+          <p>Singular long-lived object containing all the historical
+          predictions, models, and save/load methods.</p>
+        </list-item>
+      </list>
+    </list-item>
+  </list>
+  <p>These objects interact with one another with one goal in mind - to
+  provide a clean data set to machine learning experts/enthusiasts at
+  the user endpoint. These power-users interact with an inherited
+  <monospace>IFreqaiModel</monospace> that allows them to dig as deep or
+  as shallow as they wish into the inheritence tree. Typical power-users
+  focus their efforts on customizing training procedures and testing
+  exotic functionalities available in third-party libraries. Thus,
+  power-users are freed from the algorithmic weight associated with data
+  management, and can instead focus their energy on testing creative
+  hypotheses. Meanwhile, some users choose to override deeper
+  functionalities within <monospace>IFreqaiModel</monospace> to help
+  them craft unique data structures and training procedures.</p>
+  <p>The class structure and algorithmic details are depicted in the
+  following diagram:</p>
+  <p><named-content content-type="image">image</named-content>
+  <italic>Class diagram summarizing object interactions in
+  FreqAI</italic></p>
+</sec>
+<sec id="online-documentation">
+  <title>Online documentation</title>
+  <p>The documentation for
+  <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.freqtrade.io/en/latest/freqai/"><monospace>FreqAI</monospace></ext-link>
+  is available online at
+  <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.freqtrade.io/en/latest/freqai/">https://www.freqtrade.io/en/latest/freqai/</ext-link>
+  and covers a wide range of materials:</p>
+  <list list-type="bullet">
+    <list-item>
+      <p>Quick-start with a single command and example files -
+      (beginners)</p>
+    </list-item>
+    <list-item>
+      <p>Introduction to the feature engineering interface and basic
+      configurations - (intermediate users)</p>
+    </list-item>
+    <list-item>
+      <p>Parameter table with indepth descriptions and default parameter
+      setting recommendations - (intermediate users)</p>
+    </list-item>
+    <list-item>
+      <p>Data analysis and post-processing - (advanced users)</p>
+    </list-item>
+    <list-item>
+      <p>Methodological considerations complemented by high resolution
+      figures - (advanced users)</p>
+    </list-item>
+    <list-item>
+      <p>Instructions for integrating third party machine learning
+      libraries into custom prediction models - (advanced users)</p>
+    </list-item>
+    <list-item>
+      <p>Software architectural description with class diagram -
+      (developers)</p>
+    </list-item>
+    <list-item>
+      <p>File structure descriptions - (developers)</p>
+    </list-item>
+  </list>
+  <p>The docs direct users to a variety of pre-made examples which
+  integrate <monospace>Catboost</monospace>,
+  <monospace>LightGBM</monospace>, <monospace>XGBoost</monospace>,
+  <monospace>Sklearn</monospace>,
+  <monospace>stable_baselines3</monospace>,
+  <monospace>torch</monospace>, <monospace>tensorflow</monospace>.
+  Meanwhile, developers will also find thorough docstrings and type
+  hinting throughout the source code to aid in code readability and
+  customization.</p>
+  <p><monospace>FreqAI</monospace> also benefits from a strong support
+  network of users and developers on the
+  <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://discord.gg/w6nDM6cM4y"><monospace>Freqtrade</monospace>
+  discord</ext-link> as well as on the
+  <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://discord.gg/xE4RMg4QYw"><monospace>FreqAI</monospace>
+  discord</ext-link>. Within the <monospace>FreqAI</monospace> discord,
+  users will find a deep and easily searched knowledge base containing
+  common errors. But more importantly, users in the
+  <monospace>FreqAI</monospace> discord share anectdotal and
+  quantitative observations which compare performance between various
+  third-party libraries and methods.</p>
+</sec>
+<sec id="state-of-the-field">
+  <title>State of the field</title>
+  <p>There are two other open-source tools which are geared toward
+  helping users build models for time-series forecasts on market based
+  data. However, each of these tools suffer from a non-generalized
+  frameworks that do not permit comparison of methods and libraries.
+  Additionally, they do not permit easy live-deployments or
+  adaptive-modeling methods. For example, two open-sourced projects
+  called
+  <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://tensortradex.readthedocs.io/en/latest/"><monospace>tensortrade</monospace></ext-link>
+  (<xref alt="Tensortrade, 2022" rid="ref-tensortrade" ref-type="bibr"><italic>Tensortrade</italic>,
+  2022</xref>) and
+  <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://github.com/AI4Finance-Foundation/FinRL"><monospace>FinRL</monospace></ext-link>
+  (<xref alt="AI4Finance-Foundation, 2022" rid="ref-finrl" ref-type="bibr"><italic>AI4Finance-Foundation</italic>,
+  2022</xref>) limit users to the exploration of reinforcement learning
+  on historical data. These softwares also do not provide robust live
+  deployments, they do not furnish novel feature engineering algorithms,
+  and they do not provide custom data analysis tools.
+  <monospace>FreqAI</monospace> fills the gap.</p>
+</sec>
+<sec id="on-going-research">
+  <title>On-going research</title>
+  <p>Emergent Methods, based in Arvada CO, is actively using
+  <monospace>FreqAI</monospace> to perform large scale experiments aimed
+  at comparing machine learning libraries in live and historical
+  environments. Past projects include backtesting parametric sweeps,
+  while active projects include a 3 week live deployment comparison
+  between <monospace>CatboosRegressor</monospace>,
+  <monospace>LightGBMRegressor</monospace>, and
+  <monospace>XGBoostRegressor</monospace>. Results from these studies
+  are on track for publication in scientific journals as well as more
+  general data science blogs (e.g. Medium).</p>
+</sec>
+<sec id="installing-and-running-freqai">
+  <title>Installing and running <monospace>FreqAI</monospace></title>
+  <p><monospace>FreqAI</monospace> is automatically installed with
+  <monospace>Freqtrade</monospace> using the following commands on linux
+  systems:</p>
+  <preformat>git clone git@github.com:freqtrade/freqtrade.git
+cd freqtrade
+./setup.sh -i</preformat>
+  <p>However, <monospace>FreqAI</monospace> also benefits from
+  <monospace>Freqtrade</monospace> docker distributions, and can be run
+  with docker by pulling the stable or develop images from
+  <monospace>Freqtrade</monospace> distributions.</p>
+</sec>
+<sec id="funding-sources">
+  <title>Funding sources</title>
+  <p><ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.freqtrade.io/en/latest/freqai/"><monospace>FreqAI</monospace></ext-link>
+  has had no official sponsors, and is entirely grass roots. All
+  donations into the project (e.g. the GitHub sponsor system) are kept
+  inside the project to help support development of open-sourced and
+  communally beneficial features.</p>
+</sec>
+<sec id="acknowledgements">
+  <title>Acknowledgements</title>
+  <p>We would like to acknowledge various beta testers of
+  <monospace>FreqAI</monospace>:</p>
+  <list list-type="bullet">
+    <list-item>
+      <p>Richárd Józsa</p>
+    </list-item>
+    <list-item>
+      <p>Juha Nykänen</p>
+    </list-item>
+    <list-item>
+      <p>Salah Lamkadem</p>
+    </list-item>
+  </list>
+  <p>As well as various <monospace>Freqtrade</monospace>
+  <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://github.com/freqtrade/freqtrade/graphs/contributors">developers</ext-link>
+  maintaining tangential, yet essential, modules.</p>
+</sec>
+</body>
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docs/JOSS_paper/paper.md

@@ -0,0 +1,212 @@
+---
+title: '`FreqAI`: generalizing adaptive modeling for chaotic time-series market forecasts'
+tags:
+  - Python
+  - Machine Learning
+  - adaptive modeling
+  - chaotic systems
+  - time-series forecasting
+authors:
+  - name: Robert A. Caulk
+    orcid: 0000-0001-5618-8629
+    affiliation: 1, 2 
+  - name: Elin Törnquist
+    orcid: 0000-0003-3289-8604
+    affiliation: 1, 2
+  - name: Matthias Voppichler 
+    orcid: 
+    affiliation: 2
+  - name: Andrew R. Lawless
+    orcid: 
+    affiliation: 2
+  - name: Ryan McMullan
+    orcid: 
+    affiliation: 2
+  - name: Wagner Costa Santos
+    orcid: 
+    affiliation: 1, 2
+  - name: Timothy C. Pogue
+    orcid: 
+    affiliation: 1, 2
+  - name: Johan van der Vlugt
+    orcid: 
+    affiliation: 2
+  - name: Stefan P. Gehring
+    orcid: 
+    affiliation: 2
+  - name: Pascal Schmidt
+    orcid: 0000-0001-9328-4345
+    affiliation: 2
+
+<!-- affiliation: "1, 2" # (Multiple affiliations must be quoted) -->
+affiliations:
+ - name: Emergent Methods LLC, Arvada Colorado, 80005, USA
+   index: 1
+ - name: Freqtrade open source project
+   index: 2
+date: October 2022
+bibliography: paper.bib
+
+
+---
+
+
+# Statement of need
+
+Forecasting chaotic time-series based systems, such as equity/cryptocurrency markets, requires a broad set of tools geared toward testing a wide range of hypotheses. Fortunately, a recent maturation of robust machine learning libraries (e.g. `scikit-learn`), has opened up a wide range of research possibilities. Scientists from a diverse range of fields can now easily prototype their studies on an abundance of established machine learning algorithms. Similarly, these user-friendly libraries enable "citizen scientists" to use their basic Python skills for data-exploration. However, leveraging these machine learning libraries on historical and live chaotic data sources can be logistically difficult and expensive. Additionally, robust data-collection, storage, and handling presents a disparate challenge. [`FreqAI`](https://www.freqtrade.io/en/latest/freqai/) aims to provide a generalized and extensible open-sourced framework geared toward live deployments of adaptive modeling for market forecasting. The `FreqAI` framework is effectively a sandbox for the rich world of open-source machine learning libraries. Inside the `FreqAI` sandbox, users find they can combine a wide variety of third-party libraries to test creative hypotheses on a free live 24/7 chaotic data source - cryptocurrency exchange data. 
+
+
+# Summary
+
+[`FreqAI`](https://www.freqtrade.io/en/latest/freqai/) evolved from a desire to test and compare a range of adaptive time-series forecasting methods on chaotic data. Cryptocurrency markets provide a unique data source since they are operational 24/7 and the data is freely available via a variety of open-sourced [exchange APIs](https://docs.ccxt.com/en/latest/manual.html#exchange-structure). Luckily, an existing open-source software, [`Freqtrade`](https://www.freqtrade.io/en/stable/), had already matured under a range of talented developers to support robust data collection/storage, as well as robust live environmental interactions for standard algorithmic trading. `Freqtrade` also provides a set of data analysis/visualization tools for the evaluation of historical performance as well as live environmental feedback. `FreqAI` builds on top of `Freqtrade` to include a user-friendly well tested interface for integrating external machine learning libraries for adaptive time-series forecasting. Beyond enabling the integration of existing libraries, `FreqAI` hosts a range of custom algorithms and methodologies aimed at improving computational and predictive performances. Thus, `FreqAI` contains a range of unique features which can be easily tested in combination with all the existing Python-accessible machine learning libraries to generate novel research on live and historical data. 
+
+The high-level overview of the software is depicted in Figure 1.
+
+![freqai-algo](assets/freqai_algo.jpg)
+*Abstracted overview of FreqAI algorithm*
+
+## Connecting machine learning libraries
+
+Although the `FreqAI`  framework is designed to accommodate any Python library in the "Model training" and "Feature set engineering" portions of the software (Figure 1), it already boasts a wide range of well documented examples based on various combinations of:
+
+* scikit-learn [@scikit-learn], Catboost [@catboost], LightGBM [@lightgbm], XGBoost [@xgboost], stable_baselines3 [@stable-baselines3], openai gym [@openai], tensorflow [@tensorflow], pytorch [@pytorch], Scipy [@scipy], Numpy [@numpy], and pandas [@pandas]. 
+
+These mature projects contain a wide range of peer-reviewed and industry standard methods, including:
+
+* Regression, Classification, Neural Networks, Reinforcement Learning, Support Vector Machines, Principal Component Analysis, point clustering, and much more. 
+
+which are all leveraged in `FreqAI` for users to use as templates or extend with their own methods.
+  
+## Furnishing novel methods and features
+
+Beyond the industry standard methods available through external libraries - `FreqAI` includes novel methods which are not available anywhere else in the open-source (or scientific) world. For example, `FreqAI` provides :
+
+* a custom algorithm/methodology for adaptive modeling details [here](https://www.freqtrade.io/en/stable/freqai/#general-approach) and [here](https://www.freqtrade.io/en/stable/freqai-developers/#project-architecture)
+* rapid and self-monitored feature engineering tools, details [here](https://www.freqtrade.io/en/stable/freqai-feature-engineering/#feature-engineering)
+* unique model features/indicators, such as the [inlier metric](https://www.freqtrade.io/en/stable/freqai-feature-engineering/#inlier-metric)
+* optimized data collection/storage algorithms, all code shown [here](https://github.com/freqtrade/freqtrade/blob/develop/freqtrade/freqai/data_drawer.py)
+* safely integrated outlier detection methods, details [here](https://www.freqtrade.io/en/stable/freqai-feature-engineering/#outlier-detection)
+* websocket communicated forecasts, details [here](https://www.freqtrade.io/en/stable/producer-consumer/)
+
+Of particular interest for researchers, `FreqAI` provides the option of large scale experimentation via an optimized [websocket communications interface](https://www.freqtrade.io/en/stable/producer-consumer/).
+
+## Optimizing the back-end
+
+`FreqAI` aims to make it simple for users to combine all the above tools to run studies based in two distinct modules:
+
+* backtesting studies
+* live-deployments 
+
+Both of these modules and their respective data management systems are built on top of [`Freqtrade`](https://www.freqtrade.io/en/latest/), a mature and actively developed cryptocurrency trading software. This means that `FreqAI` benefits from a wide range of tangential/disparate feature developments such as:
+
+* FreqUI, a graphical interface for backtesting and live monitoring
+* telegram control
+* robust database handling
+* futures/leverage trading
+* dollar cost averaging
+* trading strategy handling
+* a variety of free data sources via [CCXT](https://docs.ccxt.com/en/latest/manual.html#exchange-structure) (FTX, Binance, Kucoin etc.)
+
+These features derive from a strong external developer community that shares in the benefit and stability of a communal CI (Continuous Integration) system. Beyond the developer community, `FreqAI` benefits strongly from the userbase of `Freqtrade`, where most `FreqAI` beta-testers/developers originated. This symbiotic relationship between `Freqtrade` and `FreqAI` ignited a thoroughly tested [`beta`](https://github.com/freqtrade/freqtrade/pull/6832), which demanded a four month beta and [comprehensive documentation](https://www.freqtrade.io/en/latest/freqai/) containing:
+
+* numerous example scripts
+* a full parameter table
+* methodological descriptions
+* high-resolution diagrams/figures
+* detailed parameter setting recommendations
+
+## Providing a reproducible foundation for researchers
+
+`FreqAI` provides an extensible, robust, framework for researchers and citizen data scientists. The `FreqAI` sandbox enables rapid conception and testing of exotic hypotheses. From a research perspective, `FreqAI` handles the multitude of logistics associated with live deployments, historical backtesting, and feature engineering. With `FreqAI`, researchers can focus on their primary interests of feature engineering and hypothesis testing rather than figuring out how to collect and handle data. Further - the well maintained and easily installed open-source framework of `FreqAI` enables reproducible scientific studies. This reproducibility component is essential to general scientific advancement in time-series forecasting for chaotic systems. 
+
+# Technical details
+
+Typical users configure `FreqAI` via two files:
+
+1. A `configuration` file (`--config`) which provides access to the full parameter list available [here](https://www.freqtrade.io/en/latest/freqai/):
+  * control high-level feature engineering
+  * customize adaptive modeling techniques
+  * set any model training parameters available in third-party libraries
+  * manage adaptive modeling parameters (retrain frequency, training window size, continual learning, etc.)
+
+2. A strategy file (`--strategy`) where users:
+  * list of the base training features
+  * set standard technical-analysis strategies
+  * control trade entry/exit criteria
+
+With these two files, most users can exploit a wide range of pre-existing integrations in `Catboost` and 7 other libraries with a simple command:
+
+```
+freqtrade trade --config config_freqai.example.json --strategy FreqaiExampleStrategy --freqaimodel CatboostRegressor
+```
+
+Advanced users will edit one of the existing `--freqaimodel` files, which are simply an children of the `IFreqaiModel` (details below). Within these files, advanced users can customize training procedures, prediction procedures, outlier detection methods, data preparation, data saving methods, etc. This is all configured in a way where they can customize as little or as much as they want. This flexible customization is owed to the foundational architecture in `FreqAI`, which is comprised of three distinct Python objects:
+
+* `IFreqaiModel`
+  * A singular long-lived object containing all the necessary logic to collect data, store data, process data, engineer features, run training, and inference models. 
+* `FreqaiDataKitchen`
+  * A short-lived object which is uniquely created for each asset/model. Beyond metadata, it also contains a variety of data processing tools. 
+* `FreqaiDataDrawer`
+  * Singular long-lived object containing all the historical predictions, models, and save/load methods. 
+
+These objects interact with one another with one goal in mind - to provide a clean data set to machine learning experts/enthusiasts at the user endpoint. These power-users interact with an inherited `IFreqaiModel` that allows them to dig as deep or as shallow as they wish into the inheritence tree. Typical power-users focus their efforts on customizing training procedures and testing exotic functionalities available in third-party libraries. Thus, power-users are freed from the algorithmic weight associated with data management, and can instead focus their energy on testing creative hypotheses. Meanwhile, some users choose to override deeper functionalities within `IFreqaiModel` to help them craft unique data structures and training procedures.
+
+The class structure and algorithmic details are depicted in the following diagram: 
+
+![image](assets/freqai_algorithm-diagram.jpg)
+*Class diagram summarizing object interactions in FreqAI*
+
+# Online documentation
+
+The documentation for [`FreqAI`](https://www.freqtrade.io/en/latest/freqai/) is available online at [https://www.freqtrade.io/en/latest/freqai/](https://www.freqtrade.io/en/latest/freqai/) and covers a wide range of materials:
+
+* Quick-start with a single command and example files - (beginners)
+* Introduction to the feature engineering interface and basic configurations - (intermediate users)
+* Parameter table with indepth descriptions and default parameter setting recommendations - (intermediate users)
+* Data analysis and post-processing - (advanced users)
+* Methodological considerations complemented by high resolution figures - (advanced users)
+* Instructions for integrating third party machine learning libraries into custom prediction models - (advanced users)
+* Software architectural description with class diagram - (developers) 
+* File structure descriptions - (developers)
+
+The docs direct users to a variety of pre-made examples which integrate `Catboost`, `LightGBM`, `XGBoost`, `Sklearn`, `stable_baselines3`, `torch`, `tensorflow`. Meanwhile, developers will also find thorough docstrings and type hinting throughout the source code to aid in code readability and customization. 
+
+`FreqAI` also benefits from a strong support network of users and developers on the [`Freqtrade` discord](https://discord.gg/w6nDM6cM4y) as well as on the [`FreqAI` discord](https://discord.gg/xE4RMg4QYw). Within the `FreqAI` discord, users will find a deep and easily searched knowledge base containing common errors. But more importantly, users in the `FreqAI` discord share anectdotal and quantitative observations which compare performance between various third-party libraries and methods.
+
+# State of the field
+
+There are two other open-source tools which are geared toward helping users build models for time-series forecasts on market based data. However, each of these tools suffer from a non-generalized frameworks that do not permit comparison of methods and libraries. Additionally, they do not permit easy live-deployments or adaptive-modeling methods. For example, two open-sourced projects called [`tensortrade`](https://tensortradex.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) [@tensortrade] and [`FinRL`](https://github.com/AI4Finance-Foundation/FinRL) [@finrl] limit users to the exploration of reinforcement learning on historical data. These softwares also do not provide robust live deployments, they do not furnish novel feature engineering algorithms, and they do not provide custom data analysis tools. `FreqAI` fills the gap. 
+
+# On-going research
+
+Emergent Methods, based in Arvada CO, is actively using `FreqAI` to perform large scale experiments aimed at comparing machine learning libraries in live and historical environments. Past projects include backtesting parametric sweeps, while active projects include a 3 week live deployment comparison between `CatboostRegressor`, `LightGBMRegressor`, and `XGBoostRegressor`. Results from these studies are planned for submission to scientific journals as well as more general data science blogs (e.g. Medium).
+
+# Installing and running `FreqAI`
+
+`FreqAI` is automatically installed with `Freqtrade` using the following commands on linux systems:
+
+```
+git clone git@github.com:freqtrade/freqtrade.git
+cd freqtrade
+./setup.sh -i
+```
+
+However, `FreqAI` also benefits from `Freqtrade` docker distributions, and can be run with docker by pulling the stable or develop images from `Freqtrade` distributions.
+
+# Funding sources
+
+[`FreqAI`](https://www.freqtrade.io/en/latest/freqai/) has had no official sponsors, and is entirely grass roots. All donations into the project (e.g. the GitHub sponsor system) are kept inside the project to help support development of open-sourced and communally beneficial features. 
+
+# Acknowledgements
+
+We would like to acknowledge various beta testers of `FreqAI`:
+
+- Longlong Yu (lolongcovas)
+- Richárd Józsa (richardjozsa)
+- Juha Nykänen (suikula)
+- Emre Suzen (aemr3)
+- Salah Lamkadem (ikonx)
+
+As well as various `Freqtrade` [developers](https://github.com/freqtrade/freqtrade/graphs/contributors) maintaining tangential, yet essential, modules.
+
+# References

docs/advanced-backtesting.md

@@ -29,22 +29,20 @@ If all goes well, you should now see a `backtest-result-{timestamp}_signals.pkl`
 `user_data/backtest_results` folder.
 
 To analyze the entry/exit tags, we now need to use the `freqtrade backtesting-analysis` command
-with `--analysis-groups` option provided with space-separated arguments:
+with `--analysis-groups` option provided with space-separated arguments (default `0 1 2`):
 
 ``` bash
-freqtrade backtesting-analysis -c <config.json> --analysis-groups 0 1 2 3 4 5
+freqtrade backtesting-analysis -c <config.json> --analysis-groups 0 1 2 3 4
 ```
 
 This command will read from the last backtesting results. The `--analysis-groups` option is
 used to specify the various tabular outputs showing the profit fo each group or trade,
 ranging from the simplest (0) to the most detailed per pair, per buy and per sell tag (4):
 
-* 0: overall winrate and profit summary by enter_tag
 * 1: profit summaries grouped by enter_tag
 * 2: profit summaries grouped by enter_tag and exit_tag
 * 3: profit summaries grouped by pair and enter_tag
 * 4: profit summaries grouped by pair, enter_ and exit_tag (this can get quite large)
-* 5: profit summaries grouped by exit_tag
 
 More options are available by running with the `-h` option.
 
@@ -102,68 +100,3 @@ freqtrade backtesting-analysis -c <config.json> --analysis-groups 0 2 --enter-re
 The indicators have to be present in your strategy's main DataFrame (either for your main
 timeframe or for informative timeframes) otherwise they will simply be ignored in the script
 output.
-
-There are a range of candle and trade-related fields that are included in the analysis so are 
-automatically accessible by including them on the indicator-list, and these include:
-
-- **open_date     :** trade open datetime
-- **close_date    :** trade close datetime
-- **min_rate      :** minimum price seen throughout the position
-- **max_rate      :** maximum price seen throughout the position
-- **open          :** signal candle open price
-- **close         :** signal candle close price
-- **high          :** signal candle high price
-- **low           :** signal candle low price
-- **volume        :** signal candle volume
-- **profit_ratio  :** trade profit ratio
-- **profit_abs    :** absolute profit return of the trade 
-
-
-### Filtering the trade output by date
-
-To show only trades between dates within your backtested timerange, supply the usual `timerange` option in `YYYYMMDD-[YYYYMMDD]` format:
-
-```
---timerange : Timerange to filter output trades, start date inclusive, end date exclusive. e.g. 20220101-20221231
-```
-
-For example, if your backtest timerange was `20220101-20221231` but you only want to output trades in January:
-
-```bash
-freqtrade backtesting-analysis -c <config.json> --timerange 20220101-20220201
-```
-
-### Printing out rejected signals
-
-Use the `--rejected-signals` option to print out rejected signals.
-
-```bash
-freqtrade backtesting-analysis -c <config.json> --rejected-signals
-```
-
-### Writing tables to CSV
-
-Some of the tabular outputs can become large, so printing them out to the terminal is not preferable.
-Use the `--analysis-to-csv` option to disable printing out of tables to standard out and write them to CSV files.
-
-```bash
-freqtrade backtesting-analysis -c <config.json> --analysis-to-csv
-```
-
-By default this will write one file per output table you specified in the `backtesting-analysis` command, e.g.
-
-```bash
-freqtrade backtesting-analysis -c <config.json> --analysis-to-csv --rejected-signals --analysis-groups 0 1
-```
-
-This will write to `user_data/backtest_results`:
-
-* rejected_signals.csv
-* group_0.csv
-* group_1.csv
-
-To override where the files will be written, also specify the `--analysis-csv-path` option.
-
-```bash
-freqtrade backtesting-analysis -c <config.json> --analysis-to-csv --analysis-csv-path another/data/path/
-```

docs/advanced-hyperopt.md

@@ -75,11 +75,9 @@ This function needs to return a floating point number (`float`). Smaller numbers
 
 ## Overriding pre-defined spaces
 
-To override a pre-defined space (`roi_space`, `generate_roi_table`, `stoploss_space`, `trailing_space`, `max_open_trades_space`), define a nested class called Hyperopt and define the required spaces as follows:
+To override a pre-defined space (`roi_space`, `generate_roi_table`, `stoploss_space`, `trailing_space`), define a nested class called Hyperopt and define the required spaces as follows:
 
 ```python
-from freqtrade.optimize.space import Categorical, Dimension, Integer, SKDecimal
-
 class MyAwesomeStrategy(IStrategy):
     class HyperOpt:
         # Define a custom stoploss space.
@@ -96,39 +94,6 @@ class MyAwesomeStrategy(IStrategy):
                 SKDecimal(0.01, 0.07, decimals=3, name='roi_p2'),
                 SKDecimal(0.01, 0.20, decimals=3, name='roi_p3'),
             ]
-
-        def generate_roi_table(params: Dict) -> Dict[int, float]:
-
-            roi_table = {}
-            roi_table[0] = params['roi_p1'] + params['roi_p2'] + params['roi_p3']
-            roi_table[params['roi_t3']] = params['roi_p1'] + params['roi_p2']
-            roi_table[params['roi_t3'] + params['roi_t2']] = params['roi_p1']
-            roi_table[params['roi_t3'] + params['roi_t2'] + params['roi_t1']] = 0
-
-            return roi_table
-
-        def trailing_space() -> List[Dimension]:
-            # All parameters here are mandatory, you can only modify their type or the range.
-            return [
-                # Fixed to true, if optimizing trailing_stop we assume to use trailing stop at all times.
-                Categorical([True], name='trailing_stop'),
-
-                SKDecimal(0.01, 0.35, decimals=3, name='trailing_stop_positive'),
-                # 'trailing_stop_positive_offset' should be greater than 'trailing_stop_positive',
-                # so this intermediate parameter is used as the value of the difference between
-                # them. The value of the 'trailing_stop_positive_offset' is constructed in the
-                # generate_trailing_params() method.
-                # This is similar to the hyperspace dimensions used for constructing the ROI tables.
-                SKDecimal(0.001, 0.1, decimals=3, name='trailing_stop_positive_offset_p1'),
-
-                Categorical([True, False], name='trailing_only_offset_is_reached'),
-        ]
-
-        # Define a custom max_open_trades space
-        def max_open_trades_space(self) -> List[Dimension]:
-            return [
-                Integer(-1, 10, name='max_open_trades'),
-            ]
 ```
 
 !!! Note
@@ -136,7 +101,7 @@ class MyAwesomeStrategy(IStrategy):
 
 ### Dynamic parameters
 
-Parameters can also be defined dynamically, but must be available to the instance once the [`bot_start()` callback](strategy-callbacks.md#bot-start) has been called.
+Parameters can also be defined dynamically, but must be available to the instance once the * [`bot_start()` callback](strategy-callbacks.md#bot-start) has been called.
 
 ``` python
 

docs/advanced-setup.md

@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ $RepeatedMsgReduction on
 
 ### Logging to journald
 
-This needs the `cysystemd` python package installed as dependency (`pip install cysystemd`), which is not available on Windows. Hence, the whole journald logging functionality is not available for a bot running on Windows.
+This needs the `systemd` python package installed as the dependency, which is not available on Windows. Hence, the whole journald logging functionality is not available for a bot running on Windows.
 
 To send Freqtrade log messages to `journald` system service use the `--logfile` command line option with the value in the following format:
 

docs/backtesting.md

@@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ optional arguments:
                         Specify timeframe (`1m`, `5m`, `30m`, `1h`, `1d`).
   --timerange TIMERANGE
                         Specify what timerange of data to use.
-  --data-format-ohlcv {json,jsongz,hdf5,feather,parquet}
+  --data-format-ohlcv {json,jsongz,hdf5}
                         Storage format for downloaded candle (OHLCV) data.
-                        (default: `feather`).
+                        (default: `json`).
   --max-open-trades INT
                         Override the value of the `max_open_trades`
                         configuration setting.
@@ -170,11 +170,11 @@ freqtrade backtesting --strategy AwesomeStrategy --dry-run-wallet 1000
 
 Using a different on-disk historical candle (OHLCV) data source
 
-Assume you downloaded the history data from the Binance exchange and kept it in the `user_data/data/binance-20180101` directory. 
+Assume you downloaded the history data from the Bittrex exchange and kept it in the `user_data/data/bittrex-20180101` directory. 
 You can then use this data for backtesting as follows:
 
 ```bash
-freqtrade backtesting --strategy AwesomeStrategy --datadir user_data/data/binance-20180101 
+freqtrade backtesting --strategy AwesomeStrategy --datadir user_data/data/bittrex-20180101 
 ```
 
 ---
@@ -252,42 +252,41 @@ The most important in the backtesting is to understand the result.
 A backtesting result will look like that:
 
 ```
-================================================ BACKTESTING REPORT =================================================
-| Pair     | Entries |   Avg Profit % |   Tot Profit BTC |   Tot Profit % | Avg Duration |  Wins Draws Loss   Win%  |
-|:---------|--------:|---------------:|-----------------:|---------------:|:-------------|-------------------------:|
-| ADA/BTC  |      35 |          -0.11 |      -0.00019428 |          -1.94 | 4:35:00      |    14     0    21   40.0 |
-| ARK/BTC  |      11 |          -0.41 |      -0.00022647 |          -2.26 | 2:03:00      |     3     0     8   27.3 |
-| BTS/BTC  |      32 |           0.31 |       0.00048938 |           4.89 | 5:05:00      |    18     0    14   56.2 |
-| DASH/BTC |      13 |          -0.08 |      -0.00005343 |          -0.53 | 4:39:00      |     6     0     7   46.2 |
-| ENG/BTC  |      18 |           1.36 |       0.00122807 |          12.27 | 2:50:00      |     8     0    10   44.4 |
-| EOS/BTC  |      36 |           0.08 |       0.00015304 |           1.53 | 3:34:00      |    16     0    20   44.4 |
-| ETC/BTC  |      26 |           0.37 |       0.00047576 |           4.75 | 6:14:00      |    11     0    15   42.3 |
-| ETH/BTC  |      33 |           0.30 |       0.00049856 |           4.98 | 7:31:00      |    16     0    17   48.5 |
-| IOTA/BTC |      32 |           0.03 |       0.00005444 |           0.54 | 3:12:00      |    14     0    18   43.8 |
-| LSK/BTC  |      15 |           1.75 |       0.00131413 |          13.13 | 2:58:00      |     6     0     9   40.0 |
-| LTC/BTC  |      32 |          -0.04 |      -0.00006886 |          -0.69 | 4:49:00      |    11     0    21   34.4 |
-| NANO/BTC |      17 |           1.26 |       0.00107058 |          10.70 | 1:55:00      |    10     0     7   58.5 |
-| NEO/BTC  |      23 |           0.82 |       0.00094936 |           9.48 | 2:59:00      |    10     0    13   43.5 |
-| REQ/BTC  |       9 |           1.17 |       0.00052734 |           5.27 | 3:47:00      |     4     0     5   44.4 |
-| XLM/BTC  |      16 |           1.22 |       0.00097800 |           9.77 | 3:15:00      |     7     0     9   43.8 |
-| XMR/BTC  |      23 |          -0.18 |      -0.00020696 |          -2.07 | 5:30:00      |    12     0    11   52.2 |
-| XRP/BTC  |      35 |           0.66 |       0.00114897 |          11.48 | 3:49:00      |    12     0    23   34.3 |
-| ZEC/BTC  |      22 |          -0.46 |      -0.00050971 |          -5.09 | 2:22:00      |     7     0    15   31.8 |
-| TOTAL    |     429 |           0.36 |       0.00762792 |          76.20 | 4:12:00      |   186     0   243   43.4 |
-============================================= LEFT OPEN TRADES REPORT =============================================
-| Pair     |  Entries |   Avg Profit % |   Tot Profit BTC |   Tot Profit % | Avg Duration   |  Win Draw Loss Win% |
-|:---------|---------:|---------------:|-----------------:|---------------:|:---------------|--------------------:|
-| ADA/BTC  |        1 |           0.89 |       0.00004434 |           0.44 | 6:00:00        |    1    0    0  100 |
-| LTC/BTC  |        1 |           0.68 |       0.00003421 |           0.34 | 2:00:00        |    1    0    0  100 |
-| TOTAL    |        2 |           0.78 |       0.00007855 |           0.78 | 4:00:00        |    2    0    0  100 |
-==================== EXIT REASON STATS ====================
+========================================================= BACKTESTING REPORT =========================================================
+| Pair     | Entries |   Avg Profit % |   Cum Profit % |   Tot Profit BTC |   Tot Profit % | Avg Duration |  Wins Draws Loss   Win%  |
+|:---------|--------:|---------------:|---------------:|-----------------:|---------------:|:-------------|-------------------------:|
+| ADA/BTC  |      35 |          -0.11 |          -3.88 |      -0.00019428 |          -1.94 | 4:35:00      |    14     0    21   40.0 |
+| ARK/BTC  |      11 |          -0.41 |          -4.52 |      -0.00022647 |          -2.26 | 2:03:00      |     3     0     8   27.3 |
+| BTS/BTC  |      32 |           0.31 |           9.78 |       0.00048938 |           4.89 | 5:05:00      |    18     0    14   56.2 |
+| DASH/BTC |      13 |          -0.08 |          -1.07 |      -0.00005343 |          -0.53 | 4:39:00      |     6     0     7   46.2 |
+| ENG/BTC  |      18 |           1.36 |          24.54 |       0.00122807 |          12.27 | 2:50:00      |     8     0    10   44.4 |
+| EOS/BTC  |      36 |           0.08 |           3.06 |       0.00015304 |           1.53 | 3:34:00      |    16     0    20   44.4 |
+| ETC/BTC  |      26 |           0.37 |           9.51 |       0.00047576 |           4.75 | 6:14:00      |    11     0    15   42.3 |
+| ETH/BTC  |      33 |           0.30 |           9.96 |       0.00049856 |           4.98 | 7:31:00      |    16     0    17   48.5 |
+| IOTA/BTC |      32 |           0.03 |           1.09 |       0.00005444 |           0.54 | 3:12:00      |    14     0    18   43.8 |
+| LSK/BTC  |      15 |           1.75 |          26.26 |       0.00131413 |          13.13 | 2:58:00      |     6     0     9   40.0 |
+| LTC/BTC  |      32 |          -0.04 |          -1.38 |      -0.00006886 |          -0.69 | 4:49:00      |    11     0    21   34.4 |
+| NANO/BTC |      17 |           1.26 |          21.39 |       0.00107058 |          10.70 | 1:55:00      |    10     0     7   58.5 |
+| NEO/BTC  |      23 |           0.82 |          18.97 |       0.00094936 |           9.48 | 2:59:00      |    10     0    13   43.5 |
+| REQ/BTC  |       9 |           1.17 |          10.54 |       0.00052734 |           5.27 | 3:47:00      |     4     0     5   44.4 |
+| XLM/BTC  |      16 |           1.22 |          19.54 |       0.00097800 |           9.77 | 3:15:00      |     7     0     9   43.8 |
+| XMR/BTC  |      23 |          -0.18 |          -4.13 |      -0.00020696 |          -2.07 | 5:30:00      |    12     0    11   52.2 |
+| XRP/BTC  |      35 |           0.66 |          22.96 |       0.00114897 |          11.48 | 3:49:00      |    12     0    23   34.3 |
+| ZEC/BTC  |      22 |          -0.46 |         -10.18 |      -0.00050971 |          -5.09 | 2:22:00      |     7     0    15   31.8 |
+| TOTAL    |     429 |           0.36 |         152.41 |       0.00762792 |          76.20 | 4:12:00      |   186     0   243   43.4 |
+========================================================= EXIT REASON STATS ==========================================================
 | Exit Reason        |   Exits |  Wins |  Draws |  Losses |
 |:-------------------|--------:|------:|-------:|--------:|
 | trailing_stop_loss |     205 |   150 |      0 |      55 |
 | stop_loss          |     166 |     0 |      0 |     166 |
 | exit_signal        |      56 |    36 |      0 |      20 |
 | force_exit         |       2 |     0 |      0 |       2 |
-
+====================================================== LEFT OPEN TRADES REPORT ======================================================
+| Pair     |  Entries |   Avg Profit % |   Cum Profit % |   Tot Profit BTC |   Tot Profit % | Avg Duration   |  Win Draw Loss Win% |
+|:---------|---------:|---------------:|---------------:|-----------------:|---------------:|:---------------|--------------------:|
+| ADA/BTC  |        1 |           0.89 |           0.89 |       0.00004434 |           0.44 | 6:00:00        |    1    0    0  100 |
+| LTC/BTC  |        1 |           0.68 |           0.68 |       0.00003421 |           0.34 | 2:00:00        |    1    0    0  100 |
+| TOTAL    |        2 |           0.78 |           1.57 |       0.00007855 |           0.78 | 4:00:00        |    2    0    0  100 |
 ================== SUMMARY METRICS ==================
 | Metric                      | Value               |
 |-----------------------------+---------------------|
@@ -301,11 +300,7 @@ A backtesting result will look like that:
 | Absolute profit             | 0.00762792 BTC      |
 | Total profit %              | 76.2%               |
 | CAGR %                      | 460.87%             |
-| Sortino                     | 1.88                |
-| Sharpe                      | 2.97                |
-| Calmar                      | 6.29                |
 | Profit factor               | 1.11                |
-| Expectancy (Ratio)          | -0.15 (-0.05)       |
 | Avg. stake amount           | 0.001      BTC      |
 | Total trade volume          | 0.429      BTC      |
 |                             |                     |
@@ -324,7 +319,6 @@ A backtesting result will look like that:
 | Days win/draw/lose          | 12 / 82 / 25        |
 | Avg. Duration Winners       | 4:23:00             |
 | Avg. Duration Loser         | 6:55:00             |
-| Max Consecutive Wins / Loss | 3 / 4               |
 | Rejected Entry signals      | 3089                |
 | Entry/Exit Timeouts         | 0 / 0               |
 | Canceled Trade Entries      | 34                  |
@@ -358,7 +352,7 @@ here:
 The bot has made `429` trades for an average duration of `4:12:00`, with a performance of `76.20%` (profit), that means it has
 earned a total of `0.00762792 BTC` starting with a capital of 0.01 BTC.
 
-The column `Avg Profit %` shows the average profit for all trades made.
+The column `Avg Profit %` shows the average profit for all trades made while the column `Cum Profit %` sums up all the profits/losses.
 The column `Tot Profit %` shows instead the total profit % in relation to the starting balance.
 In the above results, we have a starting balance of 0.01 BTC and an absolute profit of 0.00762792 BTC - so the `Tot Profit %` will be `(0.00762792 / 0.01) * 100 ~= 76.2%`.
 
@@ -406,11 +400,7 @@ It contains some useful key metrics about performance of your strategy on backte
 | Absolute profit             | 0.00762792 BTC      |
 | Total profit %              | 76.2%               |
 | CAGR %                      | 460.87%             |
-| Sortino                     | 1.88                |
-| Sharpe                      | 2.97                |
-| Calmar                      | 6.29                |
 | Profit factor               | 1.11                |
-| Expectancy (Ratio)          | -0.15 (-0.05)       |
 | Avg. stake amount           | 0.001      BTC      |
 | Total trade volume          | 0.429      BTC      |
 |                             |                     |
@@ -429,7 +419,6 @@ It contains some useful key metrics about performance of your strategy on backte
 | Days win/draw/lose          | 12 / 82 / 25        |
 | Avg. Duration Winners       | 4:23:00             |
 | Avg. Duration Loser         | 6:55:00             |
-| Max Consecutive Wins / Loss | 3 / 4               |
 | Rejected Entry signals      | 3089                |
 | Entry/Exit Timeouts         | 0 / 0               |
 | Canceled Trade Entries      | 34                  |
@@ -458,18 +447,14 @@ It contains some useful key metrics about performance of your strategy on backte
 - `Absolute profit`: Profit made in stake currency.
 - `Total profit %`: Total profit. Aligned to the `TOTAL` row's `Tot Profit %` from the first table. Calculated as `(End capital − Starting capital) / Starting capital`.
 - `CAGR %`: Compound annual growth rate.
-- `Sortino`: Annualized Sortino ratio.
-- `Sharpe`: Annualized Sharpe ratio.
-- `Calmar`: Annualized Calmar ratio.
 - `Profit factor`: profit / loss.
 - `Avg. stake amount`: Average stake amount, either `stake_amount` or the average when using dynamic stake amount.
 - `Total trade volume`: Volume generated on the exchange to reach the above profit.
-- `Best Pair` / `Worst Pair`: Best and worst performing pair, and it's corresponding `Tot Profit %`.
+- `Best Pair` / `Worst Pair`: Best and worst performing pair, and it's corresponding `Cum Profit %`.
 - `Best Trade` / `Worst Trade`: Biggest single winning trade and biggest single losing trade.
 - `Best day` / `Worst day`: Best and worst day based on daily profit.
 - `Days win/draw/lose`: Winning / Losing days (draws are usually days without closed trade).
 - `Avg. Duration Winners` / `Avg. Duration Loser`: Average durations for winning and losing trades.
-- `Max Consecutive Wins / Loss`: Maximum consecutive wins/losses in a row.
 - `Rejected Entry signals`: Trade entry signals that could not be acted upon due to `max_open_trades` being reached.
 - `Entry/Exit Timeouts`: Entry/exit orders which did not fill (only applicable if custom pricing is used).
 - `Canceled Trade Entries`: Number of trades that have been canceled by user request via `adjust_entry_price`.
@@ -537,14 +522,13 @@ Since backtesting lacks some detailed information about what happens within a ca
 - ROI
   - exits are compared to high - but the ROI value is used (e.g. ROI = 2%, high=5% - so the exit will be at 2%)
   - exits are never "below the candle", so a ROI of 2% may result in a exit at 2.4% if low was at 2.4% profit
-  - ROI entries which came into effect on the triggering candle (e.g. `120: 0.02` for 1h candles, from `60: 0.05`) will use the candle's open as exit rate
-  - Force-exits caused by `<N>=-1` ROI entries use low as exit value, unless N falls on the candle open (e.g. `120: -1` for 1h candles)
+  - Forceexits caused by `<N>=-1` ROI entries use low as exit value, unless N falls on the candle open (e.g. `120: -1` for 1h candles)
 - Stoploss exits happen exactly at stoploss price, even if low was lower, but the loss will be `2 * fees` higher than the stoploss price
 - Stoploss is evaluated before ROI within one candle. So you can often see more trades with the `stoploss` exit reason comparing to the results obtained with the same strategy in the Dry Run/Live Trade modes
 - Low happens before high for stoploss, protecting capital first
 - Trailing stoploss
   - Trailing Stoploss is only adjusted if it's below the candle's low (otherwise it would be triggered)
-  - On trade entry candles that trigger trailing stoploss, the "minimum offset" (`stop_positive_offset`) is assumed (instead of high) - and the stop is calculated from this point. This rule is NOT applicable to custom-stoploss scenarios, since there's no information about the stoploss logic available.
+  - On trade entry candles that trigger trailing stoploss, the "minimum offset" (`stop_positive_offset`) is assumed (instead of high) - and the stop is calculated from this point
   - High happens first - adjusting stoploss
   - Low uses the adjusted stoploss (so exits with large high-low difference are backtested correctly)
   - ROI applies before trailing-stop, ensuring profits are "top-capped" at ROI if both ROI and trailing stop applies
@@ -562,8 +546,8 @@ In addition to the above assumptions, strategy authors should carefully read the
 
 ### Trading limits in backtesting
 
-Exchanges have certain trading limits, like minimum (and maximum) base currency, or minimum/maximum stake (quote) currency.
-These limits are usually listed in the exchange documentation as "trading rules" or similar and can be quite different between different pairs.
+Exchanges have certain trading limits, like minimum base currency, or minimum stake (quote) currency.
+These limits are usually listed in the exchange documentation as "trading rules" or similar.
 
 Backtesting (as well as live and dry-run) does honor these limits, and will ensure that a stoploss can be placed below this value - so the value will be slightly higher than what the exchange specifies.
 Freqtrade has however no information about historic limits.
@@ -599,8 +583,7 @@ To utilize this, you can append `--timeframe-detail 5m` to your regular backtest
 freqtrade backtesting --strategy AwesomeStrategy --timeframe 1h --timeframe-detail 5m
 ```
 
-This will load 1h data as well as 5m data for the timeframe. The strategy will be analyzed with the 1h timeframe, and Entry orders will only be placed at the main timeframe, however Order fills and exit signals will be evaluated at the 5m candle, simulating intra-candle movements.
-
+This will load 1h data as well as 5m data for the timeframe. The strategy will be analyzed with the 1h timeframe - and for every "open trade candle" (candles where a trade is open) the 5m data will be used to simulate intra-candle movements.
 All callback functions (`custom_exit()`, `custom_stoploss()`, ... ) will be running for each 5m candle once the trade is opened (so 12 times in the above example of 1h timeframe, and 5m detailed timeframe).
 
 `--timeframe-detail` must be smaller than the original timeframe, otherwise backtesting will fail to start.
@@ -618,22 +601,22 @@ To compare multiple strategies, a list of Strategies can be provided to backtest
 This is limited to 1 timeframe value per run. However, data is only loaded once from disk so if you have multiple
 strategies you'd like to compare, this will give a nice runtime boost.
 
-All listed Strategies need to be in the same directory, unless also `--recursive-strategy-search` is specified, where sub-directories within the strategy directory are also considered.
+All listed Strategies need to be in the same directory.
 
 ``` bash
 freqtrade backtesting --timerange 20180401-20180410 --timeframe 5m --strategy-list Strategy001 Strategy002 --export trades
 ```
 
-This will save the results to `user_data/backtest_results/backtest-result-<datetime>.json`, including results for both `Strategy001` and `Strategy002`.
+This will save the results to `user_data/backtest_results/backtest-result-<strategy>.json`, injecting the strategy-name into the target filename.
 There will be an additional table comparing win/losses of the different strategies (identical to the "Total" row in the first table).
 Detailed output for all strategies one after the other will be available, so make sure to scroll up to see the details per strategy.
 
 ```
-================================================== STRATEGY SUMMARY ===================================================================
-| Strategy    |  Entries |   Avg Profit % |   Tot Profit BTC |   Tot Profit % | Avg Duration   |  Wins |  Draws | Losses | Drawdown % |
-|:------------|---------:|---------------:|-----------------:|---------------:|:---------------|------:|-------:|-------:|-----------:|
-| Strategy1   |      429 |           0.36 |       0.00762792 |          76.20 | 4:12:00        |   186 |      0 |    243 |       45.2 |
-| Strategy2   |     1487 |          -0.13 |      -0.00988917 |         -98.79 | 4:43:00        |   662 |      0 |    825 |     241.68 |
+=========================================================== STRATEGY SUMMARY ===========================================================================
+| Strategy    |  Entries |   Avg Profit % |   Cum Profit % |   Tot Profit BTC |   Tot Profit % | Avg Duration   |  Wins |  Draws | Losses | Drawdown % |
+|:------------|---------:|---------------:|---------------:|-----------------:|---------------:|:---------------|------:|-------:|-------:|-----------:|
+| Strategy1   |      429 |           0.36 |         152.41 |       0.00762792 |          76.20 | 4:12:00        |   186 |      0 |    243 |       45.2 |
+| Strategy2   |     1487 |          -0.13 |        -197.58 |      -0.00988917 |         -98.79 | 4:43:00        |   662 |      0 |    825 |     241.68 |
 ```
 
 ## Next step

docs/bot-basics.md

@@ -7,32 +7,16 @@ This page provides you some basic concepts on how Freqtrade works and operates.
 * **Strategy**: Your trading strategy, telling the bot what to do.
 * **Trade**: Open position.
 * **Open Order**: Order which is currently placed on the exchange, and is not yet complete.
-* **Pair**: Tradable pair, usually in the format of Base/Quote (e.g. `XRP/USDT` for spot, `XRP/USDT:USDT` for futures).
+* **Pair**: Tradable pair, usually in the format of Base/Quote (e.g. XRP/USDT).
 * **Timeframe**: Candle length to use (e.g. `"5m"`, `"1h"`, ...).
 * **Indicators**: Technical indicators (SMA, EMA, RSI, ...).
 * **Limit order**: Limit orders which execute at the defined limit price or better.
 * **Market order**: Guaranteed to fill, may move price depending on the order size.
-* **Current Profit**: Currently pending (unrealized) profit for this trade. This is mainly used throughout the bot and UI.
-* **Realized Profit**: Already realized profit. Only relevant in combination with [partial exits](strategy-callbacks.md#adjust-trade-position) - which also explains the calculation logic for this.
-* **Total Profit**: Combined realized and unrealized profit. The relative number (%) is calculated against the total investment in this trade.
 
 ## Fee handling
 
 All profit calculations of Freqtrade include fees. For Backtesting / Hyperopt / Dry-run modes, the exchange default fee is used (lowest tier on the exchange). For live operations, fees are used as applied by the exchange (this includes BNB rebates etc.).
 
-## Pair naming
-
-Freqtrade follows the [ccxt naming convention](https://docs.ccxt.com/#/README?id=consistency-of-base-and-quote-currencies) for currencies.
-Using the wrong naming convention in the wrong market will usually result in the bot not recognizing the pair, usually resulting in errors like "this pair is not available".
-
-### Spot pair naming
-
-For spot pairs, naming will be `base/quote` (e.g. `ETH/USDT`).
-
-### Futures pair naming
-
-For futures pairs, naming will be `base/quote:settle` (e.g. `ETH/USDT:USDT`).
-
 ## Bot execution logic
 
 Starting freqtrade in dry-run or live mode (using `freqtrade trade`) will start the bot and start the bot iteration loop.
@@ -49,12 +33,10 @@ By default, the bot loop runs every few seconds (`internals.process_throttle_sec
   * Call `populate_indicators()`
   * Call `populate_entry_trend()`
   * Call `populate_exit_trend()`
-* Update trades open order state from exchange.
-  * Call `order_filled()` strategy callback for filled orders.
-  * Check timeouts for open orders.
-    * Calls `check_entry_timeout()` strategy callback for open entry orders.
-    * Calls `check_exit_timeout()` strategy callback for open exit orders.
-    * Calls `adjust_entry_price()` strategy callback for open entry orders.
+* Check timeouts for open orders.
+  * Calls `check_entry_timeout()` strategy callback for open entry orders.
+  * Calls `check_exit_timeout()` strategy callback for open exit orders.
+  * Calls `adjust_entry_price()` strategy callback for open entry orders.
 * Verifies existing positions and eventually places exit orders.
   * Considers stoploss, ROI and exit-signal, `custom_exit()` and `custom_stoploss()`.
   * Determine exit-price based on `exit_pricing` configuration setting or by using the `custom_exit_price()` callback.
@@ -75,10 +57,10 @@ This loop will be repeated again and again until the bot is stopped.
 
 * Load historic data for configured pairlist.
 * Calls `bot_start()` once.
+* Calls `bot_loop_start()` once.
 * Calculate indicators (calls `populate_indicators()` once per pair).
 * Calculate entry / exit signals (calls `populate_entry_trend()` and `populate_exit_trend()` once per pair).
 * Loops per candle simulating entry and exit points.
-  * Calls `bot_loop_start()` strategy callback.
   * Check for Order timeouts, either via the `unfilledtimeout` configuration, or via `check_entry_timeout()` / `check_exit_timeout()` strategy callbacks.
   * Calls `adjust_entry_price()` strategy callback for open entry orders.
   * Check for trade entry signals (`enter_long` / `enter_short` columns).
@@ -87,15 +69,9 @@ This loop will be repeated again and again until the bot is stopped.
   * In Margin and Futures mode, `leverage()` strategy callback is called to determine the desired leverage.
   * Determine stake size by calling the `custom_stake_amount()` callback.
   * Check position adjustments for open trades if enabled and call `adjust_trade_position()` to determine if an additional order is requested.
-  * Call `order_filled()` strategy callback for filled entry orders.
   * Call `custom_stoploss()` and `custom_exit()` to find custom exit points.
   * For exits based on exit-signal, custom-exit and partial exits: Call `custom_exit_price()` to determine exit price (Prices are moved to be within the closing candle).
-  * Call `order_filled()` strategy callback for filled exit orders.
 * Generate backtest report output
 
 !!! Note
     Both Backtesting and Hyperopt include exchange default Fees in the calculation. Custom fees can be passed to backtesting / hyperopt by specifying the `--fee` argument.
-
-!!! Warning "Callback call frequency"
-    Backtesting will call each callback at max. once per candle (`--timeframe-detail` modifies this behavior to once per detailed candle).
-    Most callbacks will be called once per iteration in live (usually every ~5s) - which can cause backtesting mismatches.

docs/bot-usage.md

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 This page explains the different parameters of the bot and how to run it.
 
 !!! Note
-    If you've used `setup.sh`, don't forget to activate your virtual environment (`source .venv/bin/activate`) before running freqtrade commands.
+    If you've used `setup.sh`, don't forget to activate your virtual environment (`source .env/bin/activate`) before running freqtrade commands.
 
 !!! Warning "Up-to-date clock"
     The clock on the system running the bot must be accurate, synchronized to a NTP server frequently enough to avoid problems with communication to the exchanges.

docs/configuration.md

@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@ Per default, the bot loads the configuration from the `config.json` file, locate
 
 You can specify a different configuration file used by the bot with the `-c/--config` command-line option.
 
-If you used the [Quick start](docker_quickstart.md#docker-quick-start) method for installing
+If you used the [Quick start](installation.md/#quick-start) method for installing
 the bot, the installation script should have already created the default configuration file (`config.json`) for you.
 
-If the default configuration file is not created we recommend to use `freqtrade new-config --config user_data/config.json` to generate a basic configuration file.
+If the default configuration file is not created we recommend to use `freqtrade new-config --config config.json` to generate a basic configuration file.
 
 The Freqtrade configuration file is to be written in JSON format.
 
@@ -49,13 +49,6 @@ FREQTRADE__EXCHANGE__SECRET=<yourExchangeSecret>
 !!! Note
     Environment variables detected are logged at startup - so if you can't find why a value is not what you think it should be based on the configuration, make sure it's not loaded from an environment variable.
 
-!!! Tip "Validate combined result"
-    You can use the [show-config subcommand](utils.md#show-config) to see the final, combined configuration.
-
-??? Warning "Loading sequence"
-    Environment variables are loaded after the initial configuration. As such, you cannot provide the path to the configuration through environment variables. Please use `--config path/to/config.json` for that.
-    This also applies to user_dir to some degree. while the user directory can be set through environment variables - the configuration will **not** be loaded from that location.
-
 ### Multiple configuration files
 
 Multiple configuration files can be specified and used by the bot or the bot can read its configuration parameters from the process standard input stream.
@@ -63,9 +56,6 @@ Multiple configuration files can be specified and used by the bot or the bot can
 You can specify additional configuration files in `add_config_files`. Files specified in this parameter will be loaded and merged with the initial config file. The files are resolved relative to the initial configuration file.
 This is similar to using multiple `--config` parameters, but simpler in usage as you don't have to specify all files for all commands.
 
-!!! Tip "Validate combined result"
-    You can use the [show-config subcommand](utils.md#show-config) to see the final, combined configuration.
-
 !!! Tip "Use multiple configuration files to keep secrets secret"
     You can use a 2nd configuration file containing your secrets. That way you can share your "primary" configuration file, while still keeping your API keys for yourself.
     The 2nd file should only specify what you intend to override.
@@ -144,11 +134,11 @@ Mandatory parameters are marked as **Required**, which means that they are requi
 
 |  Parameter | Description |
 |------------|-------------|
-| `max_open_trades` | **Required.** Number of open trades your bot is allowed to have. Only one open trade per pair is possible, so the length of your pairlist is another limitation that can apply. If -1 then it is ignored (i.e. potentially unlimited open trades, limited by the pairlist). [More information below](#configuring-amount-per-trade). [Strategy Override](#parameters-in-the-strategy).<br> **Datatype:** Positive integer or -1.
+| `max_open_trades` | **Required.** Number of open trades your bot is allowed to have. Only one open trade per pair is possible, so the length of your pairlist is another limitation that can apply. If -1 then it is ignored (i.e. potentially unlimited open trades, limited by the pairlist). [More information below](#configuring-amount-per-trade).<br> **Datatype:** Positive integer or -1.
 | `stake_currency` | **Required.** Crypto-currency used for trading. <br> **Datatype:** String
 | `stake_amount` | **Required.** Amount of crypto-currency your bot will use for each trade. Set it to `"unlimited"` to allow the bot to use all available balance. [More information below](#configuring-amount-per-trade). <br> **Datatype:** Positive float or `"unlimited"`.
 | `tradable_balance_ratio` | Ratio of the total account balance the bot is allowed to trade. [More information below](#configuring-amount-per-trade). <br>*Defaults to `0.99` 99%).*<br> **Datatype:** Positive float between `0.1` and `1.0`.
-| `available_capital` | Available starting capital for the bot. Useful when running multiple bots on the same exchange account. [More information below](#configuring-amount-per-trade). <br> **Datatype:** Positive float.
+| `available_capital` | Available starting capital for the bot. Useful when running multiple bots on the same exchange account.[More information below](#configuring-amount-per-trade). <br> **Datatype:** Positive float.
 | `amend_last_stake_amount` | Use reduced last stake amount if necessary. [More information below](#configuring-amount-per-trade). <br>*Defaults to `false`.* <br> **Datatype:** Boolean
 | `last_stake_amount_min_ratio` | Defines minimum stake amount that has to be left and executed. Applies only to the last stake amount when it's amended to a reduced value (i.e. if `amend_last_stake_amount` is set to `true`). [More information below](#configuring-amount-per-trade). <br>*Defaults to `0.5`.* <br> **Datatype:** Float (as ratio)
 | `amount_reserve_percent` | Reserve some amount in min pair stake amount. The bot will reserve `amount_reserve_percent` + stoploss value when calculating min pair stake amount in order to avoid possible trade refusals. <br>*Defaults to `0.05` (5%).* <br> **Datatype:** Positive Float as ratio.
@@ -165,29 +155,29 @@ Mandatory parameters are marked as **Required**, which means that they are requi
 | `trailing_stop_positive_offset` | Offset on when to apply `trailing_stop_positive`. Percentage value which should be positive. More details in the [stoploss documentation](stoploss.md#trailing-stop-loss-only-once-the-trade-has-reached-a-certain-offset). [Strategy Override](#parameters-in-the-strategy). <br>*Defaults to `0.0` (no offset).* <br> **Datatype:** Float
 | `trailing_only_offset_is_reached` | Only apply trailing stoploss when the offset is reached. [stoploss documentation](stoploss.md). [Strategy Override](#parameters-in-the-strategy). <br>*Defaults to `false`.*  <br> **Datatype:** Boolean
 | `fee` | Fee used during backtesting / dry-runs. Should normally not be configured, which has freqtrade fall back to the exchange default fee. Set as ratio (e.g. 0.001 = 0.1%). Fee is applied twice for each trade, once when buying, once when selling. <br> **Datatype:** Float (as ratio)
-| `futures_funding_rate` | User-specified funding rate to be used when historical funding rates are not available from the exchange. This does not overwrite real historical rates. It is recommended that this be set to 0 unless you are testing a specific coin and you understand how the funding rate will affect freqtrade's profit calculations. [More information here](leverage.md#unavailable-funding-rates) <br>*Defaults to `None`.*<br> **Datatype:** Float
+| `futures_funding_rate` | User-specified funding rate to be used when historical funding rates are not available from the exchange. This does not overwrite real historical rates. It is recommended that this be set to 0 unless you are testing a specific coin and you understand how the funding rate will affect freqtrade's profit calculations. [More information here](leverage.md#unavailable-funding-rates) <br>*Defaults to None.*<br> **Datatype:** Float
 | `trading_mode` | Specifies if you want to trade regularly, trade with leverage, or trade contracts whose prices are derived from matching cryptocurrency prices. [leverage documentation](leverage.md). <br>*Defaults to `"spot"`.*  <br> **Datatype:** String
 | `margin_mode` | When trading with leverage, this determines if the collateral owned by the trader will be shared or isolated to each trading pair [leverage documentation](leverage.md). <br> **Datatype:** String
 | `liquidation_buffer` | A ratio specifying how large of a safety net to place between the liquidation price and the stoploss to prevent a position from reaching the liquidation price [leverage documentation](leverage.md). <br>*Defaults to `0.05`.*  <br> **Datatype:** Float
 | | **Unfilled timeout**
 | `unfilledtimeout.entry` | **Required.** How long (in minutes or seconds) the bot will wait for an unfilled entry order to complete, after which the order will be cancelled and repeated at current (new) price, as long as there is a signal. [Strategy Override](#parameters-in-the-strategy).<br> **Datatype:** Integer
 | `unfilledtimeout.exit` | **Required.** How long (in minutes or seconds) the bot will wait for an unfilled exit order to complete, after which the order will be cancelled and repeated at current (new) price, as long as there is a signal. [Strategy Override](#parameters-in-the-strategy).<br> **Datatype:** Integer
-| `unfilledtimeout.unit` | Unit to use in unfilledtimeout setting. Note: If you set unfilledtimeout.unit to "seconds", "internals.process_throttle_secs" must be inferior or equal to timeout [Strategy Override](#parameters-in-the-strategy). <br> *Defaults to `"minutes"`.* <br> **Datatype:** String
+| `unfilledtimeout.unit` | Unit to use in unfilledtimeout setting. Note: If you set unfilledtimeout.unit to "seconds", "internals.process_throttle_secs" must be inferior or equal to timeout [Strategy Override](#parameters-in-the-strategy). <br> *Defaults to `minutes`.* <br> **Datatype:** String
 | `unfilledtimeout.exit_timeout_count` | How many times can exit orders time out. Once this number of timeouts is reached, an emergency exit is triggered. 0 to disable and allow unlimited order cancels. [Strategy Override](#parameters-in-the-strategy).<br>*Defaults to `0`.* <br> **Datatype:** Integer
 | | **Pricing**
-| `entry_pricing.price_side` | Select the side of the spread the bot should look at to get the entry rate. [More information below](#entry-price).<br> *Defaults to `"same"`.* <br> **Datatype:** String (either `ask`, `bid`, `same` or `other`).
+| `entry_pricing.price_side` | Select the side of the spread the bot should look at to get the entry rate. [More information below](#buy-price-side).<br> *Defaults to `same`.* <br> **Datatype:** String (either `ask`, `bid`, `same` or `other`).
 | `entry_pricing.price_last_balance` | **Required.** Interpolate the bidding price. More information [below](#entry-price-without-orderbook-enabled).
-| `entry_pricing.use_order_book` | Enable entering using the rates in [Order Book Entry](#entry-price-with-orderbook-enabled). <br> *Defaults to `true`.*<br> **Datatype:** Boolean
+| `entry_pricing.use_order_book` | Enable entering using the rates in [Order Book Entry](#entry-price-with-orderbook-enabled). <br> *Defaults to `True`.*<br> **Datatype:** Boolean
 | `entry_pricing.order_book_top` | Bot will use the top N rate in Order Book "price_side" to enter a trade. I.e. a value of 2 will allow the bot to pick the 2nd entry in [Order Book Entry](#entry-price-with-orderbook-enabled). <br>*Defaults to `1`.*  <br> **Datatype:** Positive Integer
 | `entry_pricing. check_depth_of_market.enabled` | Do not enter if the difference of buy orders and sell orders is met in Order Book. [Check market depth](#check-depth-of-market). <br>*Defaults to `false`.* <br> **Datatype:** Boolean
 | `entry_pricing. check_depth_of_market.bids_to_ask_delta` | The difference ratio of buy orders and sell orders found in Order Book. A value below 1 means sell order size is greater, while value greater than 1 means buy order size is higher. [Check market depth](#check-depth-of-market) <br> *Defaults to `0`.*  <br> **Datatype:** Float (as ratio)
-| `exit_pricing.price_side` | Select the side of the spread the bot should look at to get the exit rate. [More information below](#exit-price-side).<br> *Defaults to `"same"`.* <br> **Datatype:** String (either `ask`, `bid`, `same` or `other`).
+| `exit_pricing.price_side` | Select the side of the spread the bot should look at to get the exit rate. [More information below](#exit-price-side).<br> *Defaults to `same`.* <br> **Datatype:** String (either `ask`, `bid`, `same` or `other`).
 | `exit_pricing.price_last_balance` | Interpolate the exiting price. More information [below](#exit-price-without-orderbook-enabled).
-| `exit_pricing.use_order_book` | Enable exiting of open trades using [Order Book Exit](#exit-price-with-orderbook-enabled). <br> *Defaults to `true`.*<br> **Datatype:** Boolean
+| `exit_pricing.use_order_book` | Enable exiting of open trades using [Order Book Exit](#exit-price-with-orderbook-enabled). <br> *Defaults to `True`.*<br> **Datatype:** Boolean
 | `exit_pricing.order_book_top` | Bot will use the top N rate in Order Book "price_side" to exit. I.e. a value of 2 will allow the bot to pick the 2nd ask rate in [Order Book Exit](#exit-price-with-orderbook-enabled)<br>*Defaults to `1`.* <br> **Datatype:** Positive Integer
 | `custom_price_max_distance_ratio` | Configure maximum distance ratio between current and custom entry or exit price. <br>*Defaults to `0.02` 2%).*<br> **Datatype:** Positive float
 | | **TODO**
-| `use_exit_signal` | Use exit signals produced by the strategy in addition to the `minimal_roi`. <br>Setting this to false disables the usage of `"exit_long"` and `"exit_short"` columns. Has no influence on other exit methods (Stoploss, ROI, callbacks). [Strategy Override](#parameters-in-the-strategy). <br>*Defaults to `true`.* <br> **Datatype:** Boolean
+| `use_exit_signal` | Use exit signals produced by the strategy in addition to the `minimal_roi`. [Strategy Override](#parameters-in-the-strategy). <br>*Defaults to `true`.* <br> **Datatype:** Boolean
 | `exit_profit_only` | Wait until the bot reaches `exit_profit_offset` before taking an exit decision. [Strategy Override](#parameters-in-the-strategy). <br>*Defaults to `false`.* <br> **Datatype:** Boolean
 | `exit_profit_offset` | Exit-signal is only active above this value. Only active in combination with `exit_profit_only=True`. [Strategy Override](#parameters-in-the-strategy). <br>*Defaults to `0.0`.* <br> **Datatype:** Float (as ratio)
 | `ignore_roi_if_entry_signal` | Do not exit if the entry signal is still active. This setting takes preference over `minimal_roi` and `use_exit_signal`. [Strategy Override](#parameters-in-the-strategy). <br>*Defaults to `false`.* <br> **Datatype:** Boolean
@@ -198,6 +188,7 @@ Mandatory parameters are marked as **Required**, which means that they are requi
 | `max_entry_position_adjustment` | Maximum additional order(s) for each open trade on top of the first entry Order. Set it to `-1` for unlimited additional orders. [More information here](strategy-callbacks.md#adjust-trade-position). <br> [Strategy Override](#parameters-in-the-strategy). <br>*Defaults to `-1`.*<br> **Datatype:** Positive Integer or -1
 | | **Exchange**
 | `exchange.name` | **Required.** Name of the exchange class to use. [List below](#user-content-what-values-for-exchangename). <br> **Datatype:** String
+| `exchange.sandbox` | Use the 'sandbox' version of the exchange, where the exchange provides a sandbox for risk-free integration. See [here](sandbox-testing.md) in more details.<br> **Datatype:** Boolean
 | `exchange.key` | API key to use for the exchange. Only required when you are in production mode.<br>**Keep it in secret, do not disclose publicly.** <br> **Datatype:** String
 | `exchange.secret` | API secret to use for the exchange. Only required when you are in production mode.<br>**Keep it in secret, do not disclose publicly.** <br> **Datatype:** String
 | `exchange.password` | API password to use for the exchange. Only required when you are in production mode and for exchanges that use password for API requests.<br>**Keep it in secret, do not disclose publicly.** <br> **Datatype:** String
@@ -208,10 +199,10 @@ Mandatory parameters are marked as **Required**, which means that they are requi
 | `exchange.ccxt_sync_config` | Additional CCXT parameters passed to the regular (sync) ccxt instance. Parameters may differ from exchange to exchange and are documented in the [ccxt documentation](https://ccxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manual.html#instantiation) <br> **Datatype:** Dict
 | `exchange.ccxt_async_config` | Additional CCXT parameters passed to the async ccxt instance. Parameters may differ from exchange to exchange  and are documented in the [ccxt documentation](https://ccxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manual.html#instantiation) <br> **Datatype:** Dict
 | `exchange.markets_refresh_interval` | The interval in minutes in which markets are reloaded. <br>*Defaults to `60` minutes.* <br> **Datatype:** Positive Integer
-| `exchange.skip_pair_validation` | Skip pairlist validation on startup.<br>*Defaults to `false`*<br> **Datatype:** Boolean
-| `exchange.skip_open_order_update` | Skips open order updates on startup should the exchange cause problems. Only relevant in live conditions.<br>*Defaults to `false`*<br> **Datatype:** Boolean
+| `exchange.skip_pair_validation` | Skip pairlist validation on startup.<br>*Defaults to `false`<br> **Datatype:** Boolean
+| `exchange.skip_open_order_update` | Skips open order updates on startup should the exchange cause problems. Only relevant in live conditions.<br>*Defaults to `false`<br> **Datatype:** Boolean
 | `exchange.unknown_fee_rate` | Fallback value to use when calculating trading fees. This can be useful for exchanges which have fees in non-tradable currencies. The value provided here will be multiplied with the "fee cost".<br>*Defaults to `None`<br> **Datatype:** float
-| `exchange.log_responses` | Log relevant exchange responses. For debug mode only - use with care.<br>*Defaults to `false`*<br> **Datatype:** Boolean
+| `exchange.log_responses` | Log relevant exchange responses. For debug mode only - use with care.<br>*Defaults to `false`<br> **Datatype:** Boolean
 | `experimental.block_bad_exchanges` | Block exchanges known to not work with freqtrade. Leave on default unless you want to test if that exchange works now. <br>*Defaults to `true`.* <br> **Datatype:** Boolean
 | | **Plugins**
 | `edge.*` | Please refer to [edge configuration document](edge.md) for detailed explanation of all possible configuration options.
@@ -222,20 +213,18 @@ Mandatory parameters are marked as **Required**, which means that they are requi
 | `telegram.token` | Your Telegram bot token. Only required if `telegram.enabled` is `true`. <br>**Keep it in secret, do not disclose publicly.** <br> **Datatype:** String
 | `telegram.chat_id` | Your personal Telegram account id. Only required if `telegram.enabled` is `true`. <br>**Keep it in secret, do not disclose publicly.** <br> **Datatype:** String
 | `telegram.balance_dust_level` | Dust-level (in stake currency) - currencies with a balance below this will not be shown by `/balance`. <br> **Datatype:** float
-| `telegram.reload` | Allow "reload" buttons on telegram messages. <br>*Defaults to `true`.<br> **Datatype:** boolean
+| `telegram.reload` | Allow "reload" buttons on telegram messages. <br>*Defaults to `True`.<br> **Datatype:** boolean
 | `telegram.notification_settings.*` | Detailed notification settings. Refer to the [telegram documentation](telegram-usage.md) for details.<br> **Datatype:** dictionary
-| `telegram.allow_custom_messages` | Enable the sending of Telegram messages from strategies via the dataprovider.send_msg() function. <br> **Datatype:** Boolean
 | | **Webhook**
 | `webhook.enabled` | Enable usage of Webhook notifications <br> **Datatype:** Boolean
 | `webhook.url` | URL for the webhook. Only required if `webhook.enabled` is `true`. See the [webhook documentation](webhook-config.md) for more details. <br> **Datatype:** String
-| `webhook.entry` | Payload to send on entry. Only required if `webhook.enabled` is `true`. See the [webhook documentation](webhook-config.md) for more details. <br> **Datatype:** String
-| `webhook.entry_cancel` | Payload to send on entry order cancel. Only required if `webhook.enabled` is `true`. See the [webhook documentation](webhook-config.md) for more details. <br> **Datatype:** String
-| `webhook.entry_fill` | Payload to send on entry order filled. Only required if `webhook.enabled` is `true`. See the [webhook documentation](webhook-config.md) for more details. <br> **Datatype:** String
-| `webhook.exit` | Payload to send on exit. Only required if `webhook.enabled` is `true`. See the [webhook documentation](webhook-config.md) for more details. <br> **Datatype:** String
-| `webhook.exit_cancel` | Payload to send on exit order cancel. Only required if `webhook.enabled` is `true`. See the [webhook documentation](webhook-config.md) for more details. <br> **Datatype:** String
-| `webhook.exit_fill` | Payload to send on exit order filled. Only required if `webhook.enabled` is `true`. See the [webhook documentation](webhook-config.md) for more details. <br> **Datatype:** String
-| `webhook.status` | Payload to send on status calls. Only required if `webhook.enabled` is `true`. See the [webhook documentation](webhook-config.md) for more details. <br> **Datatype:** String
-| `webhook.allow_custom_messages` | Enable the sending of Webhook messages from strategies via the dataprovider.send_msg() function. <br> **Datatype:** Boolean
+| `webhook.webhookentry` | Payload to send on entry. Only required if `webhook.enabled` is `true`. See the [webhook documentation](webhook-config.md) for more details. <br> **Datatype:** String
+| `webhook.webhookentrycancel` | Payload to send on entry order cancel. Only required if `webhook.enabled` is `true`. See the [webhook documentation](webhook-config.md) for more details. <br> **Datatype:** String
+| `webhook.webhookentryfill` | Payload to send on entry order filled. Only required if `webhook.enabled` is `true`. See the [webhook documentation](webhook-config.md) for more details. <br> **Datatype:** String
+| `webhook.webhookexit` | Payload to send on exit. Only required if `webhook.enabled` is `true`. See the [webhook documentation](webhook-config.md) for more details. <br> **Datatype:** String
+| `webhook.webhookexitcancel` | Payload to send on exit order cancel. Only required if `webhook.enabled` is `true`. See the [webhook documentation](webhook-config.md) for more details. <br> **Datatype:** String
+| `webhook.webhookexitfill` | Payload to send on exit order filled. Only required if `webhook.enabled` is `true`. See the [webhook documentation](webhook-config.md) for more details. <br> **Datatype:** String
+| `webhook.webhookstatus` | Payload to send on status calls. Only required if `webhook.enabled` is `true`. See the [webhook documentation](webhook-config.md) for more details. <br> **Datatype:** String
 | | **Rest API / FreqUI / Producer-Consumer**
 | `api_server.enabled` | Enable usage of API Server. See the [API Server documentation](rest-api.md) for more details. <br> **Datatype:** Boolean
 | `api_server.listen_ip_address` | Bind IP address. See the [API Server documentation](rest-api.md) for more details. <br> **Datatype:** IPv4
@@ -260,9 +249,8 @@ Mandatory parameters are marked as **Required**, which means that they are requi
 | `db_url` | Declares database URL to use. NOTE: This defaults to `sqlite:///tradesv3.dryrun.sqlite` if `dry_run` is `true`, and to `sqlite:///tradesv3.sqlite` for production instances. <br> **Datatype:** String, SQLAlchemy connect string
 | `logfile` | Specifies logfile name. Uses a rolling strategy for log file rotation for 10 files with the 1MB limit per file. <br> **Datatype:** String
 | `add_config_files` | Additional config files. These files will be loaded and merged with the current config file. The files are resolved relative to the initial file.<br> *Defaults to `[]`*. <br> **Datatype:** List of strings
-| `dataformat_ohlcv` | Data format to use to store historical candle (OHLCV) data. <br> *Defaults to `feather`*. <br> **Datatype:** String
-| `dataformat_trades` | Data format to use to store historical trades data. <br> *Defaults to `feather`*. <br> **Datatype:** String
-| `reduce_df_footprint` | Recast all numeric columns to float32/int32, with the objective of reducing ram/disk usage (and decreasing train/inference timing in FreqAI). (Currently only affects FreqAI use-cases) <br> **Datatype:** Boolean. <br> Default: `False`.
+| `dataformat_ohlcv` | Data format to use to store historical candle (OHLCV) data. <br> *Defaults to `json`*. <br> **Datatype:** String
+| `dataformat_trades` | Data format to use to store historical trades data. <br> *Defaults to `jsongz`*. <br> **Datatype:** String
 
 ### Parameters in the strategy
 
@@ -272,7 +260,6 @@ Values set in the configuration file always overwrite values set in the strategy
 * `minimal_roi`
 * `timeframe`
 * `stoploss`
-* `max_open_trades`
 * `trailing_stop`
 * `trailing_stop_positive`
 * `trailing_stop_positive_offset`
@@ -331,13 +318,11 @@ For example, if you have 10 ETH available in your wallet on the exchange and `tr
 To fully utilize compounding profits when using multiple bots on the same exchange account, you'll want to limit each bot to a certain starting balance.
 This can be accomplished by setting `available_capital` to the desired starting balance.
 
-Assuming your account has 10000 USDT and you want to run 2 different strategies on this exchange.
+Assuming your account has 10.000 USDT and you want to run 2 different strategies on this exchange.
 You'd set `available_capital=5000` - granting each bot an initial capital of 5000 USDT.
 The bot will then split this starting balance equally into `max_open_trades` buckets.
 Profitable trades will result in increased stake-sizes for this bot - without affecting the stake-sizes of the other bot.
 
-Adjusting `available_capital` requires reloading the configuration to take effect. Adjusting the `available_capital` adds the difference between the previous `available_capital` and the new `available_capital`. Decreasing the available capital when trades are open doesn't exit the trades. The difference is returned to the wallet when the trades conclude. The outcome of this differs depending on the price movement between the adjustment and exiting the trades.
-
 !!! Warning "Incompatible with `tradable_balance_ratio`"
     Setting this option will replace any configuration of `tradable_balance_ratio`.
 
@@ -515,13 +500,13 @@ Configuration:
     Please carefully read the section [Market order pricing](#market-order-pricing) section when using market orders.
 
 !!! Note "Stoploss on exchange"
-    `order_types.stoploss_on_exchange_interval` is not mandatory. Do not change its value if you are
+    `stoploss_on_exchange_interval` is not mandatory. Do not change its value if you are
     unsure of what you are doing. For more information about how stoploss works please
     refer to [the stoploss documentation](stoploss.md).
 
-    If `order_types.stoploss_on_exchange` is enabled and the stoploss is cancelled manually on the exchange, then the bot will create a new stoploss order.
+    If `stoploss_on_exchange` is enabled and the stoploss is cancelled manually on the exchange, then the bot will create a new stoploss order.
 
-!!! Warning "Warning: order_types.stoploss_on_exchange failures"
+!!! Warning "Warning: stoploss_on_exchange failures"
     If stoploss on exchange creation fails for some reason, then an "emergency exit" is initiated. By default, this will exit the trade using a market order. The order-type for the emergency-exit can be changed by setting the `emergency_exit` value in the `order_types` dictionary - however, this is not advised.
 
 ### Understand order_time_in_force
@@ -565,7 +550,7 @@ The possible values are: `GTC` (default), `FOK` or `IOC`.
 ```
 
 !!! Warning
-    This is ongoing work. For now, it is supported only for binance, gate and kucoin.
+    This is ongoing work. For now, it is supported only for binance, gate, ftx and kucoin.
     Please don't change the default value unless you know what you are doing and have researched the impact of using different values for your particular exchange.
 
 ### What values can be used for fiat_display_currency?
@@ -584,11 +569,9 @@ In addition to fiat currencies, a range of crypto currencies is supported.
 The valid values are:
 
 ```json
-"BTC", "ETH", "XRP", "LTC", "BCH", "BNB"
+"BTC", "ETH", "XRP", "LTC", "BCH", "USDT"
 ```
 
-Removing `fiat_display_currency` completely from the configuration will skip initializing coingecko, and will not show any FIAT currency conversion. This has no importance for the correct functioning of the bot.
-
 ## Using Dry-run mode
 
 We recommend starting the bot in the Dry-run mode to see how your bot will
@@ -608,7 +591,7 @@ creating trades on the exchange.
 
 ```json
 "exchange": {
-    "name": "binance",
+    "name": "bittrex",
     "key": "key",
     "secret": "secret",
     ...
@@ -627,7 +610,6 @@ Once you will be happy with your bot performance running in the Dry-run mode, yo
 * Orders are simulated, and will not be posted to the exchange.
 * Market orders fill based on orderbook volume the moment the order is placed.
 * Limit orders fill once the price reaches the defined level - or time out based on `unfilledtimeout` settings.
-* Limit orders will be converted to market orders if they cross the price by more than 1%.
 * In combination with `stoploss_on_exchange`, the stop_loss price is assumed to be filled.
 * Open orders (not trades, which are stored in the database) are kept open after bot restarts, with the assumption that they were not filled while being offline.
 
@@ -658,7 +640,7 @@ API Keys are usually only required for live trading (trading for real money, bot
 ```json
 {
     "exchange": {
-        "name": "binance",
+        "name": "bittrex",
         "key": "af8ddd35195e9dc500b9a6f799f6f5c93d89193b",
         "secret": "08a9dc6db3d7b53e1acebd9275677f4b0a04f1a5",
         //"password": "", // Optional, not needed by all exchanges)
@@ -680,7 +662,6 @@ You should also make sure to read the [Exchanges](exchanges.md) section of the d
 ### Using proxy with Freqtrade
 
 To use a proxy with freqtrade, export your proxy settings using the variables `"HTTP_PROXY"` and `"HTTPS_PROXY"` set to the appropriate values.
-This will have the proxy settings applied to everything (telegram, coingecko, ...) **except** for exchange requests.
 
 ``` bash
 export HTTP_PROXY="http://addr:port"
@@ -688,22 +669,20 @@ export HTTPS_PROXY="http://addr:port"
 freqtrade
 ```
 
-#### Proxy exchange requests
+#### Proxy just exchange requests
 
-To use a proxy for exchange connections - you will have to define the proxies as part of the ccxt configuration.
+To use a proxy just for exchange connections (skips/ignores telegram and coingecko) - you can also define the proxies as part of the ccxt configuration.
 
 ``` json
-{ 
-  "exchange": {
-    "ccxt_config": {
-      "httpsProxy": "http://addr:port",
-    }
-  }
+"ccxt_config": {
+    "aiohttp_proxy": "http://addr:port",
+    "proxies": {
+        "http": "http://addr:port",
+        "https": "http://addr:port"
+    },
 }
 ```
 
-For more information on available proxy types, please consult the [ccxt proxy documentation](https://docs.ccxt.com/#/README?id=proxy).
-
 ## Next step
 
 Now you have configured your config.json, the next step is to [start your bot](bot-usage.md).

docs/data-analysis.md

@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@ You can analyze the results of backtests and trading history easily using Jupyte
 ## Quick start with docker
 
 Freqtrade provides a docker-compose file which starts up a jupyter lab server.
-You can run this server using the following command: `docker compose -f docker/docker-compose-jupyter.yml up`
+You can run this server using the following command: `docker-compose -f docker/docker-compose-jupyter.yml up`
 
 This will create a dockercontainer running jupyter lab, which will be accessible using `https://127.0.0.1:8888/lab`.
 Please use the link that's printed in the console after startup for simplified login.
 
-For more information, Please visit the [Data analysis with Docker](docker_quickstart.md#data-analysis-using-docker-compose) section.
+For more information, Please visit the [Data analysis with Docker](docker_quickstart.md#data-analayis-using-docker-compose) section.
 
 ### Pro tips
 
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ For this to work, first activate your virtual environment and run the following
 
 ``` bash
 # Activate virtual environment
-source .venv/bin/activate
+source .env/bin/activate
 
 pip install ipykernel
 ipython kernel install --user --name=freqtrade
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ from pathlib import Path
 project_root = "somedir/freqtrade"
 i=0
 try:
-    os.chdir(project_root)
+    os.chdirdir(project_root)
     assert Path('LICENSE').is_file()
 except:
     while i<4 and (not Path('LICENSE').is_file()):

docs/data-download.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ To download data (candles / OHLCV) needed for backtesting and hyperoptimization
 
 If no additional parameter is specified, freqtrade will download data for `"1m"` and `"5m"` timeframes for the last 30 days.
 Exchange and pairs will come from `config.json` (if specified using `-c/--config`).
-Without provided configuration, `--exchange` becomes mandatory.
+Otherwise `--exchange` becomes mandatory.
 
 You can use a relative timerange (`--days 20`) or an absolute starting point (`--timerange 20200101-`). For incremental downloads, the relative approach should be used.
 
@@ -27,11 +27,11 @@ usage: freqtrade download-data [-h] [-v] [--logfile FILE] [-V] [-c PATH]
                                [--exchange EXCHANGE]
                                [-t TIMEFRAMES [TIMEFRAMES ...]] [--erase]
                                [--data-format-ohlcv {json,jsongz,hdf5,feather,parquet}]
-                               [--data-format-trades {json,jsongz,hdf5,feather}]
+                               [--data-format-trades {json,jsongz,hdf5}]
                                [--trading-mode {spot,margin,futures}]
                                [--prepend]
 
-options:
+optional arguments:
   -h, --help            show this help message and exit
   -p PAIRS [PAIRS ...], --pairs PAIRS [PAIRS ...]
                         Limit command to these pairs. Pairs are space-
@@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ options:
   --dl-trades           Download trades instead of OHLCV data. The bot will
                         resample trades to the desired timeframe as specified
                         as --timeframes/-t.
-  --exchange EXCHANGE   Exchange name. Only valid if no config is provided.
+  --exchange EXCHANGE   Exchange name (default: `bittrex`). Only valid if no
+                        config is provided.
   -t TIMEFRAMES [TIMEFRAMES ...], --timeframes TIMEFRAMES [TIMEFRAMES ...]
                         Specify which tickers to download. Space-separated
                         list. Default: `1m 5m`.
@@ -56,18 +57,17 @@ options:
                         exchange/pairs/timeframes.
   --data-format-ohlcv {json,jsongz,hdf5,feather,parquet}
                         Storage format for downloaded candle (OHLCV) data.
-                        (default: `feather`).
-  --data-format-trades {json,jsongz,hdf5,feather}
+                        (default: `json`).
+  --data-format-trades {json,jsongz,hdf5}
                         Storage format for downloaded trades data. (default:
-                        `feather`).
+                        `jsongz`).
   --trading-mode {spot,margin,futures}, --tradingmode {spot,margin,futures}
                         Select Trading mode
   --prepend             Allow data prepending. (Data-appending is disabled)
 
 Common arguments:
   -v, --verbose         Verbose mode (-vv for more, -vvv to get all messages).
-  --logfile FILE, --log-file FILE
-                        Log to the file specified. Special values are:
+  --logfile FILE        Log to the file specified. Special values are:
                         'syslog', 'journald'. See the documentation for more
                         details.
   -V, --version         show program's version number and exit
@@ -83,47 +83,40 @@ Common arguments:
 
 ```
 
-!!! Tip "Downloading all data for one quote currency"
-    Often, you'll want to download data for all pairs of a specific quote-currency. In such cases, you can use the following shorthand:
-    `freqtrade download-data --exchange binance --pairs .*/USDT <...>`. The provided "pairs" string will be expanded to contain all active pairs on the exchange.
-    To also download data for inactive (delisted) pairs, add `--include-inactive-pairs` to the command.
-
 !!! Note "Startup period"
     `download-data` is a strategy-independent command. The idea is to download a big chunk of data once, and then iteratively increase the amount of data stored.
 
     For that reason, `download-data` does not care about the "startup-period" defined in a strategy. It's up to the user to download additional days if the backtest should start at a specific point in time (while respecting startup period).
 
-### Start download
+### Pairs file
 
-A very simple command (assuming an available `config.json` file) can look as follows.
+In alternative to the whitelist from `config.json`, a `pairs.json` file can be used.
+If you are using Binance for example:
+
+- create a directory `user_data/data/binance` and copy or create the `pairs.json` file in that directory.
+- update the `pairs.json` file to contain the currency pairs you are interested in.
 
 ```bash
-freqtrade download-data --exchange binance
+mkdir -p user_data/data/binance
+touch user_data/data/binance/pairs.json
 ```
 
-This will download historical candle (OHLCV) data for all the currency pairs defined in the configuration.
+The format of the `pairs.json` file is a simple json list.
+Mixing different stake-currencies is allowed for this file, since it's only used for downloading.
 
-Alternatively, specify the pairs directly
-
-```bash
-freqtrade download-data --exchange binance --pairs ETH/USDT XRP/USDT BTC/USDT
+``` json
+[
+    "ETH/BTC",
+    "ETH/USDT",
+    "BTC/USDT",
+    "XRP/ETH"
+]
 ```
 
-or as regex (in this case, to download all active USDT pairs)
-
-```bash
-freqtrade download-data --exchange binance --pairs .*/USDT
-```
-
-### Other Notes
-
-* To use a different directory than the exchange specific default, use `--datadir user_data/data/some_directory`.
-* To change the exchange used to download the historical data from, please use a different configuration file (you'll probably need to adjust rate limits etc.)
-* To use `pairs.json` from some other directory, use `--pairs-file some_other_dir/pairs.json`.
-* To download historical candle (OHLCV) data for only 10 days, use `--days 10` (defaults to 30 days).
-* To download historical candle (OHLCV) data from a fixed starting point, use `--timerange 20200101-` - which will download all data from January 1st, 2020.
-* Use `--timeframes` to specify what timeframe download the historical candle (OHLCV) data for. Default is `--timeframes 1m 5m` which will download 1-minute and 5-minute data.
-* To use exchange, timeframe and list of pairs as defined in your configuration file, use the `-c/--config` option. With this, the script uses the whitelist defined in the config as the list of currency pairs to download data for and does not require the pairs.json file. You can combine `-c/--config` with most other options.
+!!! Tip "Downloading all data for one quote currency"
+    Often, you'll want to download data for all pairs of a specific quote-currency. In such cases, you can use the following shorthand:
+    `freqtrade download-data --exchange binance --pairs .*/USDT <...>`. The provided "pairs" string will be expanded to contain all active pairs on the exchange.
+    To also download data for inactive (delisted) pairs, add `--include-inactive-pairs` to the command.
 
 ??? Note "Permission denied errors"
     If your configuration directory `user_data` was made by docker, you may get the following error:
@@ -138,7 +131,39 @@ freqtrade download-data --exchange binance --pairs .*/USDT
     sudo chown -R $UID:$GID user_data
     ```
 
-### Download additional data before the current timerange
+### Start download
+
+Then run:
+
+```bash
+freqtrade download-data --exchange binance
+```
+
+This will download historical candle (OHLCV) data for all the currency pairs you defined in `pairs.json`.
+
+Alternatively, specify the pairs directly
+
+```bash
+freqtrade download-data --exchange binance --pairs ETH/USDT XRP/USDT BTC/USDT
+```
+
+or as regex (to download all active USDT pairs)
+
+```bash
+freqtrade download-data --exchange binance --pairs .*/USDT
+```
+
+### Other Notes
+
+- To use a different directory than the exchange specific default, use `--datadir user_data/data/some_directory`.
+- To change the exchange used to download the historical data from, please use a different configuration file (you'll probably need to adjust rate limits etc.)
+- To use `pairs.json` from some other directory, use `--pairs-file some_other_dir/pairs.json`.
+- To download historical candle (OHLCV) data for only 10 days, use `--days 10` (defaults to 30 days).
+- To download historical candle (OHLCV) data from a fixed starting point, use `--timerange 20200101-` - which will download all data from January 1st, 2020.
+- Use `--timeframes` to specify what timeframe download the historical candle (OHLCV) data for. Default is `--timeframes 1m 5m` which will download 1-minute and 5-minute data.
+- To use exchange, timeframe and list of pairs as defined in your configuration file, use the `-c/--config` option. With this, the script uses the whitelist defined in the config as the list of currency pairs to download data for and does not require the pairs.json file. You can combine `-c/--config` with most other options.
+
+#### Download additional data before the current timerange
 
 Assuming you downloaded all data from 2022 (`--timerange 20220101-`) - but you'd now like to also backtest with earlier data.
 You can do so by using the `--prepend` flag, combined with `--timerange` - specifying an end-date.
@@ -152,15 +177,15 @@ freqtrade download-data --exchange binance --pairs ETH/USDT XRP/USDT BTC/USDT --
 
 ### Data format
 
-Freqtrade currently supports the following data-formats:
+Freqtrade currently supports 3 data-formats for both OHLCV and trades data:
 
-* `feather` - a dataformat based on Apache Arrow
 * `json` -  plain "text" json files
 * `jsongz` - a gzip-zipped version of json files
 * `hdf5` - a high performance datastore
-* `parquet` - columnar datastore (OHLCV only)
+* `feather` - a dataformat based on Apache Arrow
+* `parquet` - columnar datastore
 
-By default, both OHLCV data and trades data are stored in the `feather` format.
+By default, OHLCV data is stored as `json` data, while trades data is stored as `jsongz` data.
 
 This can be changed via the `--data-format-ohlcv` and `--data-format-trades` command line arguments respectively.
 To persist this change, you should also add the following snippet to your configuration, so you don't have to insert the above arguments each time:
@@ -203,46 +228,17 @@ time freqtrade list-data --show-timerange --data-format-ohlcv <dataformat>
 
 |  Format | Size | timing |
 |------------|-------------|-------------|
-| `feather` | 72Mb | 3.5s |
 | `json` | 149Mb | 25.6s |
 | `jsongz` | 39Mb | 27s |
 | `hdf5` | 145Mb | 3.9s |
+| `feather` | 72Mb | 3.5s |
 | `parquet` | 83Mb | 3.8s |
 
 Size has been taken from the BTC/USDT 1m spot combination for the timerange specified above.
 
-To have a best performance/size mix, we recommend using the default feather format, or parquet.
+To have a best performance/size mix, we recommend the use of either feather or parquet.
 
-### Pairs file
-
-In alternative to the whitelist from `config.json`, a `pairs.json` file can be used.
-If you are using Binance for example:
-
-* create a directory `user_data/data/binance` and copy or create the `pairs.json` file in that directory.
-* update the `pairs.json` file to contain the currency pairs you are interested in.
-
-```bash
-mkdir -p user_data/data/binance
-touch user_data/data/binance/pairs.json
-```
-
-The format of the `pairs.json` file is a simple json list.
-Mixing different stake-currencies is allowed for this file, since it's only used for downloading.
-
-``` json
-[
-    "ETH/BTC",
-    "ETH/USDT",
-    "BTC/USDT",
-    "XRP/ETH"
-]
-```
-
-!!! Note
-    The `pairs.json` file is only used when no configuration is loaded (implicitly by naming, or via `--config` flag).
-    You can force the usage of this file via `--pairs-file pairs.json` - however we recommend to use the pairlist from within the configuration, either via `exchange.pair_whitelist` or `pairs` setting in the configuration.
-
-## Sub-command convert data
+#### Sub-command convert data
 
 ```
 usage: freqtrade convert-data [-h] [-v] [--logfile FILE] [-V] [-c PATH]
@@ -255,7 +251,7 @@ usage: freqtrade convert-data [-h] [-v] [--logfile FILE] [-V] [-c PATH]
                               [--trading-mode {spot,margin,futures}]
                               [--candle-types {spot,futures,mark,index,premiumIndex,funding_rate} [{spot,futures,mark,index,premiumIndex,funding_rate} ...]]
 
-options:
+optional arguments:
   -h, --help            show this help message and exit
   -p PAIRS [PAIRS ...], --pairs PAIRS [PAIRS ...]
                         Limit command to these pairs. Pairs are space-
@@ -266,20 +262,19 @@ options:
                         Destination format for data conversion.
   --erase               Clean all existing data for the selected
                         exchange/pairs/timeframes.
-  --exchange EXCHANGE   Exchange name. Only valid if no config is provided.
+  --exchange EXCHANGE   Exchange name (default: `bittrex`). Only valid if no
+                        config is provided.
   -t TIMEFRAMES [TIMEFRAMES ...], --timeframes TIMEFRAMES [TIMEFRAMES ...]
                         Specify which tickers to download. Space-separated
                         list. Default: `1m 5m`.
   --trading-mode {spot,margin,futures}, --tradingmode {spot,margin,futures}
                         Select Trading mode
   --candle-types {spot,futures,mark,index,premiumIndex,funding_rate} [{spot,futures,mark,index,premiumIndex,funding_rate} ...]
-                        Select candle type to convert. Defaults to all
-                        available types.
+                        Select candle type to use
 
 Common arguments:
   -v, --verbose         Verbose mode (-vv for more, -vvv to get all messages).
-  --logfile FILE, --log-file FILE
-                        Log to the file specified. Special values are:
+  --logfile FILE        Log to the file specified. Special values are:
                         'syslog', 'journald'. See the documentation for more
                         details.
   -V, --version         show program's version number and exit
@@ -292,9 +287,10 @@ Common arguments:
                         Path to directory with historical backtesting data.
   --userdir PATH, --user-data-dir PATH
                         Path to userdata directory.
+
 ```
 
-### Example converting data
+##### Example converting data
 
 The following command will convert all candle (OHLCV) data available in `~/.freqtrade/data/binance` from json to jsongz, saving diskspace in the process.
 It'll also remove original json data files (`--erase` parameter).
@@ -303,7 +299,7 @@ It'll also remove original json data files (`--erase` parameter).
 freqtrade convert-data --format-from json --format-to jsongz --datadir ~/.freqtrade/data/binance -t 5m 15m --erase
 ```
 
-## Sub-command convert trade data
+#### Sub-command convert trade data
 
 ```
 usage: freqtrade convert-trade-data [-h] [-v] [--logfile FILE] [-V] [-c PATH]
@@ -314,7 +310,7 @@ usage: freqtrade convert-trade-data [-h] [-v] [--logfile FILE] [-V] [-c PATH]
                                     {json,jsongz,hdf5,feather,parquet}
                                     [--erase] [--exchange EXCHANGE]
 
-options:
+optional arguments:
   -h, --help            show this help message and exit
   -p PAIRS [PAIRS ...], --pairs PAIRS [PAIRS ...]
                         Limit command to these pairs. Pairs are space-
@@ -325,12 +321,12 @@ options:
                         Destination format for data conversion.
   --erase               Clean all existing data for the selected
                         exchange/pairs/timeframes.
-  --exchange EXCHANGE   Exchange name. Only valid if no config is provided.
+  --exchange EXCHANGE   Exchange name (default: `bittrex`). Only valid if no
+                        config is provided.
 
 Common arguments:
   -v, --verbose         Verbose mode (-vv for more, -vvv to get all messages).
-  --logfile FILE, --log-file FILE
-                        Log to the file specified. Special values are:
+  --logfile FILE        Log to the file specified. Special values are:
                         'syslog', 'journald'. See the documentation for more
                         details.
   -V, --version         show program's version number and exit
@@ -346,7 +342,7 @@ Common arguments:
 
 ```
 
-### Example converting trades
+##### Example converting trades
 
 The following command will convert all available trade-data in `~/.freqtrade/data/kraken` from jsongz to json.
 It'll also remove original jsongz data files (`--erase` parameter).
@@ -355,7 +351,7 @@ It'll also remove original jsongz data files (`--erase` parameter).
 freqtrade convert-trade-data --format-from jsongz --format-to json --datadir ~/.freqtrade/data/kraken --erase
 ```
 
-## Sub-command trades to ohlcv
+### Sub-command trades to ohlcv
 
 When you need to use `--dl-trades` (kraken only) to download data, conversion of trades data to ohlcv data is the last step.
 This command will allow you to repeat this last step for additional timeframes without re-downloading the data.
@@ -367,9 +363,9 @@ usage: freqtrade trades-to-ohlcv [-h] [-v] [--logfile FILE] [-V] [-c PATH]
                                  [-t TIMEFRAMES [TIMEFRAMES ...]]
                                  [--exchange EXCHANGE]
                                  [--data-format-ohlcv {json,jsongz,hdf5,feather,parquet}]
-                                 [--data-format-trades {json,jsongz,hdf5,feather}]
+                                 [--data-format-trades {json,jsongz,hdf5}]
 
-options:
+optional arguments:
   -h, --help            show this help message and exit
   -p PAIRS [PAIRS ...], --pairs PAIRS [PAIRS ...]
                         Limit command to these pairs. Pairs are space-
@@ -377,18 +373,18 @@ options:
   -t TIMEFRAMES [TIMEFRAMES ...], --timeframes TIMEFRAMES [TIMEFRAMES ...]
                         Specify which tickers to download. Space-separated
                         list. Default: `1m 5m`.
-  --exchange EXCHANGE   Exchange name. Only valid if no config is provided.
+  --exchange EXCHANGE   Exchange name (default: `bittrex`). Only valid if no
+                        config is provided.
   --data-format-ohlcv {json,jsongz,hdf5,feather,parquet}
                         Storage format for downloaded candle (OHLCV) data.
-                        (default: `feather`).
-  --data-format-trades {json,jsongz,hdf5,feather}
+                        (default: `json`).
+  --data-format-trades {json,jsongz,hdf5}
                         Storage format for downloaded trades data. (default:
-                        `feather`).
+                        `jsongz`).
 
 Common arguments:
   -v, --verbose         Verbose mode (-vv for more, -vvv to get all messages).
-  --logfile FILE, --log-file FILE
-                        Log to the file specified. Special values are:
+  --logfile FILE        Log to the file specified. Special values are:
                         'syslog', 'journald'. See the documentation for more
                         details.
   -V, --version         show program's version number and exit
@@ -404,13 +400,13 @@ Common arguments:
 
 ```
 
-### Example trade-to-ohlcv conversion
+#### Example trade-to-ohlcv conversion
 
 ``` bash
 freqtrade trades-to-ohlcv --exchange kraken -t 5m 1h 1d --pairs BTC/EUR ETH/EUR
 ```
 
-## Sub-command list-data
+### Sub-command list-data
 
 You can get a list of downloaded data using the `list-data` sub-command.
 
@@ -422,12 +418,13 @@ usage: freqtrade list-data [-h] [-v] [--logfile FILE] [-V] [-c PATH] [-d PATH]
                            [--trading-mode {spot,margin,futures}]
                            [--show-timerange]
 
-options:
+optional arguments:
   -h, --help            show this help message and exit
-  --exchange EXCHANGE   Exchange name. Only valid if no config is provided.
+  --exchange EXCHANGE   Exchange name (default: `bittrex`). Only valid if no
+                        config is provided.
   --data-format-ohlcv {json,jsongz,hdf5,feather,parquet}
                         Storage format for downloaded candle (OHLCV) data.
-                        (default: `feather`).
+                        (default: `json`).
   -p PAIRS [PAIRS ...], --pairs PAIRS [PAIRS ...]
                         Limit command to these pairs. Pairs are space-
                         separated.
@@ -438,8 +435,7 @@ options:
 
 Common arguments:
   -v, --verbose         Verbose mode (-vv for more, -vvv to get all messages).
-  --logfile FILE, --log-file FILE
-                        Log to the file specified. Special values are:
+  --logfile FILE        Log to the file specified. Special values are:
                         'syslog', 'journald'. See the documentation for more
                         details.
   -V, --version         show program's version number and exit
@@ -455,7 +451,7 @@ Common arguments:
 
 ```
 
-### Example list-data
+#### Example list-data
 
 ```bash
 > freqtrade list-data --userdir ~/.freqtrade/user_data/
@@ -469,12 +465,12 @@ ETH/BTC     5m, 15m, 30m, 1h, 2h, 4h, 6h, 12h, 1d
 ETH/USDT    5m, 15m, 30m, 1h, 2h, 4h
 ```
 
-## Trades (tick) data
+### Trades (tick) data
 
 By default, `download-data` sub-command downloads Candles (OHLCV) data. Some exchanges also provide historic trade-data via their API.
 This data can be useful if you need many different timeframes, since it is only downloaded once, and then resampled locally to the desired timeframes.
 
-Since this data is large by default, the files use the feather fileformat by default. They are stored in your data-directory with the naming convention of `<pair>-trades.feather` (`ETH_BTC-trades.feather`). Incremental mode is also supported, as for historic OHLCV data, so downloading the data once per week with `--days 8` will create an incremental data-repository.
+Since this data is large by default, the files use gzip by default. They are stored in your data-directory with the naming convention of `<pair>-trades.json.gz` (`ETH_BTC-trades.json.gz`). Incremental mode is also supported, as for historic OHLCV data, so downloading the data once per week with `--days 8` will create an incremental data-repository.
 
 To use this mode, simply add `--dl-trades` to your call. This will swap the download method to download trades, and resamples the data locally.
 

docs/deprecated.md

@@ -66,16 +66,11 @@ We will keep a compatibility layer for 1-2 versions (so both `buy_tag` and `ente
 
 #### Naming changes
 
-Webhook terminology changed from "sell" to "exit", and from "buy" to "entry", removing "webhook" in the process.
+Webhook terminology changed from "sell" to "exit", and from "buy" to "entry".
 
-* `webhookbuy`, `webhookentry` -> `entry`
-* `webhookbuyfill`, `webhookentryfill` -> `entry_fill`
-* `webhookbuycancel`, `webhookentrycancel` -> `entry_cancel`
-* `webhooksell`, `webhookexit` -> `exit`
-* `webhooksellfill`, `webhookexitfill` -> `exit_fill`
-* `webhooksellcancel`, `webhookexitcancel` -> `exit_cancel`
-
-
-## Removal of `populate_any_indicators`
-
-version 2023.3 saw the removal of `populate_any_indicators` in favor of split methods for feature engineering and targets. Please read the [migration document](strategy_migration.md#freqai-strategy) for full details.
+* `webhookbuy` -> `webhookentry`
+* `webhookbuyfill` -> `webhookentryfill`
+* `webhookbuycancel` -> `webhookentrycancel`
+* `webhooksell` -> `webhookexit`
+* `webhooksellfill` -> `webhookexitfill`
+* `webhooksellcancel` -> `webhookexitcancel`

docs/developer.md

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ This will spin up a local server (usually on port 8000) so you can see if everyt
 To configure a development environment, you can either use the provided [DevContainer](#devcontainer-setup), or use the `setup.sh` script and answer "y" when asked "Do you want to install dependencies for dev [y/N]? ".
 Alternatively (e.g. if your system is not supported by the setup.sh script), follow the manual installation process and run `pip3 install -e .[all]`.
 
-This will install all required tools for development, including `pytest`, `ruff`, `mypy`, and `coveralls`.
+This will install all required tools for development, including `pytest`, `flake8`, `mypy`, and `coveralls`.
 
 Then install the git hook scripts by running `pre-commit install`, so your changes will be verified locally before committing.
 This avoids a lot of waiting for CI already, as some basic formatting checks are done locally on your machine.
@@ -49,13 +49,6 @@ For more information about the [Remote container extension](https://code.visuals
 New code should be covered by basic unittests. Depending on the complexity of the feature, Reviewers may request more in-depth unittests.
 If necessary, the Freqtrade team can assist and give guidance with writing good tests (however please don't expect anyone to write the tests for you).
 
-#### How to run tests
-
-Use `pytest` in root folder to run all available testcases and confirm your local environment is setup correctly
-
-!!! Note "feature branches"
-    Tests are expected to pass on the `develop` and `stable` branches. Other branches may be work in progress with tests not working yet.
-
 #### Checking log content in tests
 
 Freqtrade uses 2 main methods to check log content in tests, `log_has()` and `log_has_re()` (to check using regex, in case of dynamic log-messages).
@@ -77,7 +70,7 @@ def test_method_to_test(caplog):
 
 ### Debug configuration
 
-To debug freqtrade, we recommend VSCode (with the Python extension) with the following launch configuration (located in `.vscode/launch.json`).
+To debug freqtrade, we recommend VSCode with the following launch configuration (located in `.vscode/launch.json`).
 Details will obviously vary between setups - but this should work to get you started.
 
 ``` json
@@ -102,19 +95,6 @@ This method can also be used to debug a strategy, by setting the breakpoints wit
 
 A similar setup can also be taken for Pycharm - using `freqtrade` as module name, and setting the command line arguments as "parameters".
 
-??? Tip "Correct venv usage"
-    When using a virtual environment (which you should), make sure that your Editor is using the correct virtual environment to avoid problems or "unknown import" errors.
-
-    #### Vscode
-
-    You can select the correct environment in VSCode with the command "Python: Select Interpreter" - which will show you environments the extension detected.
-    If your environment has not been detected, you can also pick a path manually.
-
-    #### Pycharm
-
-    In pycharm, you can select the appropriate Environment in the "Run/Debug Configurations" window.
-    ![Pycharm debug configuration](assets/pycharm_debug.png)
-
 !!! Note "Startup directory"
     This assumes that you have the repository checked out, and the editor is started at the repository root level (so setup.py is at the top level of your repository).
 
@@ -129,8 +109,6 @@ Below is an outline of exception inheritance hierarchy:
 + FreqtradeException
 |
 +---+ OperationalException
-|   |
-|   +---+ ConfigurationError
 |
 +---+ DependencyException
 |   |
@@ -320,7 +298,6 @@ Additional tests / steps to complete:
 * Check if balance shows correctly (*)
 * Create market order (*)
 * Create limit order (*)
-* Cancel order (*)
 * Complete trade (enter + exit) (*)
   * Compare result calculation between exchange and bot
   * Ensure fees are applied correctly (check the database against the exchange)
@@ -343,18 +320,18 @@ To check how the new exchange behaves, you can use the following snippet:
 
 ``` python
 import ccxt
-from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from datetime import datetime
 from freqtrade.data.converter import ohlcv_to_dataframe
-ct = ccxt.binance()  # Use the exchange you're testing
+ct = ccxt.binance()
 timeframe = "1d"
-pair = "BTC/USDT"  # Make sure to use a pair that exists on that exchange!
+pair = "XLM/BTC"  # Make sure to use a pair that exists on that exchange!
 raw = ct.fetch_ohlcv(pair, timeframe=timeframe)
 
 # convert to dataframe
 df1 = ohlcv_to_dataframe(raw, timeframe, pair=pair, drop_incomplete=False)
 
 print(df1.tail(1))
-print(datetime.now(timezone.utc))
+print(datetime.utcnow())
 ```
 
 ``` output
@@ -378,8 +355,8 @@ from pathlib import Path
 
 exchange = ccxt.binance({
     'apiKey': '<apikey>',
-    'secret': '<secret>',
-    'options': {'defaultType': 'swap'}
+    'secret': '<secret>'
+    'options': {'defaultType': 'future'}
     })
 _ = exchange.load_markets()
 
@@ -421,9 +398,6 @@ This part of the documentation is aimed at maintainers, and shows how to create
 
 ### Create release branch
 
-!!! Note
-    Make sure that the `stable` branch is up-to-date!
-
 First, pick a commit that's about one week old (to not include latest additions to releases).
 
 ``` bash
@@ -436,11 +410,14 @@ Determine if crucial bugfixes have been made between this commit and the current
 * Merge the release branch (stable) into this branch.
 * Edit `freqtrade/__init__.py` and add the version matching the current date (for example `2019.7` for July 2019). Minor versions can be `2019.7.1` should we need to do a second release that month. Version numbers must follow allowed versions from PEP0440 to avoid failures pushing to pypi.
 * Commit this part.
-* Push that branch to the remote and create a PR against the **stable branch**.
+* push that branch to the remote and create a PR against the stable branch.
 * Update develop version to next version following the pattern `2019.8-dev`.
 
 ### Create changelog from git commits
 
+!!! Note
+    Make sure that the `stable` branch is up-to-date!
+
 ``` bash
 # Needs to be done before merging / pulling that branch.
 git log --oneline --no-decorate --no-merges stable..new_release
@@ -457,11 +434,6 @@ To keep the release-log short, best wrap the full git changelog into a collapsib
 </details>
 ```
 
-### FreqUI release
-
-If FreqUI has been updated substantially, make sure to create a release before merging the release branch.
-Make sure that freqUI CI on the release is finished and passed before merging the release.
-
 ### Create github release / tag
 
 Once the PR against stable is merged (best right after merging):
@@ -469,13 +441,7 @@ Once the PR against stable is merged (best right after merging):
 * Use the button "Draft a new release" in the Github UI (subsection releases).
 * Use the version-number specified as tag.
 * Use "stable" as reference (this step comes after the above PR is merged).
-* Use the above changelog as release comment (as codeblock).
-* Use the below snippet for the new release
-
-??? Tip "Release template"
-    ````
-    --8<-- "includes/release_template.md"
-    ````
+* Use the above changelog as release comment (as codeblock)
 
 ## Releases
 

docs/docker_quickstart.md

@@ -4,25 +4,20 @@ This page explains how to run the bot with Docker. It is not meant to work out o
 
 ## Install Docker
 
-Start by downloading and installing Docker / Docker Desktop for your platform:
+Start by downloading and installing Docker CE for your platform:
 
 * [Mac](https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/install/)
 * [Windows](https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/install/)
 * [Linux](https://docs.docker.com/install/)
 
-!!! Info "Docker compose install"
-    Freqtrade documentation assumes the use of Docker desktop (or the docker compose plugin).  
-    While the docker-compose standalone installation still works, it will require changing all `docker compose` commands from `docker compose` to `docker-compose` to work (e.g. `docker compose up -d` will become `docker-compose up -d`).
+To simplify running freqtrade, [`docker-compose`](https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/) should be installed and available to follow the below [docker quick start guide](#docker-quick-start).
 
-??? Warning "Docker on windows"
-    If you just installed docker on a windows system, make sure to reboot your system, otherwise you might encounter unexplainable Problems related to network connectivity to docker containers.
+## Freqtrade with docker-compose
 
-## Freqtrade with docker
-
-Freqtrade provides an official Docker image on [Dockerhub](https://hub.docker.com/r/freqtradeorg/freqtrade/), as well as a [docker compose file](https://github.com/freqtrade/freqtrade/blob/stable/docker-compose.yml) ready for usage.
+Freqtrade provides an official Docker image on [Dockerhub](https://hub.docker.com/r/freqtradeorg/freqtrade/), as well as a [docker-compose file](https://github.com/freqtrade/freqtrade/blob/stable/docker-compose.yml) ready for usage.
 
 !!! Note
-    - The following section assumes that `docker` is installed and available to the logged in user.
+    - The following section assumes that `docker` and `docker-compose` are installed and available to the logged in user.
     - All below commands use relative directories and will have to be executed from the directory containing the `docker-compose.yml` file.
 
 ### Docker quick start
@@ -36,13 +31,13 @@ cd ft_userdata/
 curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freqtrade/freqtrade/stable/docker-compose.yml -o docker-compose.yml
 
 # Pull the freqtrade image
-docker compose pull
+docker-compose pull
 
 # Create user directory structure
-docker compose run --rm freqtrade create-userdir --userdir user_data
+docker-compose run --rm freqtrade create-userdir --userdir user_data
 
 # Create configuration - Requires answering interactive questions
-docker compose run --rm freqtrade new-config --config user_data/config.json
+docker-compose run --rm freqtrade new-config --config user_data/config.json
 ```
 
 The above snippet creates a new directory called `ft_userdata`, downloads the latest compose file and pulls the freqtrade image.
@@ -69,7 +64,7 @@ The `SampleStrategy` is run by default.
 Once this is done, you're ready to launch the bot in trading mode (Dry-run or Live-trading, depending on your answer to the corresponding question you made above).
 
 ``` bash
-docker compose up -d
+docker-compose up -d
 ```
 
 !!! Warning "Default configuration"
@@ -81,7 +76,7 @@ If you've selected to enable FreqUI in the `new-config` step, you will have freq
 
 You can now access the UI by typing localhost:8080 in your browser.
 
-??? Note "UI Access on a remote server"
+??? Note "UI Access on a remote servers"
     If you're running on a VPS, you should consider using either a ssh tunnel, or setup a VPN (openVPN, wireguard) to connect to your bot.
     This will ensure that freqUI is not directly exposed to the internet, which is not recommended for security reasons (freqUI does not support https out of the box).
     Setup of these tools is not part of this tutorial, however many good tutorials can be found on the internet.
@@ -89,27 +84,27 @@ You can now access the UI by typing localhost:8080 in your browser.
 
 #### Monitoring the bot
 
-You can check for running instances with `docker compose ps`.
+You can check for running instances with `docker-compose ps`.
 This should list the service `freqtrade` as `running`. If that's not the case, best check the logs (see next point).
 
-#### Docker compose logs
+#### Docker-compose logs
 
 Logs will be written to: `user_data/logs/freqtrade.log`.  
-You can also check the latest log with the command `docker compose logs -f`.
+You can also check the latest log with the command `docker-compose logs -f`.
 
 #### Database
 
 The database will be located at: `user_data/tradesv3.sqlite`
 
-#### Updating freqtrade with docker
+#### Updating freqtrade with docker-compose
 
-Updating freqtrade when using `docker` is as simple as running the following 2 commands:
+Updating freqtrade when using `docker-compose` is as simple as running the following 2 commands:
 
 ``` bash
 # Download the latest image
-docker compose pull
+docker-compose pull
 # Restart the image
-docker compose up -d
+docker-compose up -d
 ```
 
 This will first pull the latest image, and will then restart the container with the just pulled version.
@@ -121,43 +116,43 @@ This will first pull the latest image, and will then restart the container with
 
 Advanced users may edit the docker-compose file further to include all possible options or arguments.
 
-All freqtrade arguments will be available by running `docker compose run --rm freqtrade <command> <optional arguments>`.
+All freqtrade arguments will be available by running `docker-compose run --rm freqtrade <command> <optional arguments>`.
 
-!!! Warning "`docker compose` for trade commands"
-    Trade commands (`freqtrade trade <...>`) should not be ran via `docker compose run` - but should use `docker compose up -d` instead.
+!!! Warning "`docker-compose` for trade commands"
+    Trade commands (`freqtrade trade <...>`) should not be ran via `docker-compose run` - but should use `docker-compose up -d` instead.
     This makes sure that the container is properly started (including port forwardings) and will make sure that the container will restart after a system reboot.
     If you intend to use freqUI, please also ensure to adjust the [configuration accordingly](rest-api.md#configuration-with-docker), otherwise the UI will not be available.
 
-!!! Note "`docker compose run --rm`"
+!!! Note "`docker-compose run --rm`"
     Including `--rm` will remove the container after completion, and is highly recommended for all modes except trading mode (running with `freqtrade trade` command).
 
-??? Note "Using docker without docker compose"
-    "`docker compose run --rm`" will require a compose file to be provided.
+??? Note "Using docker without docker-compose"
+    "`docker-compose run --rm`" will require a compose file to be provided.
     Some freqtrade commands that don't require authentication such as `list-pairs` can be run with "`docker run --rm`" instead.  
     For example `docker run --rm freqtradeorg/freqtrade:stable list-pairs --exchange binance --quote BTC --print-json`.  
     This can be useful for fetching exchange information to add to your `config.json` without affecting your running containers.
 
-#### Example: Download data with docker
+#### Example: Download data with docker-compose
 
 Download backtesting data for 5 days for the pair ETH/BTC and 1h timeframe from Binance. The data will be stored in the directory `user_data/data/` on the host.
 
 ``` bash
-docker compose run --rm freqtrade download-data --pairs ETH/BTC --exchange binance --days 5 -t 1h
+docker-compose run --rm freqtrade download-data --pairs ETH/BTC --exchange binance --days 5 -t 1h
 ```
 
 Head over to the [Data Downloading Documentation](data-download.md) for more details on downloading data.
 
-#### Example: Backtest with docker
+#### Example: Backtest with docker-compose
 
 Run backtesting in docker-containers for SampleStrategy and specified timerange of historical data, on 5m timeframe:
 
 ``` bash
-docker compose run --rm freqtrade backtesting --config user_data/config.json --strategy SampleStrategy --timerange 20190801-20191001 -i 5m
+docker-compose run --rm freqtrade backtesting --config user_data/config.json --strategy SampleStrategy --timerange 20190801-20191001 -i 5m
 ```
 
 Head over to the [Backtesting Documentation](backtesting.md) to learn more.
 
-### Additional dependencies with docker
+### Additional dependencies with docker-compose
 
 If your strategy requires dependencies not included in the default image - it will be necessary to build the image on your host.
 For this, please create a Dockerfile containing installation steps for the additional dependencies (have a look at [docker/Dockerfile.custom](https://github.com/freqtrade/freqtrade/blob/develop/docker/Dockerfile.custom) for an example).
@@ -171,15 +166,15 @@ You'll then also need to modify the `docker-compose.yml` file and uncomment the
       dockerfile: "./Dockerfile.<yourextension>"
 ```
 
-You can then run `docker compose build --pull` to build the docker image, and run it using the commands described above.
+You can then run `docker-compose build --pull` to build the docker image, and run it using the commands described above.
 
-### Plotting with docker
+### Plotting with docker-compose
 
-Commands `freqtrade plot-profit` and `freqtrade plot-dataframe` ([Documentation](plotting.md)) are available by changing the image to `*_plot` in your `docker-compose.yml` file.
+Commands `freqtrade plot-profit` and `freqtrade plot-dataframe` ([Documentation](plotting.md)) are available by changing the image to `*_plot` in your docker-compose.yml file.
 You can then use these commands as follows:
 
 ``` bash
-docker compose run --rm freqtrade plot-dataframe --strategy AwesomeStrategy -p BTC/ETH --timerange=20180801-20180805
+docker-compose run --rm freqtrade plot-dataframe --strategy AwesomeStrategy -p BTC/ETH --timerange=20180801-20180805
 ```
 
 The output will be stored in the `user_data/plot` directory, and can be opened with any modern browser.
@@ -190,7 +185,7 @@ Freqtrade provides a docker-compose file which starts up a jupyter lab server.
 You can run this server using the following command:
 
 ``` bash
-docker compose -f docker/docker-compose-jupyter.yml up
+docker-compose -f docker/docker-compose-jupyter.yml up
 ```
 
 This will create a docker-container running jupyter lab, which will be accessible using `https://127.0.0.1:8888/lab`.
@@ -199,27 +194,23 @@ Please use the link that's printed in the console after startup for simplified l
 Since part of this image is built on your machine, it is recommended to rebuild the image from time to time to keep freqtrade (and dependencies) up-to-date.
 
 ``` bash
-docker compose -f docker/docker-compose-jupyter.yml build --no-cache
+docker-compose -f docker/docker-compose-jupyter.yml build --no-cache
 ```
 
 ## Troubleshooting
 
 ### Docker on Windows
 
-* Error: `"Timestamp for this request is outside of the recvWindow."`  
-  The market api requests require a synchronized clock but the time in the docker container shifts a bit over time into the past.
-  To fix this issue temporarily you need to run `wsl --shutdown` and restart docker again (a popup on windows 10 will ask you to do so).
-  A permanent solution is either to host the docker container on a linux host or restart the wsl from time to time with the scheduler.
+* Error: `"Timestamp for this request is outside of the recvWindow."`
+  * The market api requests require a synchronized clock but the time in the docker container shifts a bit over time into the past.
+    To fix this issue temporarily you need to run `wsl --shutdown` and restart docker again (a popup on windows 10 will ask you to do so).
+    A permanent solution is either to host the docker container on a linux host or restart the wsl from time to time with the scheduler.
 
-  ``` bash
-  taskkill /IM "Docker Desktop.exe" /F
-  wsl --shutdown
-  start "" "C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\Docker Desktop.exe"
-  ```
-
-* Cannot connect to the API (Windows)  
-  If you're on windows and just installed Docker (desktop), make sure to reboot your System. Docker can have problems with network connectivity without a restart.
-  You should obviously also make sure to have your [settings](#accessing-the-ui) accordingly.
+    ``` bash
+    taskkill /IM "Docker Desktop.exe" /F
+    wsl --shutdown
+    start "" "C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\Docker Desktop.exe"
+    ```
 
 !!! Warning
     Due to the above, we do not recommend the usage of docker on windows for production setups, but only for experimentation, datadownload and backtesting.

docs/edge.md

@@ -2,10 +2,6 @@
 
 The `Edge Positioning` module uses probability to calculate your win rate and risk reward ratio. It will use these statistics to control your strategy trade entry points, position size and, stoploss.
 
-!!! Danger "Deprecated functionality"
-    `Edge positioning` (or short Edge) is currently in maintenance mode only (we keep existing functionality alive) and should be considered as deprecated.
-    It will currently not receive new features until either someone stepped forward to take up ownership of that module - or we'll decide to remove edge from freqtrade.
-
 !!! Warning
     When using `Edge positioning` with a dynamic whitelist (VolumePairList), make sure to also use `AgeFilter` and set it to at least `calculate_since_number_of_days` to avoid problems with missing data.
 

docs/exchanges.md

@@ -54,9 +54,6 @@ This configuration enables kraken, as well as rate-limiting to avoid bans from t
 
 ## Binance
 
-!!! Warning "Server location and geo-ip restrictions"
-    Please be aware that Binance restricts API access regarding the server country. The current and non-exhaustive countries blocked are Canada, Malaysia, Netherlands and United States. Please go to [binance terms > b. Eligibility](https://www.binance.com/en/terms) to find up to date list.
-
 Binance supports [time_in_force](configuration.md#understand-order_time_in_force).
 
 !!! Tip "Stoploss on Exchange"
@@ -68,8 +65,6 @@ Binance supports [time_in_force](configuration.md#understand-order_time_in_force
 For Binance, it is suggested to add `"BNB/<STAKE>"` to your blacklist to avoid issues, unless you are willing to maintain enough extra `BNB` on the account or unless you're willing to disable using `BNB` for fees.
 Binance accounts may use `BNB` for fees, and if a trade happens to be on `BNB`, further trades may consume this position and make the initial BNB trade unsellable as the expected amount is not there anymore.
 
-If not enough `BNB` is available to cover transaction fees, then fees will not be covered by `BNB` and no fee reduction will occur. Freqtrade will never buy BNB to cover for fees. BNB needs to be bought and monitored manually to this end.
-
 ### Binance sites
 
 Binance has been split into 2, and users must use the correct ccxt exchange ID for their exchange, otherwise API keys are not recognized.
@@ -77,25 +72,6 @@ Binance has been split into 2, and users must use the correct ccxt exchange ID f
 * [binance.com](https://www.binance.com/) - International users. Use exchange id: `binance`.
 * [binance.us](https://www.binance.us/) - US based users. Use exchange id: `binanceus`.
 
-### Binance RSA keys
-
-Freqtrade supports binance RSA API keys.
-
-We recommend to use them as environment variable.
-
-``` bash
-export FREQTRADE__EXCHANGE__SECRET="$(cat ./rsa_binance.private)"
-```
-
-They can however also be configured via configuration file. Since json doesn't support multi-line strings, you'll have to replace all newlines with `\n` to have a valid json file.
-
-``` json
-// ...
- "key": "<someapikey>",
- "secret": "-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\nMIIEvQIBABACAFQA<...>s8KX8=\n-----END PRIVATE KEY-----"
-// ...
-```
-
 ### Binance Futures
 
 Binance has specific (unfortunately complex) [Futures Trading Quantitative Rules](https://www.binance.com/en/support/faq/4f462ebe6ff445d4a170be7d9e897272) which need to be followed, and which prohibit a too low stake-amount (among others) for too many orders.
@@ -129,8 +105,6 @@ Freqtrade will not attempt to change these settings.
 
 ## Kraken
 
-Kraken supports [time_in_force](configuration.md#understand-order_time_in_force) with settings "GTC" (good till cancelled), "IOC" (immediate-or-cancel) and "PO" (Post only) settings.
-
 !!! Tip "Stoploss on Exchange"
     Kraken supports `stoploss_on_exchange` and can use both stop-loss-market and stop-loss-limit orders. It provides great advantages, so we recommend to benefit from it.
     You can use either `"limit"` or `"market"` in the `order_types.stoploss` configuration setting to decide which type to use.
@@ -140,41 +114,13 @@ Kraken supports [time_in_force](configuration.md#understand-order_time_in_force)
 The Kraken API does only provide 720 historic candles, which is sufficient for Freqtrade dry-run and live trade modes, but is a problem for backtesting.
 To download data for the Kraken exchange, using `--dl-trades` is mandatory, otherwise the bot will download the same 720 candles over and over, and you'll not have enough backtest data.
 
-To speed up downloading, you can download the [trades zip files](https://support.kraken.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047543791-Downloadable-historical-market-data-time-and-sales-) kraken provides.
-These are usually updated once per quarter. Freqtrade expects these files to be placed in `user_data/data/kraken/trades_csv`.
+Due to the heavy rate-limiting applied by Kraken, the following configuration section should be used to download data:
 
-A structure as follows can make sense if using incremental files, with the "full" history in one directory, and incremental files in different directories.
-The assumption for this mode is that the data is downloaded and unzipped keeping filenames as they are.
-Duplicate content will be ignored (based on timestamp) - though the assumption is that there is no gap in the data.
-
-This means, if your "full" history ends in Q4 2022 - then both incremental updates Q1 2023 and Q2 2023 are available.
-Not having this will lead to incomplete data, and therefore invalid results while using the data.
-
-```
-└── trades_csv
-    ├── Kraken_full_history
-    │   ├── BCHEUR.csv
-    │   └── XBTEUR.csv
-    ├── Kraken_Trading_History_Q1_2023
-    │   ├── BCHEUR.csv
-    │   └── XBTEUR.csv
-    └── Kraken_Trading_History_Q2_2023
-        ├── BCHEUR.csv
-        └── XBTEUR.csv
-```
-
-You can convert these files into freqtrade files:
-
-``` bash
-freqtrade convert-trade-data --exchange kraken --format-from kraken_csv --format-to feather
-# Convert trade data to different ohlcv timeframes
-freqtrade trades-to-ohlcv -p BTC/EUR BCH/EUR --exchange kraken -t 1m 5m 15m 1h
-```
-
-The converted data also makes downloading data possible, and will start the download after the latest loaded trade.
-
-``` bash
-freqtrade download-data --exchange kraken --dl-trades -p BTC/EUR BCH/EUR 
+``` json
+    "ccxt_async_config": {
+        "enableRateLimit": true,
+        "rateLimit": 3100
+    },
 ```
 
 !!! Warning "Downloading data from kraken"
@@ -185,6 +131,68 @@ freqtrade download-data --exchange kraken --dl-trades -p BTC/EUR BCH/EUR
     Please pay attention that rateLimit configuration entry holds delay in milliseconds between requests, NOT requests\sec rate.
     So, in order to mitigate Kraken API "Rate limit exceeded" exception, this configuration should be increased, NOT decreased.
 
+## Bittrex
+
+### Order types
+
+Bittrex does not support market orders. If you have a message at the bot startup about this, you should change order type values set in your configuration and/or in the strategy from `"market"` to `"limit"`. See some more details on this [here in the FAQ](faq.md#im-getting-the-exchange-bittrex-does-not-support-market-orders-message-and-cannot-run-my-strategy).
+
+Bittrex also does not support `VolumePairlist` due to limited / split API constellation at the moment.
+Please use `StaticPairlist`. Other pairlists (other than `VolumePairlist`) should not be affected.
+
+### Volume pairlist
+
+Bittrex does not support the direct usage of VolumePairList. This can however be worked around by using the advanced mode with `lookback_days: 1` (or more), which will emulate 24h volume.
+
+Read more in the [pairlist documentation](plugins.md#volumepairlist-advanced-mode).
+
+### Restricted markets
+
+Bittrex split its exchange into US and International versions.
+The International version has more pairs available, however the API always returns all pairs, so there is currently no automated way to detect if you're affected by the restriction.
+
+If you have restricted pairs in your whitelist, you'll get a warning message in the log on Freqtrade startup for each restricted pair.
+
+The warning message will look similar to the following:
+
+``` output
+[...] Message: bittrex {"success":false,"message":"RESTRICTED_MARKET","result":null,"explanation":null}"
+```
+
+If you're an "International" customer on the Bittrex exchange, then this warning will probably not impact you.
+If you're a US customer, the bot will fail to create orders for these pairs, and you should remove them from your whitelist.
+
+You can get a list of restricted markets by using the following snippet:
+
+``` python
+import ccxt
+ct = ccxt.bittrex()
+lm = ct.load_markets()
+
+res = [p for p, x in lm.items() if 'US' in x['info']['prohibitedIn']]
+print(res)
+```
+
+## FTX
+
+!!! Tip "Stoploss on Exchange"
+    FTX supports `stoploss_on_exchange` and can use both stop-loss-market and stop-loss-limit orders. It provides great advantages, so we recommend to benefit from it.
+    You can use either `"limit"` or `"market"` in the `order_types.stoploss` configuration setting to decide which type of stoploss shall be used.
+
+### Using subaccounts
+
+To use subaccounts with FTX, you need to edit the configuration and add the following:
+
+``` json
+"exchange": {
+    "ccxt_config": {
+        "headers": {
+            "FTX-SUBACCOUNT": "name"
+        }
+    },
+}
+```
+
 ## Kucoin
 
 Kucoin requires a passphrase for each api key, you will therefore need to add this key into the configuration so your exchange section looks as follows:
@@ -210,10 +218,10 @@ Kucoin supports [time_in_force](configuration.md#understand-order_time_in_force)
 For Kucoin, it is suggested to add `"KCS/<STAKE>"` to your blacklist to avoid issues, unless you are willing to maintain enough extra `KCS` on the account or unless you're willing to disable using `KCS` for fees. 
 Kucoin accounts may use `KCS` for fees, and if a trade happens to be on `KCS`, further trades may consume this position and make the initial `KCS` trade unsellable as the expected amount is not there anymore.
 
-## HTX (formerly Huobi)
+## Huobi
 
 !!! Tip "Stoploss on Exchange"
-    HTX supports `stoploss_on_exchange` and uses `stop-limit` orders. It provides great advantages, so we recommend to benefit from it by enabling stoploss on exchange.
+    Huobi supports `stoploss_on_exchange` and uses `stop-limit` orders. It provides great advantages, so we recommend to benefit from it by enabling stoploss on exchange.
 
 ## OKX (former OKEX)
 
@@ -233,8 +241,8 @@ OKX requires a passphrase for each api key, you will therefore need to add this
     OKX only provides 100 candles per api call. Therefore, the strategy will only have a pretty low amount of data available in backtesting mode.
 
 !!! Warning "Futures"
-    OKX Futures has the concept of "position mode" - which can be "Buy/Sell" or long/short (hedge mode).
-    Freqtrade supports both modes (we recommend to use Buy/Sell mode) - but changing the mode mid-trading is not supported and will lead to exceptions and failures to place trades.
+    OKX Futures has the concept of "position mode" - which can be Net or long/short (hedge mode).
+    Freqtrade supports both modes (we recommend to use net mode) - but changing the mode mid-trading is not supported and will lead to exceptions and failures to place trades.
     OKX also only provides MARK candles for the past ~3 months. Backtesting futures prior to that date will therefore lead to slight deviations, as funding-fees cannot be calculated correctly without this data.
 
 ## Gate.io
@@ -245,43 +253,6 @@ OKX requires a passphrase for each api key, you will therefore need to add this
 Gate.io allows the use of `POINT` to pay for fees. As this is not a tradable currency (no regular market available), automatic fee calculations will fail (and default to a fee of 0).
 The configuration parameter `exchange.unknown_fee_rate` can be used to specify the exchange rate between Point and the stake currency. Obviously, changing the stake-currency will also require changes to this value.
 
-## Bybit
-
-Futures trading on bybit is currently supported for USDT markets, and will use isolated futures mode.
-Users with unified accounts (there's no way back) can create a Sub-account which will start as "non-unified", and can therefore use isolated futures.
-On startup, freqtrade will set the position mode to "One-way Mode" for the whole (sub)account. This avoids making this call over and over again (slowing down bot operations), but means that changes to this setting may result in exceptions and errors
-
-As bybit doesn't provide funding rate history, the dry-run calculation is used for live trades as well.
-
-API Keys for live futures trading (Subaccount on non-unified) must have the following permissions:
-* Read-write
-* Contract - Orders
-* Contract - Positions
-
-We do strongly recommend to limit all API keys to the IP you're going to use it from.
-
-!!! Tip "Stoploss on Exchange"
-    Bybit (futures only) supports `stoploss_on_exchange` and uses `stop-loss-limit` orders. It provides great advantages, so we recommend to benefit from it by enabling stoploss on exchange.
-    On futures, Bybit supports both `stop-limit` as well as `stop-market` orders. You can use either `"limit"` or `"market"` in the `order_types.stoploss` configuration setting to decide which type to use.
-
-## Bitmart
-
-Bitmart requires the API key Memo (the name you give the API key) to go along with the exchange key and secret.
-It's therefore required to pass the UID as well.
-
-```json
-"exchange": {
-    "name": "bitmart",
-    "uid": "your_bitmart_api_key_memo",
-    "secret": "your_exchange_secret",
-    "password": "your_exchange_api_key_password",
-    // ...
-}
-```
-
-!!! Warning "Necessary Verification"
-    Bitmart requires Verification Lvl2 to successfully trade on the spot market through the API - even though trading via UI works just fine with just Lvl1 verification.
-
 ## All exchanges
 
 Should you experience constant errors with Nonce (like `InvalidNonce`), it is best to regenerate the API keys. Resetting Nonce is difficult and it's usually easier to regenerate the API keys.

docs/faq.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 ## Supported Markets
 
-Freqtrade supports spot trading, as well as (isolated) futures trading for some selected exchanges. Please refer to the [documentation start page](index.md#supported-futures-exchanges-experimental) for an uptodate list of supported exchanges.
+Freqtrade supports spot trading only.
 
 ### Can my bot open short positions?
 
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Futures trading is supported for selected exchanges. Please refer to the [docume
 
 * When you work with your strategy & hyperopt file you should use a proper code editor like VSCode or PyCharm. A good code editor will provide syntax highlighting as well as line numbers, making it easy to find syntax errors (most likely pointed out by Freqtrade during startup).
 
-## Freqtrade common questions
+## Freqtrade common issues
 
 ### Can freqtrade open multiple positions on the same pair in parallel?
 
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Running the bot with `freqtrade trade --config config.json` shows the output `fr
 This could be caused by the following reasons:
 
 * The virtual environment is not active.
-  * Run `source .venv/bin/activate` to activate the virtual environment.
+  * Run `source .env/bin/activate` to activate the virtual environment.
 * The installation did not complete successfully.
   * Please check the [Installation documentation](installation.md).
 
@@ -78,14 +78,6 @@ Where possible (e.g. on binance), the use of the exchange's dedicated fee curren
 On binance, it's sufficient to have BNB in your account, and have "Pay fees in BNB" enabled in your profile. Your BNB balance will slowly decline (as it's used to pay fees) - but you'll no longer encounter dust (Freqtrade will include the fees in the profit calculations).
 Other exchanges don't offer such possibilities, where it's simply something you'll have to accept or move to a different exchange.
 
-### I deposited more funds to the exchange, but my bot doesn't recognize this
-
-Freqtrade will update the exchange balance when necessary (Before placing an order).
-RPC calls (Telegram's `/balance`, API calls to `/balance`) can trigger an update at max. once per hour.
-
-If `adjust_trade_position` is enabled (and the bot has open trades eligible for position adjustments) - then the wallets will be refreshed once per hour.
-To force an immediate update, you can use `/reload_config` - which will restart the bot.
-
 ### I want to use incomplete candles
 
 Freqtrade will not provide incomplete candles to strategies. Using incomplete candles will lead to repainting and consequently to strategies with "ghost" buys, which are impossible to both backtest, and verify after they happened.
@@ -110,12 +102,6 @@ If this happens for all pairs in the pairlist, this might indicate a recent exch
 
 Irrespectively of the reason, Freqtrade will fill up these candles with "empty" candles, where open, high, low and close are set to the previous candle close - and volume is empty. In a chart, this will look like a `_` - and is aligned with how exchanges usually represent 0 volume candles.
 
-### I'm getting "Price jump between 2 candles detected"
-
-This message is a warning that the candles had a price jump of > 30%.
-This might be a sign that the pair stopped trading, and some token exchange took place (e.g. COCOS in 2021 - where price jumped from 0.0000154 to 0.01621).
-This message is often accompanied by ["Missing data fillup"](#im-getting-missing-data-fillup-messages-in-the-log) - as trading on such pairs is often stopped for some time.
-
 ### I'm getting "Outdated history for pair xxx" in the log
 
 The bot is trying to tell you that it got an outdated last candle (not the last complete candle).
@@ -128,9 +114,15 @@ This warning can point to one of the below problems:
 * Barely traded pair -> Check the pair on the exchange webpage, look at the timeframe your strategy uses. If the pair does not have any volume in some candles (usually visualized with a "volume 0" bar, and a "_" as candle), this pair did not have any trades in this timeframe. These pairs should ideally be avoided, as they can cause problems with order-filling.
 * API problem -> API returns wrong data (this only here for completeness, and should not happen with supported exchanges).
 
+### I'm getting the "RESTRICTED_MARKET" message in the log
+
+Currently known to happen for US Bittrex users.
+
+Read [the Bittrex section about restricted markets](exchanges.md#restricted-markets) for more information.
+
 ### I'm getting the "Exchange XXX does not support market orders." message and cannot run my strategy
 
-As the message says, your exchange does not support market orders and you have one of the [order types](configuration.md/#understand-order_types) set to "market". Your strategy was probably written with other exchanges in mind and sets "market" orders for "stoploss" orders, which is correct and preferable for most of the exchanges supporting market orders (but not for Gate.io).
+As the message says, your exchange does not support market orders and you have one of the [order types](configuration.md/#understand-order_types) set to "market". Your strategy was probably written with other exchanges in mind and sets "market" orders for "stoploss" orders, which is correct and preferable for most of the exchanges supporting market orders (but not for Bittrex and Gate.io).
 
 To fix this, redefine order types in the strategy to use "limit" instead of "market":
 
@@ -144,13 +136,6 @@ To fix this, redefine order types in the strategy to use "limit" instead of "mar
 
 The same fix should be applied in the configuration file, if order types are defined in your custom config rather than in the strategy.
 
-### I'm trying to start the bot live, but get an API permission error
-
-Errors like `Invalid API-key, IP, or permissions for action` mean exactly what they actually say.
-Your API key is either invalid (copy/paste error? check for leading/trailing spaces in the config), expired, or the IP you're running the bot from is not enabled in the Exchange's API console.
-Usually, the permission "Spot Trading" (or the equivalent in the exchange you use) will be necessary.
-Futures will usually have to be enabled specifically.
-
 ### How do I search the bot logs for something?
 
 By default, the bot writes its log into stderr stream. This is implemented this way so that you can easily separate the bot's diagnostics messages from Backtesting, Edge and Hyperopt results, output from other various Freqtrade utility sub-commands, as well as from the output of your custom `print()`'s you may have inserted into your strategy. So if you need to search the log messages with the grep utility, you need to redirect stderr to stdout and disregard stdout.
@@ -257,26 +242,8 @@ The Edge module is mostly a result of brainstorming of [@mishaker](https://githu
 You can find further info on expectancy, win rate, risk management and position size in the following sources:
 
 - https://www.tradeciety.com/ultimate-math-guide-for-traders/
+- http://www.vantharp.com/tharp-concepts/expectancy.asp
 - https://samuraitradingacademy.com/trading-expectancy/
 - https://www.learningmarkets.com/determining-expectancy-in-your-trading/
-- https://www.lonestocktrader.com/make-money-trading-positive-expectancy/
+- http://www.lonestocktrader.com/make-money-trading-positive-expectancy/
 - https://www.babypips.com/trading/trade-expectancy-matter
-
-## Official channels
-
-Freqtrade is using exclusively the following official channels:
-
-* [Freqtrade discord server](https://discord.gg/p7nuUNVfP7)
-* [Freqtrade documentation (https://freqtrade.io)](https://freqtrade.io)
-* [Freqtrade github organization](https://github.com/freqtrade)
-
-Nobody affiliated with the freqtrade project will ask you about your exchange keys or anything else exposing your funds to exploitation.
-Should you be asked to expose your exchange keys or send funds to some random wallet, then please don't follow these instructions.
-
-Failing to follow these guidelines will not be responsibility of freqtrade.
-
-## "Freqtrade token"
-
-Freqtrade does not have a Crypto token offering.
-
-Token offerings you find on the internet referring Freqtrade, FreqAI or freqUI must be considered to be a scam, trying to exploit freqtrade's popularity for their own, nefarious gains.

docs/freqai-configuration.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ FreqAI is configured through the typical [Freqtrade config file](configuration.m
 ```json
     "freqai": {
         "enabled": true,
-        "purge_old_models": 2,
+        "purge_old_models": true,
         "train_period_days": 30,
         "backtest_period_days": 7,
         "identifier" : "unique-id",
@@ -26,15 +26,15 @@ FreqAI is configured through the typical [Freqtrade config file](configuration.m
         },
         "data_split_parameters" : {
             "test_size": 0.25
-        }
+        },
+        "model_training_parameters" : {
+            "n_estimators": 100
+        },
     }
 ```
 
 A full example config is available in `config_examples/config_freqai.example.json`.
 
-!!! Note
-    The `identifier` is commonly overlooked by newcomers, however, this value plays an important role in your configuration. This value is a unique ID that you choose to describe one of your runs. Keeping it the same allows you to maintain crash resilience as well as faster backtesting. As soon as you want to try a new run (new features, new model, etc.), you should change this value (or delete the `user_data/models/unique-id` folder. More details available in the [parameter table](freqai-parameter-table.md#feature-parameters).
-
 ## Building a FreqAI strategy
 
 The FreqAI strategy requires including the following lines of code in the standard [Freqtrade strategy](strategy-customization.md):
@@ -46,114 +46,119 @@ The FreqAI strategy requires including the following lines of code in the standa
 
     def populate_indicators(self, dataframe: DataFrame, metadata: dict) -> DataFrame:
 
-        # the model will return all labels created by user in `set_freqai_targets()`
+        # the model will return all labels created by user in `populate_any_indicators`
         # (& appended targets), an indication of whether or not the prediction should be accepted,
         # the target mean/std values for each of the labels created by user in
-        # `set_freqai_targets()` for each training period.
+        # `populate_any_indicators()` for each training period.
 
         dataframe = self.freqai.start(dataframe, metadata, self)
 
         return dataframe
 
-    def feature_engineering_expand_all(self, dataframe: DataFrame, period, **kwargs) -> DataFrame:
+    def populate_any_indicators(
+        self, pair, df, tf, informative=None, set_generalized_indicators=False
+    ):
         """
-        *Only functional with FreqAI enabled strategies*
-        This function will automatically expand the defined features on the config defined
-        `indicator_periods_candles`, `include_timeframes`, `include_shifted_candles`, and
-        `include_corr_pairs`. In other words, a single feature defined in this function
-        will automatically expand to a total of
-        `indicator_periods_candles` * `include_timeframes` * `include_shifted_candles` *
-        `include_corr_pairs` numbers of features added to the model.
-
-        All features must be prepended with `%` to be recognized by FreqAI internals.
-
-        :param df: strategy dataframe which will receive the features
-        :param period: period of the indicator - usage example:
-        dataframe["%-ema-period"] = ta.EMA(dataframe, timeperiod=period)
+        Function designed to automatically generate, name and merge features
+        from user indicated timeframes in the configuration file. User controls the indicators
+        passed to the training/prediction by prepending indicators with `'%-' + coin `
+        (see convention below). I.e. user should not prepend any supporting metrics
+        (e.g. bb_lowerband below) with % unless they explicitly want to pass that metric to the
+        model.
+        :param pair: pair to be used as informative
+        :param df: strategy dataframe which will receive merges from informatives
+        :param tf: timeframe of the dataframe which will modify the feature names
+        :param informative: the dataframe associated with the informative pair
+        :param coin: the name of the coin which will modify the feature names.
         """
 
-        dataframe["%-rsi-period"] = ta.RSI(dataframe, timeperiod=period)
-        dataframe["%-mfi-period"] = ta.MFI(dataframe, timeperiod=period)
-        dataframe["%-adx-period"] = ta.ADX(dataframe, timeperiod=period)
-        dataframe["%-sma-period"] = ta.SMA(dataframe, timeperiod=period)
-        dataframe["%-ema-period"] = ta.EMA(dataframe, timeperiod=period)
+        coin = pair.split('/')[0]
 
-        return dataframe
+        if informative is None:
+            informative = self.dp.get_pair_dataframe(pair, tf)
 
-    def feature_engineering_expand_basic(self, dataframe: DataFrame, **kwargs) -> DataFrame:
-        """
-        *Only functional with FreqAI enabled strategies*
-        This function will automatically expand the defined features on the config defined
-        `include_timeframes`, `include_shifted_candles`, and `include_corr_pairs`.
-        In other words, a single feature defined in this function
-        will automatically expand to a total of
-        `include_timeframes` * `include_shifted_candles` * `include_corr_pairs`
-        numbers of features added to the model.
+        # first loop is automatically duplicating indicators for time periods
+        for t in self.freqai_info["feature_parameters"]["indicator_periods_candles"]:
+            t = int(t)
+            informative[f"%-{coin}rsi-period_{t}"] = ta.RSI(informative, timeperiod=t)
+            informative[f"%-{coin}mfi-period_{t}"] = ta.MFI(informative, timeperiod=t)
+            informative[f"%-{coin}adx-period_{t}"] = ta.ADX(informative, window=t)
 
-        Features defined here will *not* be automatically duplicated on user defined
-        `indicator_periods_candles`
+        indicators = [col for col in informative if col.startswith("%")]
+        # This loop duplicates and shifts all indicators to add a sense of recency to data
+        for n in range(self.freqai_info["feature_parameters"]["include_shifted_candles"] + 1):
+            if n == 0:
+                continue
+            informative_shift = informative[indicators].shift(n)
+            informative_shift = informative_shift.add_suffix("_shift-" + str(n))
+            informative = pd.concat((informative, informative_shift), axis=1)
 
-        All features must be prepended with `%` to be recognized by FreqAI internals.
+        df = merge_informative_pair(df, informative, self.config["timeframe"], tf, ffill=True)
+        skip_columns = [
+            (s + "_" + tf) for s in ["date", "open", "high", "low", "close", "volume"]
+        ]
+        df = df.drop(columns=skip_columns)
 
-        :param df: strategy dataframe which will receive the features
-        dataframe["%-pct-change"] = dataframe["close"].pct_change()
-        dataframe["%-ema-200"] = ta.EMA(dataframe, timeperiod=200)
-        """
-        dataframe["%-pct-change"] = dataframe["close"].pct_change()
-        dataframe["%-raw_volume"] = dataframe["volume"]
-        dataframe["%-raw_price"] = dataframe["close"]
-        return dataframe
+        # Add generalized indicators here (because in live, it will call this
+        # function to populate indicators during training). Notice how we ensure not to
+        # add them multiple times
+        if set_generalized_indicators:
 
-    def feature_engineering_standard(self, dataframe: DataFrame, **kwargs) -> DataFrame:
-        """
-        *Only functional with FreqAI enabled strategies*
-        This optional function will be called once with the dataframe of the base timeframe.
-        This is the final function to be called, which means that the dataframe entering this
-        function will contain all the features and columns created by all other
-        freqai_feature_engineering_* functions.
-
-        This function is a good place to do custom exotic feature extractions (e.g. tsfresh).
-        This function is a good place for any feature that should not be auto-expanded upon
-        (e.g. day of the week).
-
-        All features must be prepended with `%` to be recognized by FreqAI internals.
-
-        :param df: strategy dataframe which will receive the features
-        usage example: dataframe["%-day_of_week"] = (dataframe["date"].dt.dayofweek + 1) / 7
-        """
-        dataframe["%-day_of_week"] = (dataframe["date"].dt.dayofweek + 1) / 7
-        dataframe["%-hour_of_day"] = (dataframe["date"].dt.hour + 1) / 25
-        return dataframe
-
-    def set_freqai_targets(self, dataframe: DataFrame, **kwargs) -> DataFrame:
-        """
-        *Only functional with FreqAI enabled strategies*
-        Required function to set the targets for the model.
-        All targets must be prepended with `&` to be recognized by the FreqAI internals.
-
-        :param df: strategy dataframe which will receive the targets
-        usage example: dataframe["&-target"] = dataframe["close"].shift(-1) / dataframe["close"]
-        """
-        dataframe["&-s_close"] = (
-            dataframe["close"]
-            .shift(-self.freqai_info["feature_parameters"]["label_period_candles"])
-            .rolling(self.freqai_info["feature_parameters"]["label_period_candles"])
-            .mean()
-            / dataframe["close"]
-            - 1
+            # user adds targets here by prepending them with &- (see convention below)
+            # If user wishes to use multiple targets, a multioutput prediction model
+            # needs to be used such as templates/CatboostPredictionMultiModel.py
+            df["&-s_close"] = (
+                df["close"]
+                .shift(-self.freqai_info["feature_parameters"]["label_period_candles"])
+                .rolling(self.freqai_info["feature_parameters"]["label_period_candles"])
+                .mean()
+                / df["close"]
+                - 1
             )
-        return dataframe
+
+        return df
+
+
 ```
 
-Notice how the `feature_engineering_*()` is where [features](freqai-feature-engineering.md#feature-engineering) are added. Meanwhile `set_freqai_targets()` adds the labels/targets. A full example strategy is available in `templates/FreqaiExampleStrategy.py`.
+Notice how the `populate_any_indicators()` is where [features](freqai-feature-engineering.md#feature-engineering) and labels/targets are added. A full example strategy is available in `templates/FreqaiExampleStrategy.py`. 
+
+Notice also the location of the labels under `if set_generalized_indicators:` at the bottom of the example. This is where single features and labels/targets should be added to the feature set to avoid duplication of them from various configuration parameters that multiply the feature set, such as `include_timeframes`.
 
 !!! Note
     The `self.freqai.start()` function cannot be called outside the `populate_indicators()`.
 
 !!! Note
-    Features **must** be defined in `feature_engineering_*()`. Defining FreqAI features in `populate_indicators()`
-    will cause the algorithm to fail in live/dry mode. In order to add generalized features that are not associated with a specific pair or timeframe, you should use `feature_engineering_standard()`
-    (as exemplified in `freqtrade/templates/FreqaiExampleStrategy.py`).
+    Features **must** be defined in `populate_any_indicators()`. Defining FreqAI features in `populate_indicators()`
+    will cause the algorithm to fail in live/dry mode. In order to add generalized features that are not associated with a specific pair or timeframe, the following structure inside `populate_any_indicators()` should be used
+    (as exemplified in `freqtrade/templates/FreqaiExampleStrategy.py`):
+
+    ```python
+        def populate_any_indicators(self, metadata, pair, df, tf, informative=None, coin="", set_generalized_indicators=False):
+
+            ...
+
+            # Add generalized indicators here (because in live, it will call only this function to populate
+            # indicators for retraining). Notice how we ensure not to add them multiple times by associating
+            # these generalized indicators to the basepair/timeframe
+            if set_generalized_indicators:
+                df['%-day_of_week'] = (df["date"].dt.dayofweek + 1) / 7
+                df['%-hour_of_day'] = (df['date'].dt.hour + 1) / 25
+
+                # user adds targets here by prepending them with &- (see convention below)
+                # If user wishes to use multiple targets, a multioutput prediction model
+                # needs to be used such as templates/CatboostPredictionMultiModel.py
+                df["&-s_close"] = (
+                    df["close"]
+                    .shift(-self.freqai_info["feature_parameters"]["label_period_candles"])
+                    .rolling(self.freqai_info["feature_parameters"]["label_period_candles"])
+                    .mean()
+                    / df["close"]
+                    - 1
+                    )
+    ```
+
+    Please see the example script located in `freqtrade/templates/FreqaiExampleStrategy.py` for a full example of `populate_any_indicators()`.
 
 ## Important dataframe key patterns
 
@@ -161,19 +166,18 @@ Below are the values you can expect to include/use inside a typical strategy dat
 
 |  DataFrame Key | Description |
 |------------|-------------|
-| `df['&*']` | Any dataframe column prepended with `&` in `set_freqai_targets()` is treated as a training target (label) inside FreqAI (typically following the naming convention `&-s*`). For example, to predict the close price 40 candles into the future, you would set `df['&-s_close'] = df['close'].shift(-self.freqai_info["feature_parameters"]["label_period_candles"])` with `"label_period_candles": 40` in the config. FreqAI makes the predictions and gives them back under the same key (`df['&-s_close']`) to be used in `populate_entry/exit_trend()`. <br> **Datatype:** Depends on the output of the model.
+| `df['&*']` | Any dataframe column prepended with `&` in `populate_any_indicators()` is treated as a training target (label) inside FreqAI (typically following the naming convention `&-s*`). For example, to predict the close price 40 candles into the future, you would set `df['&-s_close'] = df['close'].shift(-self.freqai_info["feature_parameters"]["label_period_candles"])` with `"label_period_candles": 40` in the config. FreqAI makes the predictions and gives them back under the same key (`df['&-s_close']`) to be used in `populate_entry/exit_trend()`. <br> **Datatype:** Depends on the output of the model.
 | `df['&*_std/mean']` | Standard deviation and mean values of the defined labels during training (or live tracking with `fit_live_predictions_candles`). Commonly used to understand the rarity of a prediction (use the z-score as shown in `templates/FreqaiExampleStrategy.py` and explained [here](#creating-a-dynamic-target-threshold) to evaluate how often a particular prediction was observed during training or historically with `fit_live_predictions_candles`). <br> **Datatype:** Float.
-| `df['do_predict']` | Indication of an outlier data point. The return value is integer between -2 and 2, which lets you know if the prediction is trustworthy or not. `do_predict==1` means that the prediction is trustworthy. If the Dissimilarity Index (DI, see details [here](freqai-feature-engineering.md#identifying-outliers-with-the-dissimilarity-index-di)) of the input data point is above the threshold defined in the config, FreqAI will subtract 1 from `do_predict`, resulting in `do_predict==0`. If `use_SVM_to_remove_outliers` is active, the Support Vector Machine (SVM, see details [here](freqai-feature-engineering.md#identifying-outliers-using-a-support-vector-machine-svm)) may also detect outliers in training and prediction data. In this case, the SVM will also subtract 1 from `do_predict`. If the input data point was considered an outlier by the SVM but not by the DI, or vice versa, the result will be `do_predict==0`. If both the DI and the SVM considers the input data point to be an outlier, the result will be `do_predict==-1`. As with the SVM, if `use_DBSCAN_to_remove_outliers` is active, DBSCAN (see details [here](freqai-feature-engineering.md#identifying-outliers-with-dbscan)) may also detect outliers and subtract 1 from `do_predict`. Hence, if both the SVM and DBSCAN are active and identify a datapoint that was above the DI threshold as an outlier, the result will be `do_predict==-2`. A particular case is when `do_predict == 2`, which means that the model has expired due to exceeding `expired_hours`. <br> **Datatype:** Integer between -2 and 2.
+| `df['do_predict']` | Indication of an outlier data point. The return value is integer between -2 and 2, which lets you know if the prediction is trustworthy or not. `do_predict==1` means that the prediction is trustworthy. If the Dissimilarity Index (DI, see details [here](freqai-feature-engineering.md#identifying-outliers-with-the-dissimilarity-index-di)) of the input data point is above the threshold defined in the config, FreqAI will subtract 1 from `do_predict`, resulting in `do_predict==0`. If `use_SVM_to_remove_outliers()` is active, the Support Vector Machine (SVM, see details [here](freqai-feature-engineering.md#identifying-outliers-using-a-support-vector-machine-svm)) may also detect outliers in training and prediction data. In this case, the SVM will also subtract 1 from `do_predict`. If the input data point was considered an outlier by the SVM but not by the DI, or vice versa, the result will be `do_predict==0`. If both the DI and the SVM considers the input data point to be an outlier, the result will be `do_predict==-1`. As with the SVM, if `use_DBSCAN_to_remove_outliers` is active, DBSCAN (see details [here](freqai-feature-engineering.md#identifying-outliers-with-dbscan)) may also detect outliers and subtract 1 from `do_predict`. Hence, if both the SVM and DBSCAN are active and identify a datapoint that was above the DI threshold as an outlier, the result will be `do_predict==-2`. A particular case is when `do_predict == 2`, which means that the model has expired due to exceeding `expired_hours`. <br> **Datatype:** Integer between -2 and 2.
 | `df['DI_values']` | Dissimilarity Index (DI) values are proxies for the level of confidence FreqAI has in the prediction. A lower DI means the prediction is close to the training data, i.e., higher prediction confidence. See details about the DI [here](freqai-feature-engineering.md#identifying-outliers-with-the-dissimilarity-index-di). <br> **Datatype:** Float.
-| `df['%*']` | Any dataframe column prepended with `%` in `feature_engineering_*()` is treated as a training feature. For example, you can include the RSI in the training feature set (similar to in `templates/FreqaiExampleStrategy.py`) by setting `df['%-rsi']`. See more details on how this is done [here](freqai-feature-engineering.md). <br> **Note:** Since the number of features prepended with `%` can multiply very quickly (10s of thousands of features are easily engineered using the multiplictative functionality of, e.g., `include_shifted_candles` and `include_timeframes` as described in the [parameter table](freqai-parameter-table.md)), these features are removed from the dataframe that is returned from FreqAI to the strategy. To keep a particular type of feature for plotting purposes, you would prepend it with `%%` (see details below). <br> **Datatype:** Depends on the feature created by the user.
-| `df['%%*']` | Any dataframe column prepended with `%%` in `feature_engineering_*()` is treated as a training feature, just the same as the above `%` prepend. However, in this case, the features are returned back to the strategy for FreqUI/plot-dataframe plotting and monitoring in Dry/Live/Backtesting <br> **Datatype:** Depends on the feature created by the user. Please note that features created in `feature_engineering_expand()` will have automatic FreqAI naming schemas depending on the expansions that you configured (i.e. `include_timeframes`, `include_corr_pairlist`, `indicators_periods_candles`, `include_shifted_candles`). So if you want to plot `%%-rsi` from `feature_engineering_expand_all()`, the final naming scheme for your plotting config would be: `%%-rsi-period_10_ETH/USDT:USDT_1h` for the `rsi` feature with `period=10`, `timeframe=1h`, and `pair=ETH/USDT:USDT` (the `:USDT` is added if you are using futures pairs). It is useful to simply add `print(dataframe.columns)` in your `populate_indicators()` after `self.freqai.start()` to see the full list of available features that are returned to the strategy for plotting purposes.
+| `df['%*']` | Any dataframe column prepended with `%` in `populate_any_indicators()` is treated as a training feature. For example, you can include the RSI in the training feature set (similar to in `templates/FreqaiExampleStrategy.py`) by setting `df['%-rsi']`. See more details on how this is done [here](freqai-feature-engineering.md). <br> **Note:** Since the number of features prepended with `%` can multiply very quickly (10s of thousands of features are easily engineered using the multiplictative functionality of, e.g., `include_shifted_candles` and `include_timeframes` as described in the [parameter table](freqai-parameter-table.md)), these features are removed from the dataframe that is returned from FreqAI to the strategy. To keep a particular type of feature for plotting purposes, you would prepend it with `%%`. <br> **Datatype:** Depends on the output of the model.
 
 ## Setting the `startup_candle_count`
 
-The `startup_candle_count` in the FreqAI strategy needs to be set up in the same way as in the standard Freqtrade strategy (see details [here](strategy-customization.md#strategy-startup-period)). This value is used by Freqtrade to ensure that a sufficient amount of data is provided when calling the `dataprovider`, to avoid any NaNs at the beginning of the first training. You can easily set this value by identifying the longest period (in candle units) which is passed to the indicator creation functions (e.g., TA-Lib functions). In the presented example, `startup_candle_count` is 20 since this is the maximum value in `indicators_periods_candles`.
+The `startup_candle_count` in the FreqAI strategy needs to be set up in the same way as in the standard Freqtrade strategy (see details [here](strategy-customization.md#strategy-startup-period)). This value is used by Freqtrade to ensure that a sufficient amount of data is provided when calling the `dataprovider`, to avoid any NaNs at the beginning of the first training. You can easily set this value by identifying the longest period (in candle units) which is passed to the indicator creation functions (e.g., Ta-Lib functions). In the presented example, `startup_candle_count` is 20 since this is the maximum value in `indicators_periods_candles`.
 
 !!! Note
-    There are instances where the TA-Lib functions actually require more data than just the passed `period` or else the feature dataset gets populated with NaNs. Anecdotally, multiplying the `startup_candle_count` by 2 always leads to a fully NaN free training dataset. Hence, it is typically safest to multiply the expected `startup_candle_count` by 2. Look out for this log message to confirm that the data is clean:
+    There are instances where the Ta-Lib functions actually require more data than just the passed `period` or else the feature dataset gets populated with NaNs. Anecdotally, multiplying the `startup_candle_count` by 2 always leads to a fully NaN free training dataset. Hence, it is typically safest to multiply the expected `startup_candle_count` by 2. Look out for this log message to confirm that the data is clean:
 
     ```
     2022-08-31 15:14:04 - freqtrade.freqai.data_kitchen - INFO - dropped 0 training points due to NaNs in populated dataset 4319.
@@ -181,18 +185,18 @@ The `startup_candle_count` in the FreqAI strategy needs to be set up in the same
 
 ## Creating a dynamic target threshold
 
-Deciding when to enter or exit a trade can be done in a dynamic way to reflect current market conditions. FreqAI allows you to return additional information from the training of a model (more info [here](freqai-feature-engineering.md#returning-additional-info-from-training)). For example, the `&*_std/mean` return values describe the statistical distribution of the target/label *during the most recent training*. Comparing a given prediction to these values allows you to know the rarity of the prediction. In `templates/FreqaiExampleStrategy.py`, the `target_roi` and  `sell_roi` are defined to be 1.25 z-scores away from the mean which causes predictions that are closer to the mean to be filtered out.
+Deciding when to enter or exit a trade can be done in a dynamic way to reflect current market conditions. FreqAI allows you to return additional information from the training of a model (more info [here](freqai-feature-engineering.md#returning-additional-info-from-training)). For example, the `&*_std/mean` return values describe the statistical distribution of the target/label *during the most recent training*. Comparing a given prediction to these values allows you to know the rarity of the prediction. In `templates/FreqaiExampleStrategy.py`, the `target_roi` and  `sell_roi` are defined to be 1.25 z-scores away from the mean which causes predictions that are closer to the mean to be filtered out. 
 
 ```python
 dataframe["target_roi"] = dataframe["&-s_close_mean"] + dataframe["&-s_close_std"] * 1.25
 dataframe["sell_roi"] = dataframe["&-s_close_mean"] - dataframe["&-s_close_std"] * 1.25
 ```
 
-To consider the population of *historical predictions* for creating the dynamic target instead of information from the training as discussed above, you would set `fit_live_predictions_candles` in the config to the number of historical prediction candles you wish to use to generate target statistics.
+To consider the population of *historical predictions* for creating the dynamic target instead of information from the training as discussed above, you would set `fit_live_prediction_candles` in the config to the number of historical prediction candles you wish to use to generate target statistics.
 
 ```json
     "freqai": {
-        "fit_live_predictions_candles": 300,
+        "fit_live_prediction_candles": 300,
     }
 ```
 
@@ -200,222 +204,14 @@ If this value is set, FreqAI will initially use the predictions from the trainin
 
 ## Using different prediction models
 
-FreqAI has multiple example prediction model libraries that are ready to be used as is via the flag `--freqaimodel`. These libraries include `CatBoost`, `LightGBM`, and `XGBoost` regression, classification, and multi-target models, and can be found in `freqai/prediction_models/`.
+FreqAI has multiple example prediction model libraries that are ready to be used as is via the flag `--freqaimodel`. These libraries include `Catboost`, `LightGBM`, and `XGBoost` regression, classification, and multi-target models, and can be found in `freqai/prediction_models/`. However, it is possible to customize and create your own prediction models using the `IFreqaiModel` class. You are encouraged to inherit `fit()`, `train()`, and `predict()` to let these customize various aspects of the training procedures.
 
-Regression and classification models differ in what targets they predict - a regression model will predict a target of continuous values, for example what price BTC will be at tomorrow, whilst a classifier will predict a target of discrete values, for example if the price of BTC will go up tomorrow or not. This means that you have to specify your targets differently depending on which model type you are using (see details [below](#setting-model-targets)).
+### Setting classifier targets
 
-All of the aforementioned model libraries implement gradient boosted decision tree algorithms. They all work on the principle of ensemble learning, where predictions from multiple simple learners are combined to get a final prediction that is more stable and generalized. The simple learners in this case are decision trees. Gradient boosting refers to the method of learning, where each simple learner is built in sequence - the subsequent learner is used to improve on the error from the previous learner. If you want to learn more about the different model libraries you can find the information in their respective docs:
-
-* CatBoost: https://catboost.ai/en/docs/
-* LightGBM: https://lightgbm.readthedocs.io/en/v3.3.2/#
-* XGBoost: https://xgboost.readthedocs.io/en/stable/#
-
-There are also numerous online articles describing and comparing the algorithms. Some relatively lightweight examples would be [CatBoost vs. LightGBM vs. XGBoost — Which is the best algorithm?](https://towardsdatascience.com/catboost-vs-lightgbm-vs-xgboost-c80f40662924#:~:text=In%20CatBoost%2C%20symmetric%20trees%2C%20or,the%20same%20depth%20can%20differ.) and [XGBoost, LightGBM or CatBoost — which boosting algorithm should I use?](https://medium.com/riskified-technology/xgboost-lightgbm-or-catboost-which-boosting-algorithm-should-i-use-e7fda7bb36bc). Keep in mind that the performance of each model is highly dependent on the application and so any reported metrics might not be true for your particular use of the model.
-
-Apart from the models already available in FreqAI, it is also possible to customize and create your own prediction models using the `IFreqaiModel` class. You are encouraged to inherit `fit()`, `train()`, and `predict()` to customize various aspects of the training procedures. You can place custom FreqAI models in `user_data/freqaimodels` - and freqtrade will pick them up from there based on the provided `--freqaimodel` name - which has to correspond to the class name of your custom model.
-Make sure to use unique names to avoid overriding built-in models.
-
-### Setting model targets
-
-#### Regressors
-
-If you are using a regressor, you need to specify a target that has continuous values. FreqAI includes a variety of regressors, such as the `CatboostRegressor`via the flag `--freqaimodel CatboostRegressor`. An example of how you could set a regression target for predicting the price 100 candles into the future would be
-
-```python
-df['&s-close_price'] = df['close'].shift(-100)
-```
-
-If you want to predict multiple targets, you need to define multiple labels using the same syntax as shown above.
-
-#### Classifiers
-
-If you are using a classifier, you need to specify a target that has discrete values. FreqAI includes a variety of classifiers, such as the `CatboostClassifier` via the flag `--freqaimodel CatboostClassifier`. If you elects to use a classifier, the classes need to be set using strings. For example, if you want to predict if the price 100 candles into the future goes up or down you would set
+FreqAI includes a variety of classifiers, such as the `CatboostClassifier` via the flag `--freqaimodel CatboostClassifier`. If you elects to use a classifier, the classes need to be set using strings. For example:
 
 ```python
 df['&s-up_or_down'] = np.where( df["close"].shift(-100) > df["close"], 'up', 'down')
 ```
 
-If you want to predict multiple targets you must specify all labels in the same label column. You could, for example, add the label `same` to define where the price was unchanged by setting
-
-```python
-df['&s-up_or_down'] = np.where( df["close"].shift(-100) > df["close"], 'up', 'down')
-df['&s-up_or_down'] = np.where( df["close"].shift(-100) == df["close"], 'same', df['&s-up_or_down'])
-```
-
-## PyTorch Module
-
-### Quick start
-
-The easiest way to quickly run a pytorch model is with the following command (for regression task):
-
-```bash
-freqtrade trade --config config_examples/config_freqai.example.json --strategy FreqaiExampleStrategy --freqaimodel PyTorchMLPRegressor --strategy-path freqtrade/templates 
-```
-
-!!! Note "Installation/docker"
-    The PyTorch module requires large packages such as `torch`, which should be explicitly requested during `./setup.sh -i` by answering "y" to the question "Do you also want dependencies for freqai-rl or PyTorch (~700mb additional space required) [y/N]?".
-    Users who prefer docker should ensure they use the docker image appended with `_freqaitorch`.
-    We do provide an explicit docker-compose file for this in `docker/docker-compose-freqai.yml` - which can be used via `docker compose -f docker/docker-compose-freqai.yml run ...` - or can be copied to replace the original docker file.
-    This docker-compose file also contains a (disabled) section to enable GPU resources within docker containers. This obviously assumes the system has GPU resources available.
-
-### Structure
-
-#### Model
-
-You can construct your own Neural Network architecture in PyTorch by simply defining your `nn.Module` class inside your custom [`IFreqaiModel` file](#using-different-prediction-models) and then using that class in your `def train()` function. Here is an example of logistic regression model implementation using PyTorch (should be used with nn.BCELoss criterion) for classification tasks.
-
-```python
-
-class LogisticRegression(nn.Module):
-    def __init__(self, input_size: int):
-        super().__init__()
-        # Define your layers
-        self.linear = nn.Linear(input_size, 1)
-        self.activation = nn.Sigmoid()
-
-    def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
-        # Define the forward pass
-        out = self.linear(x)
-        out = self.activation(out)
-        return out
-
-class MyCoolPyTorchClassifier(BasePyTorchClassifier):
-    """
-    This is a custom IFreqaiModel showing how a user might setup their own 
-    custom Neural Network architecture for their training.
-    """
-
-    @property
-    def data_convertor(self) -> PyTorchDataConvertor:
-        return DefaultPyTorchDataConvertor(target_tensor_type=torch.float)
-
-    def __init__(self, **kwargs) -> None:
-        super().__init__(**kwargs)
-        config = self.freqai_info.get("model_training_parameters", {})
-        self.learning_rate: float = config.get("learning_rate",  3e-4)
-        self.model_kwargs: Dict[str, Any] = config.get("model_kwargs",  {})
-        self.trainer_kwargs: Dict[str, Any] = config.get("trainer_kwargs",  {})
-
-    def fit(self, data_dictionary: Dict, dk: FreqaiDataKitchen, **kwargs) -> Any:
-        """
-        User sets up the training and test data to fit their desired model here
-        :param data_dictionary: the dictionary holding all data for train, test,
-            labels, weights
-        :param dk: The datakitchen object for the current coin/model
-        """
-
-        class_names = self.get_class_names()
-        self.convert_label_column_to_int(data_dictionary, dk, class_names)
-        n_features = data_dictionary["train_features"].shape[-1]
-        model = LogisticRegression(
-            input_dim=n_features
-        )
-        model.to(self.device)
-        optimizer = torch.optim.AdamW(model.parameters(), lr=self.learning_rate)
-        criterion = torch.nn.CrossEntropyLoss()
-        init_model = self.get_init_model(dk.pair)
-        trainer = PyTorchModelTrainer(
-            model=model,
-            optimizer=optimizer,
-            criterion=criterion,
-            model_meta_data={"class_names": class_names},
-            device=self.device,
-            init_model=init_model,
-            data_convertor=self.data_convertor,
-            **self.trainer_kwargs,
-        )
-        trainer.fit(data_dictionary, self.splits)
-        return trainer
-
-```
-
-#### Trainer
-
-The `PyTorchModelTrainer` performs the idiomatic PyTorch train loop:
-Define our model, loss function, and optimizer, and then move them to the appropriate device (GPU or CPU). Inside the loop, we iterate through the batches in the dataloader, move the data to the device, compute the prediction and loss, backpropagate, and update the model parameters using the optimizer. 
-
-In addition, the trainer is responsible for the following:
- - saving and loading the model
- - converting the data from `pandas.DataFrame` to `torch.Tensor`. 
-
-#### Integration with Freqai module 
-
-Like all freqai models, PyTorch models inherit `IFreqaiModel`. `IFreqaiModel` declares three abstract methods: `train`, `fit`, and `predict`. we implement these methods in three levels of hierarchy.
-From top to bottom:
-
-1. `BasePyTorchModel` - Implements the `train` method. all `BasePyTorch*` inherit it. responsible for general data preparation (e.g., data normalization) and calling the `fit` method. Sets `device` attribute used by children classes. Sets `model_type` attribute used by the parent class.
-2. `BasePyTorch*` -  Implements the `predict` method. Here, the `*` represents a group of algorithms, such as classifiers or regressors. responsible for data preprocessing, predicting, and postprocessing if needed.
-3. `PyTorch*Classifier` / `PyTorch*Regressor` - implements the `fit` method. responsible for the main train flaw, where we initialize the trainer and model objects.
-
-![image](assets/freqai_pytorch-diagram.png)
-
-#### Full example
-
-Building a PyTorch regressor using MLP (multilayer perceptron) model, MSELoss criterion, and AdamW optimizer.
-
-```python
-class PyTorchMLPRegressor(BasePyTorchRegressor):
-    def __init__(self, **kwargs) -> None:
-        super().__init__(**kwargs)
-        config = self.freqai_info.get("model_training_parameters", {})
-        self.learning_rate: float = config.get("learning_rate",  3e-4)
-        self.model_kwargs: Dict[str, Any] = config.get("model_kwargs",  {})
-        self.trainer_kwargs: Dict[str, Any] = config.get("trainer_kwargs",  {})
-
-    def fit(self, data_dictionary: Dict, dk: FreqaiDataKitchen, **kwargs) -> Any:
-        n_features = data_dictionary["train_features"].shape[-1]
-        model = PyTorchMLPModel(
-            input_dim=n_features,
-            output_dim=1,
-            **self.model_kwargs
-        )
-        model.to(self.device)
-        optimizer = torch.optim.AdamW(model.parameters(), lr=self.learning_rate)
-        criterion = torch.nn.MSELoss()
-        init_model = self.get_init_model(dk.pair)
-        trainer = PyTorchModelTrainer(
-            model=model,
-            optimizer=optimizer,
-            criterion=criterion,
-            device=self.device,
-            init_model=init_model,
-            target_tensor_type=torch.float,
-            **self.trainer_kwargs,
-        )
-        trainer.fit(data_dictionary)
-        return trainer
-```
-
-Here we create a `PyTorchMLPRegressor` class that implements the `fit` method. The `fit` method specifies the training building blocks: model, optimizer, criterion, and trainer. We inherit both `BasePyTorchRegressor` and `BasePyTorchModel`, where the former implements the `predict` method that is suitable for our regression task, and the latter implements the train method.
-
-??? Note "Setting Class Names for Classifiers"
-    When using classifiers, the user must declare the class names (or targets) by overriding the `IFreqaiModel.class_names` attribute. This is achieved by setting `self.freqai.class_names` in the FreqAI strategy inside the `set_freqai_targets` method.
-    
-    For example, if you are using a binary classifier to predict price movements as up or down, you can set the class names as follows:
-    ```python
-    def set_freqai_targets(self, dataframe: DataFrame, metadata: Dict, **kwargs) -> DataFrame:
-        self.freqai.class_names = ["down", "up"]
-        dataframe['&s-up_or_down'] = np.where(dataframe["close"].shift(-100) >
-                                                  dataframe["close"], 'up', 'down')
-    
-        return dataframe
-    ```
-    To see a full example, you can refer to the [classifier test strategy class](https://github.com/freqtrade/freqtrade/blob/develop/tests/strategy/strats/freqai_test_classifier.py).
-
-
-#### Improving performance with `torch.compile()`
-
-Torch provides a `torch.compile()` method that can be used to improve performance for specific GPU hardware. More details can be found [here](https://pytorch.org/tutorials/intermediate/torch_compile_tutorial.html). In brief, you simply wrap your `model` in `torch.compile()`:
-
-
-```python
-        model = PyTorchMLPModel(
-            input_dim=n_features,
-            output_dim=1,
-            **self.model_kwargs
-        )
-        model.to(self.device)
-        model = torch.compile(model)
-```
-
-Then proceed to use the model as normal. Keep in mind that doing this will remove eager execution, which means errors and tracebacks will not be informative.
+Additionally, the example classifier models do not accommodate multiple labels, but they do allow multi-class classification within a single label column.

docs/freqai-feature-engineering.md

@@ -2,150 +2,96 @@
 
 ## Defining the features
 
-Low level feature engineering is performed in the user strategy within a set of functions called `feature_engineering_*`. These function set the `base features` such as, `RSI`, `MFI`, `EMA`, `SMA`, time of day, volume, etc. The `base features` can be custom indicators or they can be imported from any technical-analysis library that you can find. FreqAI is equipped with a set of functions to simplify rapid large-scale feature engineering:
-
-|  Function | Description |
-|---------------|-------------|
-| `feature_engineering_expand_all()` | This optional function will automatically expand the defined features on the config defined `indicator_periods_candles`, `include_timeframes`, `include_shifted_candles`, and `include_corr_pairs`.
-| `feature_engineering_expand_basic()` | This optional function will automatically expand the defined features on the config defined `include_timeframes`, `include_shifted_candles`, and `include_corr_pairs`. Note: this function does *not* expand across `indicator_periods_candles`.
-| `feature_engineering_standard()` | This optional function will be called once with the dataframe of the base timeframe. This is the final function to be called, which means that the dataframe entering this function will contain all the features and columns from the base asset created by the other `feature_engineering_expand` functions. This function is a good place to do custom exotic feature extractions (e.g. tsfresh). This function is also a good place for any feature that should not be auto-expanded upon (e.g., day of the week).
-| `set_freqai_targets()` | Required function to set the targets for the model. All targets must be prepended with `&` to be recognized by the FreqAI internals.
+Low level feature engineering is performed in the user strategy within a function called `populate_any_indicators()`. That function sets the `base features` such as, `RSI`, `MFI`, `EMA`, `SMA`, time of day, volume, etc. The `base features` can be custom indicators or they can be imported from any technical-analysis library that you can find. One important syntax rule is that all `base features` string names are prepended with `%`, while labels/targets are prepended with `&`.
 
 Meanwhile, high level feature engineering is handled within `"feature_parameters":{}` in the FreqAI config. Within this file, it is possible to decide large scale feature expansions on top of the `base_features` such as "including correlated pairs" or "including informative timeframes" or even "including recent candles."
 
-It is advisable to start from the template `feature_engineering_*` functions in the source provided example strategy (found in `templates/FreqaiExampleStrategy.py`) to ensure that the feature definitions are following the correct conventions. Here is an example of how to set the indicators and labels in the strategy:
+It is advisable to start from the template `populate_any_indicators()` in the source provided example strategy (found in `templates/FreqaiExampleStrategy.py`) to ensure that the feature definitions are following the correct conventions. Here is an example of how to set the indicators and labels in the strategy:
 
 ```python
-    def feature_engineering_expand_all(self, dataframe: DataFrame, period, metadata, **kwargs) -> DataFrame:
+    def populate_any_indicators(
+        self, pair, df, tf, informative=None, set_generalized_indicators=False
+    ):
         """
-        *Only functional with FreqAI enabled strategies*
-        This function will automatically expand the defined features on the config defined
-        `indicator_periods_candles`, `include_timeframes`, `include_shifted_candles`, and
-        `include_corr_pairs`. In other words, a single feature defined in this function
-        will automatically expand to a total of
-        `indicator_periods_candles` * `include_timeframes` * `include_shifted_candles` *
-        `include_corr_pairs` numbers of features added to the model.
-
-        All features must be prepended with `%` to be recognized by FreqAI internals.
-
-        Access metadata such as the current pair/timeframe/period with:
-
-        `metadata["pair"]` `metadata["tf"]`  `metadata["period"]`
-
-        :param df: strategy dataframe which will receive the features
-        :param period: period of the indicator - usage example:
-        :param metadata: metadata of current pair
-        dataframe["%-ema-period"] = ta.EMA(dataframe, timeperiod=period)
+        Function designed to automatically generate, name, and merge features
+        from user-indicated timeframes in the configuration file. The user controls the indicators
+        passed to the training/prediction by prepending indicators with `'%-' + coin `
+        (see convention below). I.e., the user should not prepend any supporting metrics
+        (e.g., bb_lowerband below) with % unless they explicitly want to pass that metric to the
+        model.
+        :param pair: pair to be used as informative
+        :param df: strategy dataframe which will receive merges from informatives
+        :param tf: timeframe of the dataframe which will modify the feature names
+        :param informative: the dataframe associated with the informative pair
+        :param coin: the name of the coin which will modify the feature names.
         """
 
-        dataframe["%-rsi-period"] = ta.RSI(dataframe, timeperiod=period)
-        dataframe["%-mfi-period"] = ta.MFI(dataframe, timeperiod=period)
-        dataframe["%-adx-period"] = ta.ADX(dataframe, timeperiod=period)
-        dataframe["%-sma-period"] = ta.SMA(dataframe, timeperiod=period)
-        dataframe["%-ema-period"] = ta.EMA(dataframe, timeperiod=period)
+        coin = pair.split('/')[0]
 
-        bollinger = qtpylib.bollinger_bands(
-            qtpylib.typical_price(dataframe), window=period, stds=2.2
-        )
-        dataframe["bb_lowerband-period"] = bollinger["lower"]
-        dataframe["bb_middleband-period"] = bollinger["mid"]
-        dataframe["bb_upperband-period"] = bollinger["upper"]
+        if informative is None:
+            informative = self.dp.get_pair_dataframe(pair, tf)
 
-        dataframe["%-bb_width-period"] = (
-            dataframe["bb_upperband-period"]
-            - dataframe["bb_lowerband-period"]
-        ) / dataframe["bb_middleband-period"]
-        dataframe["%-close-bb_lower-period"] = (
-            dataframe["close"] / dataframe["bb_lowerband-period"]
-        )
+        # first loop is automatically duplicating indicators for time periods
+        for t in self.freqai_info["feature_parameters"]["indicator_periods_candles"]:
+            t = int(t)
+            informative[f"%-{coin}rsi-period_{t}"] = ta.RSI(informative, timeperiod=t)
+            informative[f"%-{coin}mfi-period_{t}"] = ta.MFI(informative, timeperiod=t)
+            informative[f"%-{coin}adx-period_{t}"] = ta.ADX(informative, window=t)
 
-        dataframe["%-roc-period"] = ta.ROC(dataframe, timeperiod=period)
-
-        dataframe["%-relative_volume-period"] = (
-            dataframe["volume"] / dataframe["volume"].rolling(period).mean()
-        )
-
-        return dataframe
-
-    def feature_engineering_expand_basic(self, dataframe: DataFrame, metadata, **kwargs) -> DataFrame:
-        """
-        *Only functional with FreqAI enabled strategies*
-        This function will automatically expand the defined features on the config defined
-        `include_timeframes`, `include_shifted_candles`, and `include_corr_pairs`.
-        In other words, a single feature defined in this function
-        will automatically expand to a total of
-        `include_timeframes` * `include_shifted_candles` * `include_corr_pairs`
-        numbers of features added to the model.
-
-        Features defined here will *not* be automatically duplicated on user defined
-        `indicator_periods_candles`
-
-        Access metadata such as the current pair/timeframe with:
-
-        `metadata["pair"]` `metadata["tf"]`
-
-        All features must be prepended with `%` to be recognized by FreqAI internals.
-
-        :param df: strategy dataframe which will receive the features
-        :param metadata: metadata of current pair
-        dataframe["%-pct-change"] = dataframe["close"].pct_change()
-        dataframe["%-ema-200"] = ta.EMA(dataframe, timeperiod=200)
-        """
-        dataframe["%-pct-change"] = dataframe["close"].pct_change()
-        dataframe["%-raw_volume"] = dataframe["volume"]
-        dataframe["%-raw_price"] = dataframe["close"]
-        return dataframe
-
-    def feature_engineering_standard(self, dataframe: DataFrame, metadata, **kwargs) -> DataFrame:
-        """
-        *Only functional with FreqAI enabled strategies*
-        This optional function will be called once with the dataframe of the base timeframe.
-        This is the final function to be called, which means that the dataframe entering this
-        function will contain all the features and columns created by all other
-        freqai_feature_engineering_* functions.
-
-        This function is a good place to do custom exotic feature extractions (e.g. tsfresh).
-        This function is a good place for any feature that should not be auto-expanded upon
-        (e.g. day of the week).
-
-        Access metadata such as the current pair with:
-
-        `metadata["pair"]`
-
-        All features must be prepended with `%` to be recognized by FreqAI internals.
-
-        :param df: strategy dataframe which will receive the features
-        :param metadata: metadata of current pair
-        usage example: dataframe["%-day_of_week"] = (dataframe["date"].dt.dayofweek + 1) / 7
-        """
-        dataframe["%-day_of_week"] = (dataframe["date"].dt.dayofweek + 1) / 7
-        dataframe["%-hour_of_day"] = (dataframe["date"].dt.hour + 1) / 25
-        return dataframe
-
-    def set_freqai_targets(self, dataframe: DataFrame, metadata, **kwargs) -> DataFrame:
-        """
-        *Only functional with FreqAI enabled strategies*
-        Required function to set the targets for the model.
-        All targets must be prepended with `&` to be recognized by the FreqAI internals.
-
-        Access metadata such as the current pair with:
-
-        `metadata["pair"]`
-
-        :param df: strategy dataframe which will receive the targets
-        :param metadata: metadata of current pair
-        usage example: dataframe["&-target"] = dataframe["close"].shift(-1) / dataframe["close"]
-        """
-        dataframe["&-s_close"] = (
-            dataframe["close"]
-            .shift(-self.freqai_info["feature_parameters"]["label_period_candles"])
-            .rolling(self.freqai_info["feature_parameters"]["label_period_candles"])
-            .mean()
-            / dataframe["close"]
-            - 1
+            bollinger = qtpylib.bollinger_bands(
+                qtpylib.typical_price(informative), window=t, stds=2.2
             )
-        
-        return dataframe
+            informative[f"{coin}bb_lowerband-period_{t}"] = bollinger["lower"]
+            informative[f"{coin}bb_middleband-period_{t}"] = bollinger["mid"]
+            informative[f"{coin}bb_upperband-period_{t}"] = bollinger["upper"]
+
+            informative[f"%-{coin}bb_width-period_{t}"] = (
+                informative[f"{coin}bb_upperband-period_{t}"]
+                - informative[f"{coin}bb_lowerband-period_{t}"]
+            ) / informative[f"{coin}bb_middleband-period_{t}"]
+            informative[f"%-{coin}close-bb_lower-period_{t}"] = (
+                informative["close"] / informative[f"{coin}bb_lowerband-period_{t}"]
+            )
+
+            informative[f"%-{coin}relative_volume-period_{t}"] = (
+                informative["volume"] / informative["volume"].rolling(t).mean()
+            )
+
+        indicators = [col for col in informative if col.startswith("%")]
+        # This loop duplicates and shifts all indicators to add a sense of recency to data
+        for n in range(self.freqai_info["feature_parameters"]["include_shifted_candles"] + 1):
+            if n == 0:
+                continue
+            informative_shift = informative[indicators].shift(n)
+            informative_shift = informative_shift.add_suffix("_shift-" + str(n))
+            informative = pd.concat((informative, informative_shift), axis=1)
+
+        df = merge_informative_pair(df, informative, self.config["timeframe"], tf, ffill=True)
+        skip_columns = [
+            (s + "_" + tf) for s in ["date", "open", "high", "low", "close", "volume"]
+        ]
+        df = df.drop(columns=skip_columns)
+
+        # Add generalized indicators here (because in live, it will call this
+        # function to populate indicators during training). Notice how we ensure not to
+        # add them multiple times
+        if set_generalized_indicators:
+            df["%-day_of_week"] = (df["date"].dt.dayofweek + 1) / 7
+            df["%-hour_of_day"] = (df["date"].dt.hour + 1) / 25
+
+            # user adds targets here by prepending them with &- (see convention below)
+            # If user wishes to use multiple targets, a multioutput prediction model
+            # needs to be used such as templates/CatboostPredictionMultiModel.py
+            df["&-s_close"] = (
+                df["close"]
+                .shift(-self.freqai_info["feature_parameters"]["label_period_candles"])
+                .rolling(self.freqai_info["feature_parameters"]["label_period_candles"])
+                .mean()
+                / df["close"]
+                - 1
+            )
+
+        return df
 ```
 
 In the presented example, the user does not wish to pass the `bb_lowerband` as a feature to the model,
@@ -172,29 +118,14 @@ After having defined the `base features`, the next step is to expand upon them u
     }
 ```
 
-The `include_timeframes` in the config above are the timeframes (`tf`) of each call to `feature_engineering_expand_*()` in the strategy. In the presented case, the user is asking for the `5m`, `15m`, and `4h` timeframes of the `rsi`, `mfi`, `roc`, and `bb_width` to be included in the feature set.
+The `include_timeframes` in the config above are the timeframes (`tf`) of each call to `populate_any_indicators()` in the strategy. In the presented case, the user is asking for the `5m`, `15m`, and `4h` timeframes of the `rsi`, `mfi`, `roc`, and `bb_width` to be included in the feature set.
 
-You can ask for each of the defined features to be included also for informative pairs using the `include_corr_pairlist`. This means that the feature set will include all the features from `feature_engineering_expand_*()` on all the `include_timeframes` for each of the correlated pairs defined in the config (`ETH/USD`, `LINK/USD`, and `BNB/USD` in the presented example).
+You can ask for each of the defined features to be included also for informative pairs using the `include_corr_pairlist`. This means that the feature set will include all the features from `populate_any_indicators` on all the `include_timeframes` for each of the correlated pairs defined in the config (`ETH/USD`, `LINK/USD`, and `BNB/USD` in the presented example).
 
 `include_shifted_candles` indicates the number of previous candles to include in the feature set. For example, `include_shifted_candles: 2` tells FreqAI to include the past 2 candles for each of the features in the feature set.
 
-In total, the number of features the user of the presented example strategy has created is: length of `include_timeframes` * no. features in `feature_engineering_expand_*()` * length of `include_corr_pairlist` * no. `include_shifted_candles` * length of `indicator_periods_candles`
+In total, the number of features the user of the presented example strat has created is: length of `include_timeframes` * no. features in `populate_any_indicators()` * length of `include_corr_pairlist` * no. `include_shifted_candles` * length of `indicator_periods_candles`
  $= 3 * 3 * 3 * 2 * 2 = 108$.
- 
- !!! note "Learn more about creative feature engineering"
-    Check out our [medium article](https://emergentmethods.medium.com/freqai-from-price-to-prediction-6fadac18b665) geared toward helping users learn how to creatively engineer features.
-
-### Gain finer control over `feature_engineering_*` functions with `metadata`
-
-All `feature_engineering_*` and `set_freqai_targets()` functions are passed a `metadata` dictionary which contains information about the `pair`, `tf` (timeframe), and `period` that FreqAI is automating for feature building. As such, a user can use `metadata` inside `feature_engineering_*` functions as criteria for blocking/reserving features for certain timeframes, periods, pairs etc.
-
-```python
-def feature_engineering_expand_all(self, dataframe: DataFrame, period, metadata, **kwargs) -> DataFrame:
-    if metadata["tf"] == "1h":
-        dataframe["%-roc-period"] = ta.ROC(dataframe, timeperiod=period)
-```
-
-This will block `ta.ROC()` from being added to any timeframes other than `"1h"`.
 
 ### Returning additional info from training
 
@@ -212,7 +143,41 @@ Another example, where the user wants to use live metrics from the trade databas
 
 You need to set the standard dictionary in the config so that FreqAI can return proper dataframe shapes. These values will likely be overridden by the prediction model, but in the case where the model has yet to set them, or needs a default initial value, the pre-set values are what will be returned.
 
-### Weighting features for temporal importance
+## Feature normalization
+
+FreqAI is strict when it comes to data normalization. The train features, $X^{train}$, are always normalized to [-1, 1] using a shifted min-max normalization:
+
+$$X^{train}_{norm} = 2 * \frac{X^{train} - X^{train}.min()}{X^{train}.max() - X^{train}.min()} - 1$$
+
+All other data (test data and unseen prediction data in dry/live/backtest) is always automatically normalized to the training feature space according to industry standards. FreqAI stores all the metadata required to ensure that test and prediction features will be properly normalized and that predictions are properly denormalized. For this reason, it is not recommended to eschew industry standards and modify FreqAI internals - however - advanced users can do so by inheriting `train()` in their custom `IFreqaiModel` and using their own normalization functions.
+
+## Data dimensionality reduction with Principal Component Analysis
+
+You can reduce the dimensionality of your features by activating the `principal_component_analysis` in the config:
+
+```json
+    "freqai": {
+        "feature_parameters" : {
+            "principal_component_analysis": true
+        }
+    }
+```
+
+This will perform PCA on the features and reduce their dimensionality so that the explained variance of the data set is >= 0.999. Reducing data dimensionality makes training the model faster and hence allows for more up-to-date models. 
+
+## Inlier metric
+
+The `inlier_metric` is a metric aimed at quantifying how similar a the features of a data point are to the most recent historic data points. 
+
+You define the lookback window by setting `inlier_metric_window` and FreqAI computes the distance between the present time point and each of the previous `inlier_metric_window` lookback points. A Weibull function is fit to each of the lookback distributions and its cumulative distribution function (CDF) is used to produce a quantile for each lookback point. The `inlier_metric` is then computed for each time point as the average of the corresponding lookback quantiles. The figure below explains the concept for an `inlier_metric_window` of 5.
+
+![inlier-metric](assets/freqai_inlier-metric.jpg)
+
+FreqAI adds the `inlier_metric` to the training features and hence gives the model access to a novel type of temporal information. 
+
+This function does **not** remove outliers from the data set.
+
+## Weighting features for temporal importance
 
 FreqAI allows you to set a `weight_factor` to weight recent data more strongly than past data via an exponential function:
 
@@ -222,103 +187,13 @@ where $W_i$ is the weight of data point $i$ in a total set of $n$ data points. B
 
 ![weight-factor](assets/freqai_weight-factor.jpg)
 
-## Building the data pipeline
-
-By default, FreqAI builds a dynamic pipeline based on user congfiguration settings. The default settings are robust and designed to work with a variety of methods. These two steps are a `MinMaxScaler(-1,1)` and a `VarianceThreshold` which removes any column that has 0 variance. Users can activate other steps with more configuration parameters. For example if users add `use_SVM_to_remove_outliers: true` to the `freqai` config, then FreqAI will automatically add the [`SVMOutlierExtractor`](#identifying-outliers-using-a-support-vector-machine-svm) to the pipeline. Likewise, users can add `principal_component_analysis: true` to the `freqai` config to activate PCA. The [DissimilarityIndex](#identifying-outliers-with-the-dissimilarity-index-di) is activated with `DI_threshold: 1`. Finally, noise can also be added to the data with `noise_standard_deviation: 0.1`. Finally, users can add [DBSCAN](#identifying-outliers-with-dbscan) outlier removal with `use_DBSCAN_to_remove_outliers: true`.
-
-!!! note "More information available"
-    Please review the [parameter table](freqai-parameter-table.md) for more information on these parameters.
-
-
-### Customizing the pipeline
-
-Users are encouraged to customize the data pipeline to their needs by building their own data pipeline. This can be done by simply setting `dk.feature_pipeline` to their desired `Pipeline` object inside their `IFreqaiModel` `train()` function, or if they prefer not to touch the `train()` function, they can override `define_data_pipeline`/`define_label_pipeline` functions in their `IFreqaiModel`:
-
-!!! note "More information available"
-    FreqAI uses the the [`DataSieve`](https://github.com/emergentmethods/datasieve) pipeline, which follows the SKlearn pipeline API, but adds, among other features, coherence between the X, y, and sample_weight vector point removals, feature removal, feature name following. 
-
-```python
-from datasieve.transforms import SKLearnWrapper, DissimilarityIndex
-from datasieve.pipeline import Pipeline
-from sklearn.preprocessing import QuantileTransformer, StandardScaler
-from freqai.base_models import BaseRegressionModel
-
-
-class MyFreqaiModel(BaseRegressionModel):
-    """
-    Some cool custom model
-    """
-    def fit(self, data_dictionary: Dict, dk: FreqaiDataKitchen, **kwargs) -> Any:
-        """
-        My custom fit function
-        """
-        model = cool_model.fit()
-        return model
-
-    def define_data_pipeline(self) -> Pipeline:
-        """
-        User defines their custom feature pipeline here (if they wish)
-        """
-        feature_pipeline = Pipeline([
-            ('qt', SKLearnWrapper(QuantileTransformer(output_distribution='normal'))),
-            ('di', ds.DissimilarityIndex(di_threshold=1))
-        ])
-
-        return feature_pipeline
-    
-    def define_label_pipeline(self) -> Pipeline:
-        """
-        User defines their custom label pipeline here (if they wish)
-        """
-        label_pipeline = Pipeline([
-            ('qt', SKLearnWrapper(StandardScaler())),
-        ])
-
-        return label_pipeline
-```
-
-Here, you are defining the exact pipeline that will be used for your feature set during training and prediction. You can use *most* SKLearn transformation steps by wrapping them in the `SKLearnWrapper` class as shown above. In addition, you can use any of the transformations available in the [`DataSieve` library](https://github.com/emergentmethods/datasieve). 
-
-You can easily add your own transformation by creating a class that inherits from the datasieve `BaseTransform` and implementing your `fit()`, `transform()` and `inverse_transform()` methods:
-
-```python
-from datasieve.transforms.base_transform import BaseTransform
-# import whatever else you need
-
-class MyCoolTransform(BaseTransform):
-    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
-        self.param1 = kwargs.get('param1', 1)
-
-    def fit(self, X, y=None, sample_weight=None, feature_list=None, **kwargs):
-        # do something with X, y, sample_weight, or/and feature_list
-        return X, y, sample_weight, feature_list
-
-    def transform(self, X, y=None, sample_weight=None,
-                  feature_list=None, outlier_check=False, **kwargs):
-        # do something with X, y, sample_weight, or/and feature_list
-        return X, y, sample_weight, feature_list
-
-    def inverse_transform(self, X, y=None, sample_weight=None, feature_list=None, **kwargs):
-        # do/dont do something with X, y, sample_weight, or/and feature_list
-        return X, y, sample_weight, feature_list
-```
-
-!!! note "Hint"
-    You can define this custom class in the same file as your `IFreqaiModel`.
-
-### Migrating a custom `IFreqaiModel` to the new Pipeline
-
-If you have created your own custom `IFreqaiModel` with a custom `train()`/`predict()` function, *and* you still rely on `data_cleaning_train/predict()`, then you will need to migrate to the new pipeline. If your model does *not* rely on `data_cleaning_train/predict()`, then you do not need to worry about this migration.
-
-More details about the migration can be found [here](strategy_migration.md#freqai---new-data-pipeline).
-
 ## Outlier detection
 
 Equity and crypto markets suffer from a high level of non-patterned noise in the form of outlier data points. FreqAI implements a variety of methods to identify such outliers and hence mitigate risk.
 
 ### Identifying outliers with the Dissimilarity Index (DI)
 
-The Dissimilarity Index (DI) aims to quantify the uncertainty associated with each prediction made by the model. 
+ The Dissimilarity Index (DI) aims to quantify the uncertainty associated with each prediction made by the model. 
 
 You can tell FreqAI to remove outlier data points from the training/test data sets using the DI by including the following statement in the config:
 
@@ -330,7 +205,7 @@ You can tell FreqAI to remove outlier data points from the training/test data se
     }
 ```
 
-Which will add `DissimilarityIndex` step to your `feature_pipeline` and set the threshold to 1. The DI allows predictions which are outliers (not existent in the model feature space) to be thrown out due to low levels of certainty. To do so, FreqAI measures the distance between each training data point (feature vector), $X_{a}$, and all other training data points:
+ The DI allows predictions which are outliers (not existent in the model feature space) to be thrown out due to low levels of certainty. To do so, FreqAI measures the distance between each training data point (feature vector), $X_{a}$, and all other training data points:
 
 $$ d_{ab} = \sqrt{\sum_{j=1}^p(X_{a,j}-X_{b,j})^2} $$
 
@@ -364,9 +239,9 @@ You can tell FreqAI to remove outlier data points from the training/test data se
     }
 ```
 
-Which will add `SVMOutlierExtractor` step to your `feature_pipeline`. The SVM will be trained on the training data and any data point that the SVM deems to be beyond the feature space will be removed.
+The SVM will be trained on the training data and any data point that the SVM deems to be beyond the feature space will be removed.
 
-You can elect to provide additional parameters for the SVM, such as `shuffle`, and `nu` via the `feature_parameters.svm_params` dictionary in the config.
+FreqAI uses `sklearn.linear_model.SGDOneClassSVM` (details are available on scikit-learn's webpage [here](https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.linear_model.SGDOneClassSVM.html) (external website)) and you can elect to provide additional parameters for the SVM, such as `shuffle`, and `nu`.
 
 The parameter `shuffle` is by default set to `False` to ensure consistent results. If it is set to `True`, running the SVM multiple times on the same data set might result in different outcomes due to `max_iter` being to low for the algorithm to reach the demanded `tol`. Increasing `max_iter` solves this issue but causes the procedure to take longer time.
 
@@ -384,7 +259,7 @@ You can configure FreqAI to use DBSCAN to cluster and remove outliers from the t
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-Which will add the `DataSieveDBSCAN` step to your `feature_pipeline`. This is an unsupervised machine learning algorithm that clusters data without needing to know how many clusters there should be.
+DBSCAN is an unsupervised machine learning algorithm that clusters data without needing to know how many clusters there should be.
 
 Given a number of data points $N$, and a distance $\varepsilon$, DBSCAN clusters the data set by setting all data points that have $N-1$ other data points within a distance of $\varepsilon$ as *core points*. A data point that is within a distance of $\varepsilon$ from a *core point* but that does not have $N-1$ other data points within a distance of $\varepsilon$ from itself is considered an *edge point*. A cluster is then the collection of *core points* and *edge points*. Data points that have no other data points at a distance $<\varepsilon$ are considered outliers. The figure below shows a cluster with $N = 3$.
 

docs/freqai-parameter-table.md

@@ -4,114 +4,58 @@ The table below will list all configuration parameters available for FreqAI. Som
 
 Mandatory parameters are marked as **Required** and have to be set in one of the suggested ways.
 
-### General configuration parameters
-
 |  Parameter | Description |
 |------------|-------------|
-|  |  **General configuration parameters within the `config.freqai` tree**
+|  |  **General configuration parameters**
 | `freqai` | **Required.** <br> The parent dictionary containing all the parameters for controlling FreqAI. <br> **Datatype:** Dictionary.
 | `train_period_days` | **Required.** <br> Number of days to use for the training data (width of the sliding window). <br> **Datatype:** Positive integer.
 | `backtest_period_days` | **Required.** <br> Number of days to inference from the trained model before sliding the `train_period_days` window defined above, and retraining the model during backtesting (more info [here](freqai-running.md#backtesting)). This can be fractional days, but beware that the provided `timerange` will be divided by this number to yield the number of trainings necessary to complete the backtest. <br> **Datatype:** Float.
 | `identifier` | **Required.** <br> A unique ID for the current model. If models are saved to disk, the `identifier` allows for reloading specific pre-trained models/data. <br> **Datatype:** String.
 | `live_retrain_hours` | Frequency of retraining during dry/live runs. <br> **Datatype:** Float > 0. <br> Default: `0` (models retrain as often as possible).
 | `expiration_hours` | Avoid making predictions if a model is more than `expiration_hours` old. <br> **Datatype:** Positive integer. <br> Default: `0` (models never expire).
-| `purge_old_models` | Number of models to keep on disk (not relevant to backtesting). Default is 2, which means that dry/live runs will keep the latest 2 models on disk. Setting to 0 keeps all models. This parameter also accepts a boolean to maintain backwards compatibility. <br> **Datatype:** Integer. <br> Default: `2`.
+| `purge_old_models` | Delete obsolete models. <br> **Datatype:** Boolean. <br> Default: `False` (all historic models remain on disk).
 | `save_backtest_models` | Save models to disk when running backtesting. Backtesting operates most efficiently by saving the prediction data and reusing them directly for subsequent runs (when you wish to tune entry/exit parameters). Saving backtesting models to disk also allows to use the same model files for starting a dry/live instance with the same model `identifier`. <br> **Datatype:** Boolean. <br> Default: `False` (no models are saved).
 | `fit_live_predictions_candles` | Number of historical candles to use for computing target (label) statistics from prediction data, instead of from the training dataset (more information can be found [here](freqai-configuration.md#creating-a-dynamic-target-threshold)). <br> **Datatype:** Positive integer.
-| `continual_learning` | Use the final state of the most recently trained model as starting point for the new model, allowing for incremental learning (more information can be found [here](freqai-running.md#continual-learning)). Beware that this is currently a naive approach to incremental learning, and it has a high probability of overfitting/getting stuck in local minima while the market moves away from your model. We have the connections here primarily for experimental purposes and so that it is ready for more mature approaches to continual learning in chaotic systems like the crypto market. <br> **Datatype:** Boolean. <br> Default: `False`.
-| `write_metrics_to_disk` | Collect train timings, inference timings and cpu usage in json file. <br> **Datatype:** Boolean. <br> Default: `False`
-| `data_kitchen_thread_count` | <br> Designate the number of threads you want to use for data processing (outlier methods, normalization, etc.). This has no impact on the number of threads used for training. If user does not set it (default), FreqAI will use max number of threads - 2 (leaving 1 physical core available for Freqtrade bot and FreqUI) <br> **Datatype:** Positive integer.
-| `activate_tensorboard` | <br> Indicate whether or not to activate tensorboard for the tensorboard enabled modules (currently Reinforcment Learning, XGBoost, Catboost, and PyTorch). Tensorboard needs Torch installed, which means you will need the torch/RL docker image or you need to answer "yes" to the install question about whether or not you wish to install Torch. <br> **Datatype:** Boolean. <br> Default: `True`.
-
-### Feature parameters
-
-|  Parameter | Description |
-|------------|-------------|
-|  |  **Feature parameters within the `freqai.feature_parameters` sub dictionary**
+| `follow_mode` | Use a `follower` that will look for models associated with a specific `identifier` and load those for inferencing. A `follower` will **not** train new models. <br> **Datatype:** Boolean. <br> Default: `False`.
+| `continual_learning` | Use the final state of the most recently trained model as starting point for the new model, allowing for incremental learning (more information can be found [here](freqai-running.md#continual-learning)). <br> **Datatype:** Boolean. <br> Default: `False`.
+|  |  **Feature parameters**
 | `feature_parameters` | A dictionary containing the parameters used to engineer the feature set. Details and examples are shown [here](freqai-feature-engineering.md). <br> **Datatype:** Dictionary.
-| `include_timeframes` | A list of timeframes that all indicators in `feature_engineering_expand_*()` will be created for. The list is added as features to the base indicators dataset. <br> **Datatype:** List of timeframes (strings).
-| `include_corr_pairlist` | A list of correlated coins that FreqAI will add as additional features to all `pair_whitelist` coins. All indicators set in `feature_engineering_expand_*()` during feature engineering (see details [here](freqai-feature-engineering.md)) will be created for each correlated coin. The correlated coins features are added to the base indicators dataset. <br> **Datatype:** List of assets (strings).
-| `label_period_candles` | Number of candles into the future that the labels are created for. This is used in `feature_engineering_expand_all()` (see `templates/FreqaiExampleStrategy.py` for detailed usage). You can create custom labels and choose whether to make use of this parameter or not. <br> **Datatype:** Positive integer.
+| `include_timeframes` | A list of timeframes that all indicators in `populate_any_indicators` will be created for. The list is added as features to the base indicators dataset. <br> **Datatype:** List of timeframes (strings).
+| `include_corr_pairlist` | A list of correlated coins that FreqAI will add as additional features to all `pair_whitelist` coins. All indicators set in `populate_any_indicators` during feature engineering (see details [here](freqai-feature-engineering.md)) will be created for each correlated coin. The correlated coins features are added to the base indicators dataset. <br> **Datatype:** List of assets (strings).
+| `label_period_candles` | Number of candles into the future that the labels are created for. This is used in `populate_any_indicators` (see `templates/FreqaiExampleStrategy.py` for detailed usage). You can create custom labels and choose whether to make use of this parameter or not. <br> **Datatype:** Positive integer.
 | `include_shifted_candles` | Add features from previous candles to subsequent candles with the intent of adding historical information. If used, FreqAI will duplicate and shift all features from the `include_shifted_candles` previous candles so that the information is available for the subsequent candle. <br> **Datatype:** Positive integer.
 | `weight_factor` | Weight training data points according to their recency (see details [here](freqai-feature-engineering.md#weighting-features-for-temporal-importance)). <br> **Datatype:** Positive float (typically < 1).
-| `indicator_max_period_candles` | **No longer used (#7325)**. Replaced by `startup_candle_count` which is set in the [strategy](freqai-configuration.md#building-a-freqai-strategy). `startup_candle_count` is timeframe independent and defines the maximum *period* used in `feature_engineering_*()` for indicator creation. FreqAI uses this parameter together with the maximum timeframe in `include_time_frames` to calculate how many data points to download such that the first data point does not include a NaN. <br> **Datatype:** Positive integer.
+| `indicator_max_period_candles` | **No longer used (#7325)**. Replaced by `startup_candle_count` which is set in the [strategy](freqai-configuration.md#building-a-freqai-strategy). `startup_candle_count` is timeframe independent and defines the maximum *period* used in `populate_any_indicators()` for indicator creation. FreqAI uses this parameter together with the maximum timeframe in `include_time_frames` to calculate how many data points to download such that the first data point does not include a NaN. <br> **Datatype:** Positive integer.
 | `indicator_periods_candles` | Time periods to calculate indicators for. The indicators are added to the base indicator dataset. <br> **Datatype:** List of positive integers.
 | `principal_component_analysis` | Automatically reduce the dimensionality of the data set using Principal Component Analysis. See details about how it works [here](#reducing-data-dimensionality-with-principal-component-analysis) <br> **Datatype:** Boolean. <br> Default: `False`.
-| `plot_feature_importances` | Create a feature importance plot for each model for the top/bottom `plot_feature_importances` number of features. Plot is stored in `user_data/models/<identifier>/sub-train-<COIN>_<timestamp>.html`. <br> **Datatype:** Integer. <br> Default: `0`.
+| `plot_feature_importances` | Create a feature importance plot for each model for the top/bottom `plot_feature_importances` number of features. <br> **Datatype:** Integer. <br> Default: `0`.
 | `DI_threshold` | Activates the use of the Dissimilarity Index for outlier detection when set to > 0. See details about how it works [here](freqai-feature-engineering.md#identifying-outliers-with-the-dissimilarity-index-di). <br> **Datatype:** Positive float (typically < 1).
 | `use_SVM_to_remove_outliers` | Train a support vector machine to detect and remove outliers from the training dataset, as well as from incoming data points. See details about how it works [here](freqai-feature-engineering.md#identifying-outliers-using-a-support-vector-machine-svm). <br> **Datatype:** Boolean.
 | `svm_params` | All parameters available in Sklearn's `SGDOneClassSVM()`. See details about some select parameters [here](freqai-feature-engineering.md#identifying-outliers-using-a-support-vector-machine-svm). <br> **Datatype:** Dictionary.
 | `use_DBSCAN_to_remove_outliers` | Cluster data using the DBSCAN algorithm to identify and remove outliers from training and prediction data. See details about how it works [here](freqai-feature-engineering.md#identifying-outliers-with-dbscan). <br> **Datatype:** Boolean. 
+| `inlier_metric_window` | If set, FreqAI adds an `inlier_metric` to the training feature set and set the lookback to be the `inlier_metric_window`, i.e., the number of previous time points to compare the current candle to. Details of how the `inlier_metric` is computed can be found [here](freqai-feature-engineering.md#inlier-metric). <br> **Datatype:** Integer. <br> Default: `0`.
 | `noise_standard_deviation` | If set, FreqAI adds noise to the training features with the aim of preventing overfitting. FreqAI generates random deviates from a gaussian distribution with a standard deviation of `noise_standard_deviation` and adds them to all data points. `noise_standard_deviation` should be kept relative to the normalized space, i.e., between -1 and 1. In other words, since data in FreqAI is always normalized to be between -1 and 1, `noise_standard_deviation: 0.05` would result in 32% of the data being randomly increased/decreased by more than 2.5% (i.e., the percent of data falling within the first standard deviation). <br> **Datatype:** Integer. <br> Default: `0`.
 | `outlier_protection_percentage` | Enable to prevent outlier detection methods from discarding too much data. If more than `outlier_protection_percentage` % of points are detected as outliers by the SVM or DBSCAN, FreqAI will log a warning message and ignore outlier detection, i.e., the original dataset will be kept intact. If the outlier protection is triggered, no predictions will be made based on the training dataset. <br> **Datatype:** Float. <br> Default: `30`.
 | `reverse_train_test_order` | Split the feature dataset (see below) and use the latest data split for training and test on historical split of the data. This allows the model to be trained up to the most recent data point, while avoiding overfitting. However, you should be careful to understand the unorthodox nature of this parameter before employing it. <br> **Datatype:** Boolean. <br> Default: `False` (no reversal).
-| `shuffle_after_split` | Split the data into train and test sets, and then shuffle both sets individually. <br> **Datatype:** Boolean. <br> Default: `False`.
-| `buffer_train_data_candles` | Cut `buffer_train_data_candles` off the beginning and end of the training data *after* the indicators were populated. The main example use is when predicting maxima and minima, the argrelextrema function  cannot know the maxima/minima at the edges of the timerange. To improve model accuracy, it is best to compute argrelextrema on the full timerange and then use this function to cut off the edges (buffer) by the kernel. In another case, if the targets are set to a shifted price movement, this buffer is unnecessary because the shifted candles at the end of the timerange will be NaN and FreqAI will automatically cut those off of the training dataset.<br> **Datatype:** Integer. <br> Default: `0`.
-
-### Data split parameters
-
-|  Parameter | Description |
-|------------|-------------|
-|  |  **Data split parameters within the `freqai.data_split_parameters` sub dictionary**
-| `data_split_parameters` | Include any additional parameters available from scikit-learn `test_train_split()`, which are shown [here](https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.model_selection.train_test_split.html) (external website). <br> **Datatype:** Dictionary.
+|  |  **Data split parameters**
+| `data_split_parameters` | Include any additional parameters available from Scikit-learn `test_train_split()`, which are shown [here](https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.model_selection.train_test_split.html) (external website). <br> **Datatype:** Dictionary.
 | `test_size` | The fraction of data that should be used for testing instead of training. <br> **Datatype:** Positive float < 1.
 | `shuffle` | Shuffle the training data points during training. Typically, to not remove the chronological order of data in time-series forecasting, this is set to `False`. <br> **Datatype:** Boolean. <br> Defaut: `False`.
-
-### Model training parameters
-
-|  Parameter | Description |
-|------------|-------------|
-|  |  **Model training parameters within the `freqai.model_training_parameters` sub dictionary**
-| `model_training_parameters` | A flexible dictionary that includes all parameters available by the selected model library. For example, if you use `LightGBMRegressor`, this dictionary can contain any parameter available by the `LightGBMRegressor` [here](https://lightgbm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pythonapi/lightgbm.LGBMRegressor.html) (external website). If you select a different model, this dictionary can contain any parameter from that model. A list of the currently available models can be found [here](freqai-configuration.md#using-different-prediction-models).  <br> **Datatype:** Dictionary.
+|  |  **Model training parameters**
+| `model_training_parameters` | A flexible dictionary that includes all parameters available by the selected model library. For example, if you use `LightGBMRegressor`, this dictionary can contain any parameter available by the `LightGBMRegressor` [here](https://lightgbm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pythonapi/lightgbm.LGBMRegressor.html) (external website). If you select a different model, this dictionary can contain any parameter from that model.  <br> **Datatype:** Dictionary.
 | `n_estimators` | The number of boosted trees to fit in the training of the model. <br> **Datatype:** Integer.
 | `learning_rate` | Boosting learning rate during training of the model. <br> **Datatype:** Float.
 | `n_jobs`, `thread_count`, `task_type` | Set the number of threads for parallel processing and the `task_type` (`gpu` or `cpu`). Different model libraries use different parameter names. <br> **Datatype:** Float.
-
-### Reinforcement Learning parameters
-
-|  Parameter | Description |
-|------------|-------------|
-|  |  **Reinforcement Learning Parameters within the `freqai.rl_config` sub dictionary**
+|  |  *Reinforcement Learning Parameters**
 | `rl_config` | A dictionary containing the control parameters for a Reinforcement Learning model. <br> **Datatype:** Dictionary.
 | `train_cycles` | Training time steps will be set based on the `train_cycles * number of training data points. <br> **Datatype:** Integer.
-| `max_trade_duration_candles`| Guides the agent training to keep trades below desired length. Example usage shown in `prediction_models/ReinforcementLearner.py` within the customizable `calculate_reward()` function. <br> **Datatype:** int.
-| `model_type` | Model string from stable_baselines3 or SBcontrib. Available strings include: `'TRPO', 'ARS', 'RecurrentPPO', 'MaskablePPO', 'PPO', 'A2C', 'DQN'`. User should ensure that `model_training_parameters` match those available to the corresponding stable_baselines3 model by visiting their documentation. [PPO doc](https://stable-baselines3.readthedocs.io/en/master/modules/ppo.html) (external website) <br> **Datatype:** string.
+| `cpu_count` | Number of processors to dedicate to the Reinforcement Learning training process. <br> **Datatype:** int.
+| `max_trade_duration_candles`| Guides the agent training to keep trades below desired length. Example usage shown in `prediction_models/ReinforcementLearner.py` within the user customizable `calculate_reward()` <br> **Datatype:** int.
+| `model_type` | Model string from stable_baselines3 or SBcontrib. Available strings include: `'TRPO', 'ARS', 'RecurrentPPO', 'MaskablePPO', 'PPO', 'A2C', 'DQN'`. User should ensure that `model_training_parameters` match those available to the corresponding stable_baselines3 model by visiting their documentaiton. [PPO doc](https://stable-baselines3.readthedocs.io/en/master/modules/ppo.html) (external website) <br> **Datatype:** string.
 | `policy_type` | One of the available policy types from stable_baselines3 <br> **Datatype:** string.
 | `max_training_drawdown_pct` | The maximum drawdown that the agent is allowed to experience during training. <br> **Datatype:** float. <br> Default: 0.8
-| `cpu_count` | Number of threads/cpus to dedicate to the Reinforcement Learning training process (depending on if `ReinforcementLearning_multiproc` is selected or not). Recommended to leave this untouched, by default, this value is set to the total number of physical cores minus 1. <br> **Datatype:** int. 
-| `model_reward_parameters` | Parameters used inside the customizable `calculate_reward()` function in `ReinforcementLearner.py` <br> **Datatype:** int.
-| `add_state_info` | Tell FreqAI to include state information in the feature set for training and inferencing. The current state variables include trade duration, current profit, trade position. This is only available in dry/live runs, and is automatically switched to false for backtesting. <br> **Datatype:** bool. <br> Default: `False`.
-| `net_arch` | Network architecture which is well described in [`stable_baselines3` doc](https://stable-baselines3.readthedocs.io/en/master/guide/custom_policy.html#examples). In summary: `[<shared layers>, dict(vf=[<non-shared value network layers>], pi=[<non-shared policy network layers>])]`. By default this is set to `[128, 128]`, which defines 2 shared hidden layers with 128 units each.
-| `randomize_starting_position` | Randomize the starting point of each episode to avoid overfitting. <br> **Datatype:** bool. <br> Default: `False`.
-| `drop_ohlc_from_features` | Do not include the normalized ohlc data in the feature set passed to the agent during training (ohlc will still be used for driving the environment in all cases) <br> **Datatype:** Boolean. <br> **Default:** `False`
-| `progress_bar` | Display a progress bar with the current progress, elapsed time and estimated remaining time. <br> **Datatype:** Boolean. <br> Default: `False`.
-
-### PyTorch parameters
-
-#### general
-
-|  Parameter | Description |
-|------------|-------------|
-|  |  **Model training parameters within the `freqai.model_training_parameters` sub dictionary**
-| `learning_rate` | Learning rate to be passed to the optimizer. <br> **Datatype:** float. <br> Default: `3e-4`.
-| `model_kwargs` | Parameters to be passed to the model class. <br> **Datatype:** dict. <br> Default: `{}`.
-| `trainer_kwargs` | Parameters to be passed to the trainer class. <br> **Datatype:** dict. <br> Default: `{}`.
-
-#### trainer_kwargs
-
-| Parameter    | Description |
-|--------------|-------------|
-|              |  **Model training parameters within the `freqai.model_training_parameters.model_kwargs` sub dictionary**
-| `n_epochs`   | The `n_epochs` parameter is a crucial setting in the PyTorch training loop that determines the number of times the entire training dataset will be used to update the model's parameters. An epoch represents one full pass through the entire training dataset. Overrides `n_steps`. Either `n_epochs` or `n_steps` must be set. <br><br> **Datatype:** int. optional. <br> Default: `10`.
-| `n_steps`    | An alternative way of setting `n_epochs` -  the number of training iterations to run. Iteration here refer to the number of times we call `optimizer.step()`. Ignored if `n_epochs` is set. A simplified version of the function: <br><br> n_epochs = n_steps / (n_obs / batch_size) <br><br> The motivation here is that `n_steps` is easier to optimize and keep stable across different n_obs - the number of data points.  <br> <br> **Datatype:** int. optional. <br> Default: `None`.
-| `batch_size` | The size of the batches to use during training. <br><br> **Datatype:** int. <br> Default: `64`.
-
-
-### Additional parameters
-
-|  Parameter | Description |
-|------------|-------------|
+| `cpu_count` | Number of threads/cpus to dedicate to the Reinforcement Learning training process (depending on if `ReinforcementLearning_multiproc` is selected or not). <br> **Datatype:** int. 
+| `model_reward_parameters` | Parameters used inside the user customizable `calculate_reward()` function in `ReinforcementLearner.py` <br> **Datatype:** int.
 |  |  **Extraneous parameters**
-| `freqai.keras` | If the selected model makes use of Keras (typical for TensorFlow-based prediction models), this flag needs to be activated so that the model save/loading follows Keras standards. <br> **Datatype:** Boolean. <br> Default: `False`.
-| `freqai.conv_width` | The width of a neural network input tensor. This replaces the need for shifting candles (`include_shifted_candles`) by feeding in historical data points as the second dimension of the tensor. Technically, this parameter can also be used for regressors, but it only adds computational overhead and does not change the model training/prediction. <br> **Datatype:** Integer. <br> Default: `2`.
-| `freqai.reduce_df_footprint` | Recast all numeric columns to float32/int32, with the objective of reducing ram/disk usage and decreasing train/inference timing. This parameter is set in the main level of the Freqtrade configuration file (not inside FreqAI). <br> **Datatype:** Boolean. <br> Default: `False`.
+| `keras` | If the selected model makes use of Keras (typical for Tensorflow-based prediction models), this flag needs to be activated so that the model save/loading follows Keras standards. <br> **Datatype:** Boolean. <br> Default: `False`.
+| `conv_width` | The width of a convolutional neural network input tensor. This replaces the need for shifting candles (`include_shifted_candles`) by feeding in historical data points as the second dimension of the tensor. Technically, this parameter can also be used for regressors, but it only adds computational overhead and does not change the model training/prediction. <br> **Datatype:** Integer. <br> Default: `2`.

docs/freqai-reinforcement-learning.md

@@ -1,32 +1,7 @@
 # Reinforcement Learning
 
-!!! Note "Installation size"
-    Reinforcement learning dependencies include large packages such as `torch`, which should be explicitly requested during `./setup.sh -i` by answering "y" to the question "Do you also want dependencies for freqai-rl (~700mb additional space required) [y/N]?".
-    Users who prefer docker should ensure they use the docker image appended with `_freqairl`.
-
-## Background and terminology
-
-### What is RL and why does FreqAI need it?
-
-Reinforcement learning involves two important components, the *agent* and the training *environment*. During agent training, the agent moves through historical data candle by candle, always making 1 of a set of actions: Long entry, long exit, short entry, short exit, neutral). During this training process, the environment tracks the performance of these actions and rewards the agent according to a custom user made `calculate_reward()` (here we offer a default reward for users to build on if they wish [details here](#creating-a-custom-reward-function)). The reward is used to train weights in a neural network.
-
-A second important component of the FreqAI RL implementation is the use of *state* information. State information is fed into the network at each step, including current profit, current position, and current trade duration. These are used to train the agent in the training environment, and to reinforce the agent in dry/live (this functionality is not available in backtesting). *FreqAI + Freqtrade is a perfect match for this reinforcing mechanism since this information is readily available in live deployments.*
-
-Reinforcement learning is a natural progression for FreqAI, since it adds a new layer of adaptivity and market reactivity that Classifiers and Regressors cannot match. However, Classifiers and Regressors have strengths that RL does not have such as robust predictions. Improperly trained RL agents may find "cheats" and "tricks" to maximize reward without actually winning any trades. For this reason, RL is more complex and demands a higher level of understanding than typical Classifiers and Regressors.
-
-### The RL interface
-
-With the current framework, we aim to expose the training environment via the common "prediction model" file, which is a user inherited `BaseReinforcementLearner` object (e.g. `freqai/prediction_models/ReinforcementLearner`). Inside this user class, the RL environment is available and customized via `MyRLEnv` as [shown below](#creating-a-custom-reward-function).
-
-We envision the majority of users focusing their effort on creative design of the `calculate_reward()` function [details here](#creating-a-custom-reward-function), while leaving the rest of the environment untouched. Other users may not touch the environment at all, and they will only play with the configuration settings and the powerful feature engineering that already exists in FreqAI. Meanwhile, we enable advanced users to create their own model classes entirely.
-
-The framework is built on stable_baselines3 (torch) and OpenAI gym for the base environment class. But generally speaking, the model class is well isolated. Thus, the addition of competing libraries can be easily integrated into the existing framework. For the environment, it is inheriting from `gym.Env` which means that it is necessary to write an entirely new environment in order to switch to a different library.
-
-### Important considerations
-
-As explained above, the agent is "trained" in an artificial trading "environment". In our case, that environment may seem quite similar to a real Freqtrade backtesting environment, but it is *NOT*. In fact, the RL training environment is much more simplified. It does not incorporate any of the complicated strategy logic, such as callbacks like `custom_exit`, `custom_stoploss`, leverage controls, etc. The RL environment is instead a very "raw" representation of the true market, where the agent has free will to learn the policy (read: stoploss, take profit, etc.) which is enforced by the `calculate_reward()`. Thus, it is important to consider that the agent training environment is not identical to the real world.
-
-## Running Reinforcement Learning
+!!! Note
+    Reinforcement learning dependencies include large packages such as `torch`, which should be explicitly requested during `./setup.sh -i` by answering "y" to the question "Do you also want dependencies for freqai-rl (~700mb additional space required) [y/N]?" Users who prefer docker should ensure they use the docker image appended with `_freqaiRL`. 
 
 Setting up and running a Reinforcement Learning model is the same as running a Regressor or Classifier. The same two flags, `--freqaimodel` and `--strategy`, must be defined on the command line:
 
@@ -34,41 +9,70 @@ Setting up and running a Reinforcement Learning model is the same as running a R
 freqtrade trade --freqaimodel ReinforcementLearner --strategy MyRLStrategy --config config.json
 ```
 
-where `ReinforcementLearner` will use the templated `ReinforcementLearner` from `freqai/prediction_models/ReinforcementLearner` (or a custom user defined one located in `user_data/freqaimodels`). The strategy, on the other hand, follows the same base [feature engineering](freqai-feature-engineering.md) with `feature_engineering_*` as a typical Regressor. The difference lies in the creation of the targets, Reinforcement Learning doesn't require them. However, FreqAI requires a default (neutral) value to be set in the action column:
+where `ReinforcementLearner` will use the templated `ReinforcementLearner` from `freqai/prediction_models/ReinforcementLearner`. The strategy, on the other hand, follows the same base [feature engineering](freqai-feature-engineering.md) with `populate_any_indicators` as a typical Regressor:
 
 ```python
-    def set_freqai_targets(self, dataframe, **kwargs) -> DataFrame:
-        """
-        *Only functional with FreqAI enabled strategies*
-        Required function to set the targets for the model.
-        All targets must be prepended with `&` to be recognized by the FreqAI internals.
+    def populate_any_indicators(
+        self, pair, df, tf, informative=None, set_generalized_indicators=False
+    ):
 
-        More details about feature engineering available:
+        coin = pair.split('/')[0]
 
-        https://www.freqtrade.io/en/latest/freqai-feature-engineering
+        if informative is None:
+            informative = self.dp.get_pair_dataframe(pair, tf)
 
-        :param df: strategy dataframe which will receive the targets
-        usage example: dataframe["&-target"] = dataframe["close"].shift(-1) / dataframe["close"]
-        """
-        # For RL, there are no direct targets to set. This is filler (neutral)
-        # until the agent sends an action.
-        dataframe["&-action"] = 0
-        return dataframe
-```
+        # first loop is automatically duplicating indicators for time periods
+        for t in self.freqai_info["feature_parameters"]["indicator_periods_candles"]:
 
-Most of the function remains the same as for typical Regressors, however, the function below shows how the strategy must pass the raw price data to the agent so that it has access to raw OHLCV in the training environment:
+            t = int(t)
+            informative[f"%-{coin}rsi-period_{t}"] = ta.RSI(informative, timeperiod=t)
+            informative[f"%-{coin}mfi-period_{t}"] = ta.MFI(informative, timeperiod=t)
+            informative[f"%-{coin}adx-period_{t}"] = ta.ADX(informative, window=t)
 
-```python
-    def feature_engineering_standard(self, dataframe: DataFrame, **kwargs) -> DataFrame:
         # The following features are necessary for RL models
-        dataframe[f"%-raw_close"] = dataframe["close"]
-        dataframe[f"%-raw_open"] = dataframe["open"]
-        dataframe[f"%-raw_high"] = dataframe["high"]
-        dataframe[f"%-raw_low"] = dataframe["low"]
-    return dataframe
+        informative[f"%-{coin}raw_close"] = informative["close"]
+        informative[f"%-{coin}raw_open"] = informative["open"]
+        informative[f"%-{coin}raw_high"] = informative["high"]
+        informative[f"%-{coin}raw_low"] = informative["low"]
+
+        indicators = [col for col in informative if col.startswith("%")]
+        # This loop duplicates and shifts all indicators to add a sense of recency to data
+        for n in range(self.freqai_info["feature_parameters"]["include_shifted_candles"] + 1):
+            if n == 0:
+                continue
+            informative_shift = informative[indicators].shift(n)
+            informative_shift = informative_shift.add_suffix("_shift-" + str(n))
+            informative = pd.concat((informative, informative_shift), axis=1)
+
+        df = merge_informative_pair(df, informative, self.config["timeframe"], tf, ffill=True)
+        skip_columns = [
+            (s + "_" + tf) for s in ["date", "open", "high", "low", "close", "volume"]
+        ]
+        df = df.drop(columns=skip_columns)
+
+        # Add generalized indicators here (because in live, it will call this
+        # function to populate indicators during training). Notice how we ensure not to
+        # add them multiple times
+        if set_generalized_indicators:
+
+            # For RL, there are no direct targets to set. This is filler (neutral)
+            # until the agent sends an action.
+            df["&-action"] = 0
+
+        return df
 ```
 
-Finally, there is no explicit "label" to make - instead it is necessary to assign the `&-action` column which will contain the agent's actions when accessed in `populate_entry/exit_trends()`. In the present example, the neutral action to 0. This value should align with the environment used. FreqAI provides two environments, both use 0 as the neutral action.
+Most of the function remains the same as for typical Regressors, however, the function above shows how the strategy must pass the raw price data to the agent so that it has access to raw OHLCV in the training environent:
+
+```python
+        # The following features are necessary for RL models
+        informative[f"%-{coin}raw_close"] = informative["close"]
+        informative[f"%-{coin}raw_open"] = informative["open"]
+        informative[f"%-{coin}raw_high"] = informative["high"]
+        informative[f"%-{coin}raw_low"] = informative["low"]
+```
+
+Finally, there is no explicit "label" to make - instead the you need to assign the `&-action` column which will contain the agent's actions when accessed in `populate_entry/exit_trends()`. In the present example, the user set the neutral action to 0. This value should align with the environment used. FreqAI provides two environments, both use 0 as the neutral action.
 
 After users realize there are no labels to set, they will soon understand that the agent is making its "own" entry and exit decisions. This makes strategy construction rather simple. The entry and exit signals come from the agent in the form of an integer - which are used directly to decide entries and exits in the strategy:
 
@@ -103,16 +107,15 @@ After users realize there are no labels to set, they will soon understand that t
         return df
 ```
 
-It is important to consider that `&-action` depends on which environment they choose to use. The example above shows 5 actions, where 0 is neutral, 1 is enter long, 2 is exit long, 3 is enter short and 4 is exit short.
+It is important to consider that `&-action` depends on which environment they choose to use. The example above shows 5 actions, where 0 is neutral, 1 is enter long, 2 is exit long, 3 is enter short and 4 is exit short. 
 
 ## Configuring the Reinforcement Learner
 
-In order to configure the `Reinforcement Learner` the following dictionary must exist in the `freqai` config:
+In order to configure the `Reinforcement Learner` the following dictionary to their `freqai` config:
 
 ```json
         "rl_config": {
             "train_cycles": 25,
-            "add_state_info": true,
             "max_trade_duration_candles": 300,
             "max_training_drawdown_pct": 0.02,
             "cpu_count": 8,
@@ -125,87 +128,30 @@ In order to configure the `Reinforcement Learner` the following dictionary must
         }
 ```
 
-Parameter details can be found [here](freqai-parameter-table.md), but in general the `train_cycles` decides how many times the agent should cycle through the candle data in its artificial environment to train weights in the model. `model_type` is a string which selects one of the available models in [stable_baselines](https://stable-baselines3.readthedocs.io/en/master/)(external link).
+Parameter details can be found [here](freqai-parameter-table.md), but in general the `train_cycles` decides how many times the agent should cycle through the candle data in its artificial environemtn to train weights in the model. `model_type` is a string which selects one of the available models in [stable_baselines](https://stable-baselines3.readthedocs.io/en/master/)(external link). 
 
-!!! Note
-    If you would like to experiment with `continual_learning`, then you should set that value to `true` in the main `freqai` configuration dictionary. This will tell the Reinforcement Learning library to continue training new models from the final state of previous models, instead of retraining new models from scratch each time a retrain is initiated.
+## Creating the reward
 
-!!! Note
-    Remember that the general `model_training_parameters` dictionary should contain all the model hyperparameter customizations for the particular `model_type`. For example, `PPO` parameters can be found [here](https://stable-baselines3.readthedocs.io/en/master/modules/ppo.html).
-
-## Creating a custom reward function
-
-!!! danger "Not for production"
-    Warning!
-    The reward function provided with the Freqtrade source code is a showcase of functionality designed to show/test as many possible environment control features as possible. It is also designed to run quickly on small computers. This is a benchmark, it is *not* for live production. Please beware that you will need to create your own custom_reward() function or use a template built by other users outside of the Freqtrade source code.
-
-As you begin to modify the strategy and the prediction model, you will quickly realize some important differences between the Reinforcement Learner and the Regressors/Classifiers. Firstly, the strategy does not set a target value (no labels!). Instead, you set the `calculate_reward()` function inside the `MyRLEnv` class (see below). A default `calculate_reward()` is provided inside `prediction_models/ReinforcementLearner.py` to demonstrate the necessary building blocks for creating rewards, but this is *not* designed for production. Users *must* create their own custom reinforcement learning model class or use a pre-built one from outside the Freqtrade source code and save it to `user_data/freqaimodels`. It is inside the `calculate_reward()` where creative theories about the market can be expressed. For example, you can reward your agent when it makes a winning trade, and penalize the agent when it makes a losing trade. Or perhaps, you wish to reward the agent for entering trades, and penalize the agent for sitting in trades too long. Below we show examples of how these rewards are all calculated:
-
-!!! note "Hint"
-    The best reward functions are ones that are continuously differentiable, and well scaled. In other words, adding a single large negative penalty to a rare event is not a good idea, and the neural net will not be able to learn that function. Instead, it is better to add a small negative penalty to a common event. This will help the agent learn faster. Not only this, but you can help improve the continuity of your rewards/penalties by having them scale with severity according to some linear/exponential functions. In other words, you'd slowly scale the penalty as the duration of the trade increases. This is better than a single large penalty occurring at a single point in time.
+As users begin to modify the strategy and the prediction model, they will quickly realize some important differences between the Reinforcement Learner and the Regressors/Classifiers. Firstly, the strategy does not set a target value (no labels!). Instead, the user sets a `calculate_reward()` function inside their custom `ReinforcementLearner.py` file. A default `calculate_reward()` is provided inside `prediction_models/ReinforcementLearner.py` to give users the necessary building blocks to start their own models. It is inside the `calculate_reward()` where users express their creative theories about the market. For example, the user wants to reward their agent when it makes a winning trade, and penalize the agent when it makes a losing trade. Or perhaps, the user wishes to reward the agnet for entering trades, and penalize the agent for sitting in trades too long. Below we show examples of how these rewards are all calculated:
 
 ```python
-from freqtrade.freqai.prediction_models.ReinforcementLearner import ReinforcementLearner
-from freqtrade.freqai.RL.Base5ActionRLEnv import Actions, Base5ActionRLEnv, Positions
-
-
-class MyCoolRLModel(ReinforcementLearner):
-    """
-    User created RL prediction model.
-
-    Save this file to `freqtrade/user_data/freqaimodels`
-
-    then use it with:
-
-    freqtrade trade --freqaimodel MyCoolRLModel --config config.json --strategy SomeCoolStrat
-
-    Here the users can override any of the functions
-    available in the `IFreqaiModel` inheritance tree. Most importantly for RL, this
-    is where the user overrides `MyRLEnv` (see below), to define custom
-    `calculate_reward()` function, or to override any other parts of the environment.
-
-    This class also allows users to override any other part of the IFreqaiModel tree.
-    For example, the user can override `def fit()` or `def train()` or `def predict()`
-    to take fine-tuned control over these processes.
-
-    Another common override may be `def data_cleaning_predict()` where the user can
-    take fine-tuned control over the data handling pipeline.
-    """
     class MyRLEnv(Base5ActionRLEnv):
         """
-        User made custom environment. This class inherits from BaseEnvironment and gym.Env.
+        User made custom environment. This class inherits from BaseEnvironment and gym.env.
         Users can override any functions from those parent classes. Here is an example
         of a user customized `calculate_reward()` function.
-
-        Warning!
-        This is function is a showcase of functionality designed to show as many possible
-        environment control features as possible. It is also designed to run quickly
-        on small computers. This is a benchmark, it is *not* for live production.
         """
-        def calculate_reward(self, action: int) -> float:
+        def calculate_reward(self, action):
             # first, penalize if the action is not valid
             if not self._is_valid(action):
                 return -2
             pnl = self.get_unrealized_profit()
 
             factor = 100
-
-            pair = self.pair.replace(':', '')
-
-            # you can use feature values from dataframe
-            # Assumes the shifted RSI indicator has been generated in the strategy.
-            rsi_now = self.raw_features[f"%-rsi-period_10_shift-1_{pair}_"
-                            f"{self.config['timeframe']}"].iloc[self._current_tick]
-
             # reward agent for entering trades
-            if (action in (Actions.Long_enter.value, Actions.Short_enter.value)
-                    and self._position == Positions.Neutral):
-                if rsi_now < 40:
-                    factor = 40 / rsi_now
-                else:
-                    factor = 1
-                return 25 * factor
-
+            if action in (Actions.Long_enter.value, Actions.Short_enter.value) \
+                    and self._position == Positions.Neutral:
+                return 25
             # discourage agent from not entering trades
             if action == Actions.Neutral.value and self._position == Positions.Neutral:
                 return -1
@@ -217,7 +163,7 @@ class MyCoolRLModel(ReinforcementLearner):
                 factor *= 0.5
             # discourage sitting in position
             if self._position in (Positions.Short, Positions.Long) and \
-            action == Actions.Neutral.value:
+               action == Actions.Neutral.value:
                 return -1 * trade_duration / max_trade_duration
             # close long
             if action == Actions.Long_exit.value and self._position == Positions.Long:
@@ -232,49 +178,25 @@ class MyCoolRLModel(ReinforcementLearner):
             return 0.
 ```
 
-## Using Tensorboard
+### Creating a custom agent
 
-Reinforcement Learning models benefit from tracking training metrics. FreqAI has integrated Tensorboard to allow users to track training and evaluation performance across all coins and across all retrainings. Tensorboard is activated via the following command:
+Users can inherit from `stable_baselines3` and customize anything they wish about their agent. Doing this is for advanced users only, an example is presented in `freqai/RL/ReinforcementLearnerCustomAgent.py`
+
+### Using Tensorboard
+
+Reinforcement Learning models benefit from tracking training metrics. FreqAI has integrated Tensorboard to allow users to track training and evaluation performance across all coins and across all retrainings. To start, the user should ensure Tensorboard is installed on their computer:
 
 ```bash
+pip3 install tensorboard
+```
+
+Next, the user can activate Tensorboard with the following command:
+
+```bash
+cd freqtrade
 tensorboard --logdir user_data/models/unique-id
 ```
 
-where `unique-id` is the `identifier` set in the `freqai` configuration file. This command must be run in a separate shell to view the output in the browser at 127.0.0.1:6006 (6006 is the default port used by Tensorboard).
+where `unique-id` is the `identifier` set in the `freqai` configuration file. This command must be run in a separate shell if the user wishes to view the output in their browser at 127.0.0.1:6060 (6060 is the default port used by Tensorboard).
 
-![tensorboard](assets/tensorboard.jpg)
-
-## Custom logging
-
-FreqAI also provides a built in episodic summary logger called `self.tensorboard_log` for adding custom information to the Tensorboard log. By default, this function is already called once per step inside the environment to record the agent actions. All values accumulated for all steps in a single episode are reported at the conclusion of each episode, followed by a full reset of all metrics to 0 in preparation for the subsequent episode.
-
-`self.tensorboard_log` can also be used anywhere inside the environment, for example, it can be added to the `calculate_reward` function to collect more detailed information about how often various parts of the reward were called:
-
-```python
-    class MyRLEnv(Base5ActionRLEnv):
-        """
-        User made custom environment. This class inherits from BaseEnvironment and gym.Env.
-        Users can override any functions from those parent classes. Here is an example
-        of a user customized `calculate_reward()` function.
-        """
-        def calculate_reward(self, action: int) -> float:
-            if not self._is_valid(action):
-                self.tensorboard_log("invalid")
-                return -2
-
-```
-
-!!! Note
-    The `self.tensorboard_log()` function is designed for tracking incremented objects only i.e. events, actions inside the training environment. If the event of interest is a float, the float can be passed as the second argument e.g. `self.tensorboard_log("float_metric1", 0.23)`. In this case the metric values are not incremented.
-
-## Choosing a base environment
-
-FreqAI provides three base environments, `Base3ActionRLEnvironment`, `Base4ActionEnvironment` and `Base5ActionEnvironment`. As the names imply, the environments are customized for agents that can select from 3, 4 or 5 actions. The `Base3ActionEnvironment` is the simplest, the agent can select from hold, long, or short. This environment can also be used for long-only bots (it automatically follows the `can_short` flag from the strategy), where long is the enter condition and short is the exit condition. Meanwhile, in the `Base4ActionEnvironment`, the agent can enter long, enter short, hold neutral, or exit position. Finally, in the `Base5ActionEnvironment`, the agent has the same actions as Base4, but instead of a single exit action, it separates exit long and exit short. The main changes stemming from the environment selection include:
-
-* the actions available in the `calculate_reward`
-* the actions consumed by the user strategy
-
-All of the FreqAI provided environments inherit from an action/position agnostic environment object called the `BaseEnvironment`, which contains all shared logic. The architecture is designed to be easily customized. The simplest customization is the `calculate_reward()` (see details [here](#creating-a-custom-reward-function)). However, the customizations can be further extended into any of the functions inside the environment. You can do this by simply overriding those functions inside your `MyRLEnv` in the prediction model file. Or for more advanced customizations, it is encouraged to create an entirely new environment inherited from `BaseEnvironment`.
-
-!!! Note
-    Only the `Base3ActionRLEnv` can do long-only training/trading (set the user strategy attribute `can_short = False`).
+![tensorboard](assets/tensorboard.png)

docs/freqai-running.md

@@ -41,11 +41,11 @@ FreqAI stores new model files after each successful training. These files become
 
 ```json
     "freqai": {
-        "purge_old_models": 4,
+        "purge_old_models": true,
     }
 ```
 
-This will automatically purge all models older than the four most recently trained ones to save disk space. Inputing "0" will never purge any models.
+This will automatically purge all models older than the two most recently trained ones to save disk space.
 
 ## Backtesting
 
@@ -67,29 +67,18 @@ Backtesting mode requires [downloading the necessary data](#downloading-data-to-
     *want* to retrain a new model with the same config file, you should simply change the `identifier`.
     This way, you can return to using any model you wish by simply specifying the `identifier`.
 
-!!! Note
-    Backtesting calls `set_freqai_targets()` one time for each backtest window (where the number of windows is the full backtest timerange divided by the `backtest_period_days` parameter). Doing this means that the targets simulate dry/live behavior without look ahead bias. However, the definition of the features in `feature_engineering_*()` is performed once on the entire training timerange. This means that you should be sure that features do not look-ahead into the future.
-    More details about look-ahead bias can be found in [Common Mistakes](strategy-customization.md#common-mistakes-when-developing-strategies).
-
 ---
 
 ### Saving prediction data
 
 To allow for tweaking your strategy (**not** the features!), FreqAI will automatically save the predictions during backtesting so that they can be reused for future backtests and live runs using the same `identifier` model. This provides a performance enhancement geared towards enabling **high-level hyperopting** of entry/exit criteria.
 
-An additional directory called `backtesting_predictions`, which contains all the predictions stored in `hdf` format, will be created in the `unique-id` folder.
+An additional directory called `predictions`, which contains all the predictions stored in `hdf` format, will be created in the `unique-id` folder.
 
 To change your **features**, you **must** set a new `identifier` in the config to signal to FreqAI to train new models.
 
 To save the models generated during a particular backtest so that you can start a live deployment from one of them instead of training a new model, you must set `save_backtest_models` to `True` in the config.
 
-### Backtest live collected predictions
-
-FreqAI allow you to reuse live historic predictions through the backtest parameter `--freqai-backtest-live-models`. This can be useful when you want to reuse predictions generated in dry/run for comparison or other study.
-
-The `--timerange` parameter must not be informed, as it will be automatically calculated through the data in the historic predictions file.
-
-
 ### Downloading data to cover the full backtest period
 
 For live/dry deployments, FreqAI will download the necessary data automatically. However, to use backtesting functionality, you need to download the necessary data using `download-data` (details [here](data-download.md#data-downloading)). You need to pay careful attention to understanding how much *additional* data needs to be downloaded to ensure that there is a sufficient amount of training data *before* the start of the backtesting time range. The amount of additional data can be roughly estimated by moving the start date of the time range backwards by `train_period_days` and the `startup_candle_count` (see the [parameter table](freqai-parameter-table.md) for detailed descriptions of these parameters) from the beginning of the desired backtesting time range. 
@@ -120,7 +109,7 @@ In the presented example config, the user will only allow predictions on models
 
 Model training parameters are unique to the selected machine learning library. FreqAI allows you to set any parameter for any library using the `model_training_parameters` dictionary in the config. The example config (found in `config_examples/config_freqai.example.json`) shows some of the example parameters associated with `Catboost` and `LightGBM`, but you can add any parameters available in those libraries or any other machine learning library you choose to implement.
 
-Data split parameters are defined in `data_split_parameters` which can be any parameters associated with scikit-learn's `train_test_split()` function. `train_test_split()` has a parameters called `shuffle` which allows to shuffle the data or keep it unshuffled. This is particularly useful to avoid biasing training with temporally auto-correlated data. More details about these parameters can be found the [scikit-learn website](https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.model_selection.train_test_split.html) (external website).
+Data split parameters are defined in `data_split_parameters` which can be any parameters associated with Scikit-learn's `train_test_split()` function. `train_test_split()` has a parameters called `shuffle` which allows to shuffle the data or keep it unshuffled. This is particularly useful to avoid biasing training with temporally auto-correlated data. More details about these parameters can be found the [Scikit-learn website](https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.model_selection.train_test_split.html) (external website).
 
 The FreqAI specific parameter `label_period_candles` defines the offset (number of candles into the future) used for the `labels`. In the presented [example config](freqai-configuration.md#setting-up-the-configuration-file), the user is asking for `labels` that are 24 candles in the future.
 
@@ -128,12 +117,6 @@ The FreqAI specific parameter `label_period_candles` defines the offset (number
 
 You can choose to adopt a continual learning scheme by setting `"continual_learning": true` in the config. By enabling `continual_learning`, after training an initial model from scratch, subsequent trainings will start from the final model state of the preceding training. This gives the new model a "memory" of the previous state. By default, this is set to `False` which means that all new models are trained from scratch, without input from previous models.
 
-???+ danger "Continual learning enforces a constant parameter space"
-    Since `continual_learning` means that the model parameter space *cannot* change between trainings, `principal_component_analysis` is automatically disabled when `continual_learning` is enabled. Hint: PCA changes the parameter space and the number of features, learn more about PCA [here](freqai-feature-engineering.md#data-dimensionality-reduction-with-principal-component-analysis).
-
-???+ danger "Experimental functionality"
-    Beware that this is currently a naive approach to incremental learning, and it has a high probability of overfitting/getting stuck in local minima while the market moves away from your model. We have the mechanics available in FreqAI primarily for experimental purposes and so that it is ready for more mature approaches to continual learning in chaotic systems like the crypto market.
-
 ## Hyperopt
 
 You can hyperopt using the same command as for [typical Freqtrade hyperopt](hyperopt.md):
@@ -145,7 +128,7 @@ freqtrade hyperopt --hyperopt-loss SharpeHyperOptLoss --strategy FreqaiExampleSt
 `hyperopt` requires you to have the data pre-downloaded in the same fashion as if you were doing [backtesting](#backtesting). In addition, you must consider some restrictions when trying to hyperopt FreqAI strategies:
 
 - The `--analyze-per-epoch` hyperopt parameter is not compatible with FreqAI.
-- It's not possible to hyperopt indicators in the `feature_engineering_*()` and `set_freqai_targets()` functions. This means that you cannot optimize model parameters using hyperopt. Apart from this exception, it is possible to optimize all other [spaces](hyperopt.md#running-hyperopt-with-smaller-search-space).
+- It's not possible to hyperopt indicators in the `populate_any_indicators()` function. This means that you cannot optimize model parameters using hyperopt. Apart from this exception, it is possible to optimize all other [spaces](hyperopt.md#running-hyperopt-with-smaller-search-space).
 - The backtesting instructions also apply to hyperopt.
 
 The best method for combining hyperopt and FreqAI is to focus on hyperopting entry/exit thresholds/criteria. You need to focus on hyperopting parameters that are not used in your features. For example, you should not try to hyperopt rolling window lengths in the feature creation, or any part of the FreqAI config which changes predictions. In order to efficiently hyperopt the FreqAI strategy, FreqAI stores predictions as dataframes and reuses them. Hence the requirement to hyperopt entry/exit thresholds/criteria only.
@@ -159,26 +142,15 @@ dataframe['outlier'] = np.where(dataframe['DI_values'] > self.di_max.value/10, 1
 
 This specific hyperopt would help you understand the appropriate `DI_values` for your particular parameter space.
 
-## Using Tensorboard
+## Setting up a follower
 
-!!! note "Availability"
-    FreqAI includes tensorboard for a variety of models, including XGBoost, all PyTorch models, Reinforcement Learning, and Catboost. If you would like to see Tensorboard integrated into another model type, please open an issue on the [Freqtrade GitHub](https://github.com/freqtrade/freqtrade/issues)
+You can indicate to the bot that it should not train models, but instead should look for models trained by a leader with a specific `identifier` by defining:
 
-!!! danger "Requirements"
-    Tensorboard logging requires the FreqAI torch installation/docker image.
-
-
-The easiest way to use tensorboard is to ensure `freqai.activate_tensorboard` is set to `True` (default setting) in your configuration file, run FreqAI, then open a separate shell and run:
-
-```bash
-cd freqtrade
-tensorboard --logdir user_data/models/unique-id
+```json
+    "freqai": {
+        "follow_mode": true,
+        "identifier": "example"
+    }
 ```
 
-where `unique-id` is the `identifier` set in the `freqai` configuration file. This command must be run in a separate shell if you wish to view the output in your browser at 127.0.0.1:6060 (6060 is the default port used by Tensorboard).
-
-![tensorboard](assets/tensorboard.jpg)
-
-
-!!! note "Deactivate for improved performance"
-    Tensorboard logging can slow down training and should be deactivated for production use.
+In this example, the user has a leader bot with the `"identifier": "example"`. The leader bot is already running or is launched simultaneously with the follower. The follower will load models created by the leader and inference them to obtain predictions instead of training its own models.

docs/freqai.md

@@ -4,10 +4,7 @@
 
 ## Introduction
 
-FreqAI is a software designed to automate a variety of tasks associated with training a predictive machine learning model to generate market forecasts given a set of input signals. In general, FreqAI aims to be a sandbox for easily deploying robust machine learning libraries on real-time data ([details](#freqai-position-in-open-source-machine-learning-landscape)).
-
-!!! Note
-    FreqAI is, and always will be, a not-for-profit, open-source project. FreqAI does *not* have a crypto token, FreqAI does *not* sell signals, and FreqAI does not have a domain besides the present [freqtrade documentation](https://www.freqtrade.io/en/latest/freqai/).
+FreqAI is a software designed to automate a variety of tasks associated with training a predictive machine learning model to generate market forecasts given a set of input features.
 
 Features include:
 
@@ -22,7 +19,7 @@ Features include:
 * **Automatic data download** - Compute timeranges for data downloads and update historic data (in live deployments)
 * **Cleaning of incoming data** - Handle NaNs safely before training and model inferencing
 * **Dimensionality reduction** - Reduce the size of the training data via [Principal Component Analysis](freqai-feature-engineering.md#data-dimensionality-reduction-with-principal-component-analysis)
-* **Deploying bot fleets** - Set one bot to train models while a fleet of [consumers](producer-consumer.md) use signals.
+* **Deploying bot fleets** - Set one bot to train models while a fleet of [follower bots](freqai-running.md#setting-up-a-follower) inference the models and handle trades
 
 ## Quick start
 
@@ -32,10 +29,7 @@ The easiest way to quickly test FreqAI is to run it in dry mode with the followi
 freqtrade trade --config config_examples/config_freqai.example.json --strategy FreqaiExampleStrategy --freqaimodel LightGBMRegressor --strategy-path freqtrade/templates
 ```
 
-You will see the boot-up process of automatic data downloading, followed by simultaneous training and trading. 
-
-!!! danger "Not for production"
-    The example strategy provided with the Freqtrade source code is designed for showcasing/testing a wide variety of FreqAI features. It is also designed to run on small computers so that it can be used as a benchmark between developers and users. It is *not* designed to be run in production.
+You will see the boot-up process of automatic data downloading, followed by simultaneous training and trading.
 
 An example strategy, prediction model, and config to use as a starting points can be found in
 `freqtrade/templates/FreqaiExampleStrategy.py`, `freqtrade/freqai/prediction_models/LightGBMRegressor.py`, and
@@ -72,33 +66,11 @@ pip install -r requirements-freqai.txt
 ```
 
 !!! Note
-    Catboost will not be installed on low-powered arm devices (raspberry), since it does not provide wheels for this platform.
+    Catboost will not be installed on arm devices (raspberry, Mac M1, ARM based VPS, ...), since it does not provide wheels for this platform.
 
 ### Usage with docker
 
-If you are using docker, a dedicated tag with FreqAI dependencies is available as `:freqai`. As such - you can replace the image line in your docker compose file with `image: freqtradeorg/freqtrade:develop_freqai`. This image contains the regular FreqAI dependencies. Similar to native installs, Catboost will not be available on ARM based devices. If you would like to use PyTorch or Reinforcement learning, you should use the torch or RL tags, `image: freqtradeorg/freqtrade:develop_freqaitorch`, `image: freqtradeorg/freqtrade:develop_freqairl`.
-
-!!! note "docker-compose-freqai.yml"
-   We do provide an explicit docker-compose file for this in `docker/docker-compose-freqai.yml` - which can be used via `docker compose -f docker/docker-compose-freqai.yml run ...` - or can be copied to replace the original docker file. This docker-compose file also contains a (disabled) section to enable GPU resources within docker containers. This obviously assumes the system has GPU resources available.
-
-### FreqAI position in open-source machine learning landscape
-
-Forecasting chaotic time-series based systems, such as equity/cryptocurrency markets, requires a broad set of tools geared toward testing a wide range of hypotheses. Fortunately, a recent maturation of robust machine learning libraries (e.g. `scikit-learn`) has opened up a wide range of research possibilities. Scientists from a diverse range of fields can now easily prototype their studies on an abundance of established machine learning algorithms. Similarly, these user-friendly libraries enable "citzen scientists" to use their basic Python skills for data exploration. However, leveraging these machine learning libraries on historical and live chaotic data sources can be logistically difficult and expensive. Additionally, robust data collection, storage, and handling presents a disparate challenge. [`FreqAI`](#freqai) aims to provide a generalized and extensible open-sourced framework geared toward live deployments of adaptive modeling for market forecasting. The `FreqAI` framework is effectively a sandbox for the rich world of open-source machine learning libraries. Inside the `FreqAI` sandbox, users find they can combine a wide variety of third-party libraries to test creative hypotheses on a free live 24/7 chaotic data source - cryptocurrency exchange data. 
-
-### Citing FreqAI
-
-FreqAI is [published in the Journal of Open Source Software](https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.04864). If you find FreqAI useful in your research, please use the following citation:
-
-```bibtex
-@article{Caulk2022, 
-    doi = {10.21105/joss.04864},
-    url = {https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.04864},
-    year = {2022}, publisher = {The Open Journal},
-    volume = {7}, number = {80}, pages = {4864},
-    author = {Robert A. Caulk and Elin Törnquist and Matthias Voppichler and Andrew R. Lawless and Ryan McMullan and Wagner Costa Santos and Timothy C. Pogue and Johan van der Vlugt and Stefan P. Gehring and Pascal Schmidt},
-    title = {FreqAI: generalizing adaptive modeling for chaotic time-series market forecasts},
-    journal = {Journal of Open Source Software} } 
-```
+If you are using docker, a dedicated tag with FreqAI dependencies is available as `:freqai`. As such - you can replace the image line in your docker-compose file with `image: freqtradeorg/freqtrade:develop_freqai`. This image contains the regular FreqAI dependencies. Similar to native installs, Catboost will not be available on ARM based devices.
 
 ## Common pitfalls
 
@@ -107,18 +79,6 @@ This is for performance reasons - FreqAI relies on making quick predictions/retr
 it needs to download all the training data at the beginning of a dry/live instance. FreqAI stores and appends
 new candles automatically for future retrains. This means that if new pairs arrive later in the dry run due to a volume pairlist, it will not have the data ready. However, FreqAI does work with the `ShufflePairlist` or a `VolumePairlist` which keeps the total pairlist constant (but reorders the pairs according to volume).
 
-## Additional learning materials
-
-Here we compile some external materials that provide deeper looks into various components of FreqAI:
-
-- [Real-time head-to-head: Adaptive modeling of financial market data using XGBoost and CatBoost](https://emergentmethods.medium.com/real-time-head-to-head-adaptive-modeling-of-financial-market-data-using-xgboost-and-catboost-995a115a7495)
-- [FreqAI - from price to prediction](https://emergentmethods.medium.com/freqai-from-price-to-prediction-6fadac18b665)
-
-
-## Support
-
-You can find support for FreqAI in a variety of places, including the [Freqtrade discord](https://discord.gg/Jd8JYeWHc4), the dedicated [FreqAI discord](https://discord.gg/7AMWACmbjT), and in [github issues](https://github.com/freqtrade/freqtrade/issues).
-
 ## Credits
 
 FreqAI is developed by a group of individuals who all contribute specific skillsets to the project.
@@ -134,8 +94,6 @@ Code review and software architecture brainstorming:
 
 Software development:
 Wagner Costa @wagnercosta
-Emre Suzen @aemr3
-Timothy Pogue @wizrds
 
 Beta testing and bug reporting:
-Stefan Gehring @bloodhunter4rc, @longyu, Andrew Lawless @paranoidandy, Pascal Schmidt @smidelis, Ryan McMullan @smarmau, Juha Nykänen @suikula, Johan van der Vlugt @jooopiert, Richárd Józsa @richardjosza
+Stefan Gehring @bloodhunter4rc, @longyu, Andrew Lawless @paranoidandy, Pascal Schmidt @smidelis, Ryan McMullan @smarmau, Juha Nykänen @suikula, Johan van der Vlugt @jooopiert, Richárd Józsa @richardjosza, Timothy Pogue @wizrds

docs/hyperopt.md

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ The docker-image includes hyperopt dependencies, no further action needed.
 ### Easy installation script (setup.sh) / Manual installation
 
 ```bash
-source .venv/bin/activate
+source .env/bin/activate
 pip install -r requirements-hyperopt.txt
 ```
 
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ usage: freqtrade hyperopt [-h] [-v] [--logfile FILE] [-V] [-c PATH] [-d PATH]
                           [--eps] [--dmmp] [--enable-protections]
                           [--dry-run-wallet DRY_RUN_WALLET]
                           [--timeframe-detail TIMEFRAME_DETAIL] [-e INT]
-                          [--spaces {all,buy,sell,roi,stoploss,trailing,protection,trades,default} [{all,buy,sell,roi,stoploss,trailing,protection,trades,default} ...]]
+                          [--spaces {all,buy,sell,roi,stoploss,trailing,protection,default} [{all,buy,sell,roi,stoploss,trailing,protection,default} ...]]
                           [--print-all] [--no-color] [--print-json] [-j JOBS]
                           [--random-state INT] [--min-trades INT]
                           [--hyperopt-loss NAME] [--disable-param-export]
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ optional arguments:
                         Specify detail timeframe for backtesting (`1m`, `5m`,
                         `30m`, `1h`, `1d`).
   -e INT, --epochs INT  Specify number of epochs (default: 100).
-  --spaces {all,buy,sell,roi,stoploss,trailing,protection,trades,default} [{all,buy,sell,roi,stoploss,trailing,protection,trades,default} ...]
+  --spaces {all,buy,sell,roi,stoploss,trailing,protection,default} [{all,buy,sell,roi,stoploss,trailing,protection,default} ...]
                         Specify which parameters to hyperopt. Space-separated
                         list.
   --print-all           Print all results, not only the best ones.
@@ -180,7 +180,6 @@ Rarely you may also need to create a [nested class](advanced-hyperopt.md#overrid
 * `generate_roi_table` - for custom ROI optimization (if you need the ranges for the values in the ROI table that differ from default or the number of entries (steps) in the ROI table which differs from the default 4 steps)
 * `stoploss_space` - for custom stoploss optimization (if you need the range for the stoploss parameter in the optimization hyperspace that differs from default)
 * `trailing_space` - for custom trailing stop optimization (if you need the ranges for the trailing stop parameters in the optimization hyperspace that differ from default)
-* `max_open_trades_space` - for custom max_open_trades optimization (if you need the ranges for the max_open_trades parameter in the optimization hyperspace that differ from default)
 
 !!! Tip "Quickly optimize ROI, stoploss and trailing stoploss"
     You can quickly optimize the spaces `roi`, `stoploss` and `trailing` without changing anything in your strategy.
@@ -337,15 +336,11 @@ There are four parameter types each suited for different purposes.
 * `CategoricalParameter` - defines a parameter with a predetermined number of choices.
 * `BooleanParameter` - Shorthand for `CategoricalParameter([True, False])` - great for "enable" parameters.
 
-### Parameter options
-
-There are two parameter options that can help you to quickly test various ideas:
-
-* `optimize` - when set to `False`, the parameter will not be included in optimization process. (Default: True)
-* `load` - when set to `False`, results of a previous hyperopt run (in `buy_params` and `sell_params` either in your strategy or the JSON output file) will not be used as the starting value for subsequent hyperopts. The default value specified in the parameter will be used instead. (Default: True)
-
-!!! Tip "Effects of `load=False` on backtesting"
-    Be aware that setting the `load` option to `False` will mean backtesting will also use the default value specified in the parameter and *not* the value found through hyperoptimisation.
+!!! Tip "Disabling parameter optimization"
+    Each parameter takes two boolean parameters:
+    * `load` - when set to `False` it will not load values configured in `buy_params` and `sell_params`.
+    * `optimize` - when set to `False` parameter will not be included in optimization process.
+    Use these parameters to quickly prototype various ideas.
 
 !!! Warning
     Hyperoptable parameters cannot be used in `populate_indicators` - as hyperopt does not recalculate indicators for each epoch, so the starting value would be used in this case.
@@ -370,7 +365,7 @@ class MyAwesomeStrategy(IStrategy):
     timeframe = '15m'
     minimal_roi = {
         "0":  0.10
-    }
+    },
     # Define the parameter spaces
     buy_ema_short = IntParameter(3, 50, default=5)
     buy_ema_long = IntParameter(15, 200, default=50)
@@ -405,7 +400,7 @@ class MyAwesomeStrategy(IStrategy):
         return dataframe
 
     def populate_exit_trend(self, dataframe: DataFrame, metadata: dict) -> DataFrame:
-        conditions = []
+          conditions = []
         conditions.append(qtpylib.crossed_above(
                 dataframe[f'ema_long_{self.buy_ema_long.value}'], dataframe[f'ema_short_{self.buy_ema_short.value}']
             ))
@@ -437,14 +432,9 @@ While this strategy is most likely too simple to provide consistent profit, it s
     `range` property may also be used with `DecimalParameter` and `CategoricalParameter`. `RealParameter` does not provide this property due to infinite search space.
 
 ??? Hint "Performance tip"
-    During normal hyperopting, indicators are calculated once and supplied to each epoch, linearly increasing RAM usage as a factor of increasing cores. As this also has performance implications, there are two alternatives to reduce RAM usage
+    During normal hyperopting, indicators are calculated once and supplied to each epoch, linearly increasing RAM usage as a factor of increasing cores. As this also has performance implications, hyperopt provides `--analyze-per-epoch` which will move the execution of `populate_indicators()` to the epoch process, calculating a single value per parameter per epoch instead of using the `.range` functionality. In this case, `.range` functionality will only return the actually used value. This will reduce RAM usage, but increase CPU usage. However, your hyperopting run will be less likely to fail due to Out Of Memory (OOM) issues.
 
-    * Move `ema_short` and `ema_long` calculations from `populate_indicators()` to `populate_entry_trend()`. Since `populate_entry_trend()` will be calculated every epoch, you don't need to use `.range` functionality.
-    * hyperopt provides `--analyze-per-epoch` which will move the execution of `populate_indicators()` to the epoch process, calculating a single value per parameter per epoch instead of using the `.range` functionality. In this case, `.range` functionality will only return the actually used value.
-
-    These alternatives will reduce RAM usage, but increase CPU usage. However, your hyperopting run will be less likely to fail due to Out Of Memory (OOM) issues.
-
-    Whether you are using `.range` functionality or the alternatives above, you should try to use space ranges as small as possible since this will improve CPU/RAM usage.
+    In either case, you should try to use space ranges as small as possible this will improve CPU/RAM usage in both scenarios.
 
 
 ## Optimizing protections
@@ -653,7 +643,6 @@ Legal values are:
 * `roi`: just optimize the minimal profit table for your strategy
 * `stoploss`: search for the best stoploss value
 * `trailing`: search for the best trailing stop values
-* `trades`: search for the best max open trades values
 * `protection`: search for the best protection parameters (read the [protections section](#optimizing-protections) on how to properly define these)
 * `default`: `all` except `trailing` and `protection`
 * space-separated list of any of the above values for example `--spaces roi stoploss`
@@ -926,12 +915,6 @@ Once the optimized strategy has been implemented into your strategy, you should
 
 To achieve same the results (number of trades, their durations, profit, etc.) as during Hyperopt, please use the same configuration and parameters (timerange, timeframe, ...) used for hyperopt `--dmmp`/`--disable-max-market-positions` and `--eps`/`--enable-position-stacking` for Backtesting.
 
-### Why do my backtest results not match my hyperopt results?
-Should results not match, check the following factors:
-
-* You may have added parameters to hyperopt in `populate_indicators()` where they will be calculated only once **for all epochs**. If you are, for example, trying to optimise multiple SMA timeperiod values, the hyperoptable timeperiod parameter should be placed in `populate_entry_trend()` which is calculated every epoch. See [Optimizing an indicator parameter](https://www.freqtrade.io/en/stable/hyperopt/#optimizing-an-indicator-parameter).
-* If you have disabled the auto-export of hyperopt parameters into the JSON parameters file, double-check to make sure you transferred all hyperopted values into your strategy correctly.
-* Check the logs to verify what parameters are being set and what values are being used.
-* Pay special care to the stoploss, max_open_trades and trailing stoploss parameters, as these are often set in configuration files, which override changes to the strategy. Check the logs of your backtest to ensure that there were no parameters inadvertently set by the configuration (like `stoploss`, `max_open_trades` or `trailing_stop`).
-* Verify that you do not have an unexpected parameters JSON file overriding the parameters or the default hyperopt settings in your strategy.
-* Verify that any protections that are enabled in backtesting are also enabled when hyperopting, and vice versa. When using `--space protection`, protections are auto-enabled for hyperopting.
+Should results not match, please double-check to make sure you transferred all conditions correctly.
+Pay special care to the stoploss (and trailing stoploss) parameters, as these are often set in configuration files, which override changes to the strategy.
+You should also carefully review the log of your backtest to ensure that there were no parameters inadvertently set by the configuration (like `stoploss` or `trailing_stop`).

docs/includes/pairlists.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ In your configuration, you can use Static Pairlist (defined by the [`StaticPairL
 
 Additionally, [`AgeFilter`](#agefilter), [`PrecisionFilter`](#precisionfilter), [`PriceFilter`](#pricefilter), [`ShuffleFilter`](#shufflefilter), [`SpreadFilter`](#spreadfilter) and [`VolatilityFilter`](#volatilityfilter) act as Pairlist Filters, removing certain pairs and/or moving their positions in the pairlist.
 
-If multiple Pairlist Handlers are used, they are chained and a combination of all Pairlist Handlers forms the resulting pairlist the bot uses for trading and backtesting. Pairlist Handlers are executed in the sequence they are configured. You can define either `StaticPairList`, `VolumePairList`, `ProducerPairList`, `RemotePairList` or `MarketCapPairList` as the starting Pairlist Handler.
+If multiple Pairlist Handlers are used, they are chained and a combination of all Pairlist Handlers forms the resulting pairlist the bot uses for trading and backtesting. Pairlist Handlers are executed in the sequence they are configured. You should always configure either `StaticPairList` or `VolumePairList` as the starting Pairlist Handler.
 
 Inactive markets are always removed from the resulting pairlist. Explicitly blacklisted pairs (those in the `pair_blacklist` configuration setting) are also always removed from the resulting pairlist.
 
@@ -23,10 +23,7 @@ You may also use something like `.*DOWN/BTC` or `.*UP/BTC` to exclude leveraged
 * [`StaticPairList`](#static-pair-list) (default, if not configured differently)
 * [`VolumePairList`](#volume-pair-list)
 * [`ProducerPairList`](#producerpairlist)
-* [`RemotePairList`](#remotepairlist)
-* [`MarketCapPairList`](#marketcappairlist)
 * [`AgeFilter`](#agefilter)
-* [`FullTradesFilter`](#fulltradesfilter)
 * [`OffsetFilter`](#offsetfilter)
 * [`PerformanceFilter`](#performancefilter)
 * [`PrecisionFilter`](#precisionfilter)
@@ -68,7 +65,7 @@ When used in the leading position of the chain of Pairlist Handlers, the `pair_w
 
 The `refresh_period` setting allows to define the period (in seconds), at which the pairlist will be refreshed. Defaults to 1800s (30 minutes).
 The pairlist cache (`refresh_period`) on `VolumePairList` is only applicable to generating pairlists.
-Filtering instances (not the first position in the list) will not apply any cache (beyond caching candles for the duration of the candle in advanced mode) and will always use up-to-date data.
+Filtering instances (not the first position in the list) will not apply any cache and will always use up-to-date data.
 
 `VolumePairList` is per default based on the ticker data from exchange, as reported by the ccxt library:
 
@@ -81,14 +78,12 @@ Filtering instances (not the first position in the list) will not apply any cach
         "number_assets": 20,
         "sort_key": "quoteVolume",
         "min_value": 0,
-        "max_value": 8000000,
         "refresh_period": 1800
     }
 ],
 ```
 
 You can define a minimum volume with `min_value` - which will filter out pairs with a volume lower than the specified value in the specified timerange.
-In addition to that, you can also define a maximum volume with `max_value` - which will filter out pairs with a volume higher than the specified value in the specified timerange.
 
 ##### VolumePairList Advanced mode
 
@@ -115,8 +110,8 @@ For convenience `lookback_days` can be specified, which will imply that 1d candl
 !!! Warning "Performance implications when using lookback range"
     If used in first position in combination with lookback, the computation of the range based volume can be time and resource consuming, as it downloads candles for all tradable pairs. Hence it's highly advised to use the standard approach with `VolumeFilter` to narrow the pairlist down for further range volume calculation.
 
-??? Tip "Unsupported exchanges"
-    On some exchanges (like Gemini), regular VolumePairList does not work as the api does not natively provide 24h volume. This can be worked around by using candle data to build the volume.
+??? Tip "Unsupported exchanges (Bittrex, Gemini)"
+    On some exchanges (like Bittrex and Gemini), regular VolumePairList does not work as the api does not natively provide 24h volume. This can be worked around by using candle data to build the volume.
     To roughly simulate 24h volume, you can use the following configuration.
     Please note that These pairlists will only refresh once per day.
 
@@ -178,114 +173,6 @@ You can limit the length of the pairlist with the optional parameter `number_ass
     `ProducerPairList` can also be used multiple times in sequence, combining the pairs from multiple producers.
     Obviously in complex such configurations, the Producer may not provide data for all pairs, so the strategy must be fit for this.
 
-#### RemotePairList
-
-It allows the user to fetch a pairlist from a remote server or a locally stored json file within the freqtrade directory, enabling dynamic updates and customization of the trading pairlist.
-
-The RemotePairList is defined in the pairlists section of the configuration settings. It uses the following configuration options:
-
-```json
-"pairlists": [
-    {
-        "method": "RemotePairList",
-        "mode": "whitelist",
-        "processing_mode": "filter",
-        "pairlist_url": "https://example.com/pairlist",
-        "number_assets": 10,
-        "refresh_period": 1800,
-        "keep_pairlist_on_failure": true,
-        "read_timeout": 60,
-        "bearer_token": "my-bearer-token",
-        "save_to_file": "user_data/filename.json" 
-    }
-]
-```
-
-The optional `mode` option specifies if the pairlist should be used as a `blacklist` or as a `whitelist`. The default value is "whitelist".
-
-The optional `processing_mode` option in the RemotePairList configuration determines how the retrieved pairlist is processed. It can have two values: "filter" or "append". The default value is "filter".
-
-In "filter" mode, the retrieved pairlist is used as a filter. Only the pairs present in both the original pairlist and the retrieved pairlist are included in the final pairlist. Other pairs are filtered out.
-
-In "append" mode, the retrieved pairlist is added to the original pairlist. All pairs from both lists are included in the final pairlist without any filtering.
-
-The `pairlist_url` option specifies the URL of the remote server where the pairlist is located, or the path to a local file (if file:/// is prepended). This allows the user to use either a remote server or a local file as the source for the pairlist.
-
-The `save_to_file` option, when provided with a valid filename, saves the processed pairlist to that file in JSON format. This option is optional, and by default, the pairlist is not saved to a file.
-
-??? Example "Multi bot with shared pairlist example"
-    
-    `save_to_file` can be used to save the pairlist to a file with Bot1:
-
-    ```json
-    "pairlists": [
-        {
-            "method": "RemotePairList",
-            "mode": "whitelist",
-            "pairlist_url": "https://example.com/pairlist",
-            "number_assets": 10,
-            "refresh_period": 1800,
-            "keep_pairlist_on_failure": true,
-            "read_timeout": 60,
-            "save_to_file": "user_data/filename.json" 
-        }
-    ]
-    ```
-
-    This saved pairlist file can be loaded by Bot2, or any additional bot with this configuration:
-
-    ```json
-    "pairlists": [
-        {
-            "method": "RemotePairList",
-            "mode": "whitelist",
-            "pairlist_url": "file:///user_data/filename.json",
-            "number_assets": 10,
-            "refresh_period": 10,
-            "keep_pairlist_on_failure": true,
-        }
-    ]
-    ```    
-
-The user is responsible for providing a server or local file that returns a JSON object with the following structure:
-
-```json
-{
-    "pairs": ["XRP/USDT", "ETH/USDT", "LTC/USDT"],
-    "refresh_period": 1800
-}
-```
-
-The `pairs` property should contain a list of strings with the trading pairs to be used by the bot. The `refresh_period` property is optional and specifies the number of seconds that the pairlist should be cached before being refreshed.
-
-The optional `keep_pairlist_on_failure` specifies whether the previous received pairlist should be used if the remote server is not reachable or returns an error. The default value is true.
-
-The optional `read_timeout` specifies the maximum amount of time (in seconds) to wait for a response from the remote source, The default value is 60.
-
-The optional `bearer_token` will be included in the requests Authorization Header.
-
-!!! Note
-    In case of a server error the last received pairlist will be kept if `keep_pairlist_on_failure` is set to true, when set to false a empty pairlist is returned.
-
-#### MarketCapPairList
-
-`MarketCapPairList` employs sorting/filtering of pairs by their marketcap rank based of CoinGecko. It will only recognize coins up to the coin placed at rank 250. The returned pairlist will be sorted based of their marketcap ranks.
-
-```json
-"pairlists": [
-    {
-        "method": "MarketCapPairList",
-        "number_assets": 20,
-        "max_rank": 50,
-        "refresh_period": 86400
-    }
-]
-```
-
-`number_assets` defines the maximum number of pairs returned by the pairlist. `max_rank` will determine the maximum rank used in creating/filtering the pairlist. It's expected that some coins within the top `max_rank` marketcap will not be included in the resulting pairlist since not all pairs will have active trading pairs in your preferred market/stake/exchange combination.
-
-`refresh_period` setting defines the period (in seconds) at which the marketcap rank data will be refreshed. Defaults to 86,400s (1 day). The pairlist cache (`refresh_period`) is applicable on both generating pairlists (first position in the list) and filtering instances (not the first position in the list).
-
 #### AgeFilter
 
 Removes pairs that have been listed on the exchange for less than `min_days_listed` days (defaults to `10`) or more than `max_days_listed` days (defaults `None` mean infinity).
@@ -296,17 +183,6 @@ be caught out buying before the pair has finished dropping in price.
 
 This filter allows freqtrade to ignore pairs until they have been listed for at least `min_days_listed` days and listed before `max_days_listed`.
 
-#### FullTradesFilter
-
-Shrink whitelist to consist only in-trade pairs when the trade slots are full (when `max_open_trades` isn't being set to `-1` in the config).
-
-When the trade slots are full, there is no need to calculate indicators of the rest of the pairs (except informative pairs) since no new trade can be opened. By shrinking the whitelist to just the in-trade pairs, you can improve calculation speeds and reduce CPU usage. When a trade slot is free (either a trade is closed or `max_open_trades` value in config is increased), then the whitelist will return to normal state.
-
-When multiple pairlist filters are being used, it's recommended to put this filter at second position directly below the primary pairlist, so when the trade slots are full, the bot doesn't have to download data for the rest of the filters.
-
-!!! Warning "Backtesting"
-    `FullTradesFilter` does not support backtesting mode.
-
 #### OffsetFilter
 
 Offsets an incoming pairlist by a given `offset` value.
@@ -371,11 +247,6 @@ As this Filter uses past performance of the bot, it'll have some startup-period
 
 Filters low-value coins which would not allow setting stoplosses.
 
-Namely, pairs are blacklisted if a variance of one percent or more in the stop price would be caused by precision rounding on the exchange, i.e. `rounded(stop_price) <= rounded(stop_price * 0.99)`. The idea is to avoid coins with a value VERY close to their lower trading boundary, not allowing setting of proper stoploss.
-
-!!! Tip "PerformanceFilter is pointless for futures trading"
-    The above does not apply to shorts. And for longs, in theory the trade will be liquidated first.
-
 !!! Warning "Backtesting"
     `PrecisionFilter` does not support backtesting mode using multiple strategies.
 
@@ -397,7 +268,7 @@ This option is disabled by default, and will only apply if set to > 0.
 The `max_value` setting removes pairs where the minimum value change is above a specified value.
 This is useful when an exchange has unbalanced limits. For example, if step-size = 1 (so you can only buy 1, or 2, or 3, but not 1.1 Coins) - and the price is pretty high (like 20\$) as the coin has risen sharply since the last limit adaption.
 As a result of the above, you can only buy for 20\$, or 40\$ - but not for 25\$.
-On exchanges that deduct fees from the receiving currency (e.g. binance) - this can result in high value coins / amounts that are unsellable as the amount is slightly below the limit.
+On exchanges that deduct fees from the receiving currency (e.g. FTX) - this can result in high value coins / amounts that are unsellable as the amount is slightly below the limit.
 
 The `low_price_ratio` setting removes pairs where a raise of 1 price unit (pip) is above the `low_price_ratio` ratio.
 This option is disabled by default, and will only apply if set to > 0.
@@ -415,18 +286,6 @@ Min price precision for SHITCOIN/BTC is 8 decimals. If its price is 0.00000011 -
 
 Shuffles (randomizes) pairs in the pairlist. It can be used for preventing the bot from trading some of the pairs more frequently then others when you want all pairs be treated with the same priority.
 
-By default, ShuffleFilter will shuffle pairs once per candle.
-To shuffle on every iteration, set `"shuffle_frequency"` to `"iteration"` instead of  the default of `"candle"`.
-
-``` json
-    {
-        "method": "ShuffleFilter", 
-        "shuffle_frequency": "candle",
-        "seed": 42
-    }
-
-```
-
 !!! Tip
     You may set the `seed` value for this Pairlist to obtain reproducible results, which can be useful for repeated backtesting sessions. If `seed` is not set, the pairs are shuffled in the non-repeatable random order. ShuffleFilter will automatically detect runmodes and apply the `seed` only for backtesting modes - if a `seed` value is set.
 
@@ -452,13 +311,11 @@ If the trading range over the last 10 days is <1% or >99%, remove the pair from
         "lookback_days": 10,
         "min_rate_of_change": 0.01,
         "max_rate_of_change": 0.99,
-        "refresh_period": 86400
+        "refresh_period": 1440
     }
 ]
 ```
 
-Adding `"sort_direction": "asc"` or `"sort_direction": "desc"` enables sorting for this pairlist.
-
 !!! Tip
     This Filter can be used to automatically remove stable coin pairs, which have a very low trading range, and are therefore extremely difficult to trade with profit.
     Additionally, it can also be used to automatically remove pairs with extreme high/low variance over a given amount of time.
@@ -469,7 +326,7 @@ Volatility is the degree of historical variation of a pairs over time, it is mea
 
 This filter removes pairs if the average volatility over a `lookback_days` days is below `min_volatility` or above `max_volatility`. Since this is a filter that requires additional data, the results are cached for `refresh_period`.
 
-This filter can be used to narrow down your pairs to a certain volatility or avoid very volatile pairs.
+This filter can be used to narrow down your pairs to a certain volatility or avoid very volatile pairs. 
 
 In the below example:
 If the volatility over the last 10 days is not in the range of 0.05-0.50, remove the pair from the whitelist. The filter is applied every 24h.
@@ -486,8 +343,6 @@ If the volatility over the last 10 days is not in the range of 0.05-0.50, remove
 ]
 ```
 
-Adding `"sort_direction": "asc"` or `"sort_direction": "desc"` enables sorting mode for this pairlist.
-
 ### Full example of Pairlist Handlers
 
 The below example blacklists `BNB/BTC`, uses `VolumePairList` with `20` assets, sorting pairs by `quoteVolume` and applies [`PrecisionFilter`](#precisionfilter) and [`PriceFilter`](#pricefilter), filtering all assets where 1 price unit is > 1%. Then the [`SpreadFilter`](#spreadfilter) and [`VolatilityFilter`](#volatilityfilter) is applied and pairs are finally shuffled with the random seed set to some predefined value.
@@ -511,7 +366,7 @@ The below example blacklists `BNB/BTC`, uses `VolumePairList` with `20` assets,
         "method": "RangeStabilityFilter",
         "lookback_days": 10,
         "min_rate_of_change": 0.01,
-        "refresh_period": 86400
+        "refresh_period": 1440
     },
     {
         "method": "VolatilityFilter",

docs/includes/protections.md

@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ The below example assumes a timeframe of 1 hour:
 * Locks each pair after selling for an additional 5 candles (`CooldownPeriod`), giving other pairs a chance to get filled.
 * Stops trading for 4 hours (`4 * 1h candles`) if the last 2 days (`48 * 1h candles`) had 20 trades, which caused a max-drawdown of more than 20%. (`MaxDrawdown`).
 * Stops trading if more than 4 stoploss occur for all pairs within a 1 day (`24 * 1h candles`) limit (`StoplossGuard`).
-* Locks all pairs that had 2 Trades within the last 6 hours (`6 * 1h candles`) with a combined profit ratio of below 0.02 (<2%) (`LowProfitPairs`).
+* Locks all pairs that had 4 Trades within the last 6 hours (`6 * 1h candles`) with a combined profit ratio of below 0.02 (<2%) (`LowProfitPairs`).
 * Locks all pairs for 2 candles that had a profit of below 0.01 (<1%) within the last 24h (`24 * 1h candles`), a minimum of 4 trades.
 
 ``` python

docs/includes/release_template.md

@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-## Highlighted changes
-
-- ...
-
-### How to update
-
-As always, you can update your bot using one of the following commands:
-
-#### docker-compose
-
-```bash
-docker-compose pull
-docker-compose up -d
-```
-
-#### Installation via setup script
-
-```
-# Deactivate venv and run 
-./setup.sh --update
-```
-
-#### Plain native installation
-
-```
-git pull
-pip install -U -r requirements.txt
-```
-
-<details>
-<summary>Expand full changelog</summary>
-
-```
-<Paste your changelog here>
-```
-
-</details>

docs/includes/showcase.md

@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-This section will highlight a few projects from members of the community.
-!!! Note
-    The projects below are for the most part not maintained by the freqtrade , therefore use your own caution before using them.
-
-- [Example freqtrade strategies](https://github.com/freqtrade/freqtrade-strategies/)
-- [FrequentHippo - Grafana dashboard with dry/live runs and backtests](http://frequenthippo.ddns.net:3000/) (by hippocritical).
-- [Online pairlist generator](https://remotepairlist.com/) (by Blood4rc).
-- [Freqtrade Backtesting Project](https://strat.ninja/) (by Blood4rc).
-- [Freqtrade analysis notebook](https://github.com/froggleston/freqtrade_analysis_notebook) (by Froggleston).
-- [TUI for freqtrade](https://github.com/froggleston/freqtrade-frogtrade9000) (by Froggleston).
-- [Bot Academy](https://botacademy.ddns.net/) (by stash86) - Blog about crypto bot projects.

docs/index.md

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 ![freqtrade](assets/freqtrade_poweredby.svg)
 
 [![Freqtrade CI](https://github.com/freqtrade/freqtrade/workflows/Freqtrade%20CI/badge.svg)](https://github.com/freqtrade/freqtrade/actions/)
-[![DOI](https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.04864/status.svg)](https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.04864)
 [![Coverage Status](https://coveralls.io/repos/github/freqtrade/freqtrade/badge.svg?branch=develop&service=github)](https://coveralls.io/github/freqtrade/freqtrade?branch=develop)
 [![Maintainability](https://api.codeclimate.com/v1/badges/5737e6d668200b7518ff/maintainability)](https://codeclimate.com/github/freqtrade/freqtrade/maintainability)
 
@@ -33,16 +32,17 @@ Freqtrade is a free and open source crypto trading bot written in Python. It is
 - Run: Test your strategy with simulated money (Dry-Run mode) or deploy it with real money (Live-Trade mode).
 - Run using Edge (optional module): The concept is to find the best historical [trade expectancy](edge.md#expectancy) by markets based on variation of the stop-loss and then allow/reject markets to trade. The sizing of the trade is based on a risk of a percentage of your capital.
 - Control/Monitor: Use Telegram or a WebUI (start/stop the bot, show profit/loss, daily summary, current open trades results, etc.).
-- Analyze: Further analysis can be performed on either Backtesting data or Freqtrade trading history (SQL database), including automated standard plots, and methods to load the data into [interactive environments](data-analysis.md).
+- Analyse: Further analysis can be performed on either Backtesting data or Freqtrade trading history (SQL database), including automated standard plots, and methods to load the data into [interactive environments](data-analysis.md).
 
 ## Supported exchange marketplaces
 
 Please read the [exchange specific notes](exchanges.md) to learn about eventual, special configurations needed for each exchange.
 
 - [X] [Binance](https://www.binance.com/)
-- [X] [Bitmart](https://bitmart.com/)
+- [X] [Bittrex](https://bittrex.com/)
+- [X] [FTX](https://ftx.com/#a=2258149)
 - [X] [Gate.io](https://www.gate.io/ref/6266643)
-- [X] [HTX](https://www.htx.com/) (Former Huobi)
+- [X] [Huobi](http://huobi.com/)
 - [X] [Kraken](https://kraken.com/)
 - [X] [OKX](https://okx.com/) (Former OKEX)
 - [ ] [potentially many others through <img alt="ccxt" width="30px" src="assets/ccxt-logo.svg" />](https://github.com/ccxt/ccxt/). _(We cannot guarantee they will work)_
@@ -51,8 +51,7 @@ Please read the [exchange specific notes](exchanges.md) to learn about eventual,
 
 - [X] [Binance](https://www.binance.com/)
 - [X] [Gate.io](https://www.gate.io/ref/6266643)
-- [X] [OKX](https://okx.com/)
-- [X] [Bybit](https://bybit.com/)
+- [X] [OKX](https://okx.com/).
 
 Please make sure to read the [exchange specific notes](exchanges.md), as well as the [trading with leverage](leverage.md) documentation before diving in.
 
@@ -63,10 +62,6 @@ Exchanges confirmed working by the community:
 - [X] [Bitvavo](https://bitvavo.com/)
 - [X] [Kucoin](https://www.kucoin.com/)
 
-## Community showcase
-
---8<-- "includes/showcase.md"
-
 ## Requirements
 
 ### Hardware requirements
@@ -83,7 +78,7 @@ To run this bot we recommend you a linux cloud instance with a minimum of:
 
 Alternatively
 
-- Python 3.9+
+- Python 3.8+
 - pip (pip3)
 - git
 - TA-Lib

docs/installation.md

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ The easiest way to install and run Freqtrade is to clone the bot Github reposito
     The `stable` branch contains the code of the last release (done usually once per month on an approximately one week old snapshot of the `develop` branch to prevent packaging bugs, so potentially it's more stable).
 
 !!! Note
-    Python3.9 or higher and the corresponding `pip` are assumed to be available. The install-script will warn you and stop if that's not the case. `git` is also needed to clone the Freqtrade repository.  
+    Python3.8 or higher and the corresponding `pip` are assumed to be available. The install-script will warn you and stop if that's not the case. `git` is also needed to clone the Freqtrade repository.  
     Also, python headers (`python<yourversion>-dev` / `python<yourversion>-devel`) must be available for the installation to complete successfully.
 
 !!! Warning "Up-to-date clock"
@@ -42,11 +42,11 @@ These requirements apply to both [Script Installation](#script-installation) and
 
 ### Install guide
 
-* [Python >= 3.9](http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/starting/installation/)
+* [Python >= 3.8.x](http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/starting/installation/)
 * [pip](https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/)
 * [git](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git)
 * [virtualenv](https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/stable/installation.html) (Recommended)
-* [TA-Lib](https://ta-lib.github.io/ta-lib-python/) (install instructions [below](#install-ta-lib))
+* [TA-Lib](https://mrjbq7.github.io/ta-lib/install.html) (install instructions [below](#install-ta-lib))
 
 ### Install code
 
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ We've included/collected install instructions for Ubuntu, MacOS, and Windows. Th
 OS Specific steps are listed first, the [Common](#common) section below is necessary for all systems.
 
 !!! Note
-    Python3.9 or higher and the corresponding pip are assumed to be available.
+    Python3.8 or higher and the corresponding pip are assumed to be available.
 
 === "Debian/Ubuntu"
     #### Install necessary dependencies
@@ -143,11 +143,11 @@ If you are on Debian, Ubuntu or MacOS, freqtrade provides the script to install
 
 ### Activate your virtual environment
 
-Each time you open a new terminal, you must run `source .venv/bin/activate` to activate your virtual environment.
+Each time you open a new terminal, you must run `source .env/bin/activate` to activate your virtual environment.
 
 ```bash
-# activate virtual environment
-source ./.venv/bin/activate
+# then activate your .env
+source ./.env/bin/activate
 ```
 
 ### Congratulations
@@ -169,10 +169,10 @@ You can as well update, configure and reset the codebase of your bot with `./scr
 ** --install **
 
 With this option, the script will install the bot and most dependencies:
-You will need to have git and python3.9+ installed beforehand for this to work.
+You will need to have git and python3.8+ installed beforehand for this to work.
 
 * Mandatory software as: `ta-lib`
-* Setup your virtualenv under `.venv/`
+* Setup your virtualenv under `.env/`
 
 This option is a combination of installation tasks and `--reset`
 
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ sudo ./build_helpers/install_ta-lib.sh
 
 ##### TA-Lib manual installation
 
-[Official installation guide](https://ta-lib.github.io/ta-lib-python/install.html)
+Official webpage: https://mrjbq7.github.io/ta-lib/install.html
 
 ```bash
 wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ta-lib/ta-lib-0.4.0-src.tar.gz
@@ -225,18 +225,17 @@ rm -rf ./ta-lib*
 You will run freqtrade in separated `virtual environment`
 
 ```bash
-# create virtualenv in directory /freqtrade/.venv
-python3 -m venv .venv
+# create virtualenv in directory /freqtrade/.env
+python3 -m venv .env
 
 # run virtualenv
-source .venv/bin/activate
+source .env/bin/activate
 ```
 
 #### Install python dependencies
 
 ```bash
 python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
-python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
 python3 -m pip install -e .
 ```
 
@@ -285,8 +284,10 @@ cd freqtrade
 
 #### Freqtrade install: Conda Environment
 
+Prepare conda-freqtrade environment, using file `environment.yml`, which exist in main freqtrade directory
+
 ```bash
-conda create --name freqtrade python=3.11
+conda env create -n freqtrade-conda -f environment.yml
 ```
 
 !!! Note "Creating Conda Environment"
@@ -295,9 +296,12 @@ conda create --name freqtrade python=3.11
     ```bash
     # choose your own packages
     conda env create -n [name of the environment] [python version] [packages]
+
+    # point to file with packages
+    conda env create -n [name of the environment] -f [file]
     ```
 
-#### Enter/exit freqtrade environment
+#### Enter/exit freqtrade-conda environment
 
 To check available environments, type
 
@@ -309,7 +313,7 @@ Enter installed environment
 
 ```bash
 # enter conda environment
-conda activate freqtrade
+conda activate freqtrade-conda
 
 # exit conda environment - don't do it now
 conda deactivate
@@ -319,7 +323,6 @@ Install last python dependencies with pip
 
 ```bash
 python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
-python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
 python3 -m pip install -e .
 ```
 
@@ -327,7 +330,7 @@ Patch conda libta-lib (Linux only)
 
 ```bash
 # Ensure that the environment is active!
-conda activate freqtrade
+conda activate freqtrade-conda
 
 cd build_helpers
 bash install_ta-lib.sh ${CONDA_PREFIX} nosudo
@@ -346,8 +349,8 @@ conda env list
 # activate base environment
 conda activate
 
-# activate freqtrade environment
-conda activate freqtrade
+# activate freqtrade-conda environment
+conda activate freqtrade-conda
 
 #deactivate any conda environments
 conda deactivate                              
@@ -383,7 +386,7 @@ You've made it this far, so you have successfully installed freqtrade.
 freqtrade create-userdir --userdir user_data
 
 # Step 2 - Create a new configuration file
-freqtrade new-config --config user_data/config.json
+freqtrade new-config --config config.json
 ```
 
 You are ready to run, read [Bot Configuration](configuration.md), remember to start with `dry_run: True` and verify that everything is working.
@@ -393,7 +396,7 @@ To learn how to setup your configuration, please refer to the [Bot Configuration
 ### Start the Bot
 
 ```bash
-freqtrade trade --config user_data/config.json --strategy SampleStrategy
+freqtrade trade --config config.json --strategy SampleStrategy
 ```
 
 !!! Warning
@@ -411,8 +414,8 @@ If you used (1)`Script` or (2)`Manual` installation, you need to run the bot in
 # if:
 bash: freqtrade: command not found
 
-# then activate your virtual environment
-source ./.venv/bin/activate
+# then activate your .env
+source ./.env/bin/activate
 ```
 
 ### MacOS installation error

docs/leverage.md

@@ -64,9 +64,11 @@ You will also have to pick a "margin mode" (explanation below) - with freqtrade
 
 ##### Pair namings
 
-Freqtrade follows the [ccxt naming conventions for futures](https://docs.ccxt.com/#/README?id=perpetual-swap-perpetual-future).
+Freqtrade follows the [ccxt naming conventions for futures](https://docs.ccxt.com/en/latest/manual.html?#perpetual-swap-perpetual-future).
 A futures pair will therefore have the naming of `base/quote:settle` (e.g. `ETH/USDT:USDT`).
 
+Binance is currently still an exception to this naming scheme, where pairs are named `ETH/USDT` also for futures markets, but will be aligned as soon as CCXT is ready.
+
 ### Margin mode
 
 On top of `trading_mode` - you will also have to configure your `margin_mode`.
@@ -90,8 +92,6 @@ One account is used to share collateral between markets (trading pairs). Margin
 "margin_mode": "cross"
 ```
 
-Please read the [exchange specific notes](exchanges.md) for exchanges that support this mode and how they differ.
-
 ## Set leverage to use
 
 Different strategies and risk profiles will require different levels of leverage.

docs/lookahead-analysis.md

@@ -1,103 +0,0 @@
-# Lookahead analysis
-
-This page explains how to validate your strategy in terms of look ahead bias.
-
-Checking look ahead bias is the bane of any strategy since it is sometimes very easy to introduce backtest bias -
-but very hard to detect.
-
-Backtesting initializes all timestamps at once and calculates all indicators in the beginning.
-This means that if your indicators or entry/exit signals could look into future candles and falsify your backtest.
-
-Lookahead-analysis requires historic data to be available.
-To learn how to get data for the pairs and exchange you're interested in,
-head over to the [Data Downloading](data-download.md) section of the documentation.
-
-This command is built upon backtesting since it internally chains backtests and pokes at the strategy to provoke it to show look ahead bias.
-This is done by not looking at the strategy itself - but at the results it returned.
-The results are things like changed indicator-values and moved entries/exits compared to the full backtest.
-
-You can use commands of [Backtesting](backtesting.md).
-It also supports the lookahead-analysis of freqai strategies.
-
-- `--cache` is forced to "none".
-- `--max-open-trades` is forced to be at least equal to the number of pairs.
-- `--dry-run-wallet` is forced to be basically infinite (1 billion).
-- `--stake-amount` is forced to be a static 10000 (10k).
-- `--enable-protections` is forced to be off.
-
-Those are set to avoid users accidentally generating false positives.
-
-## Lookahead-analysis command reference
-
-```
-usage: freqtrade lookahead-analysis [-h] [-v] [--logfile FILE] [-V] [-c PATH]
-                                    [-d PATH] [--userdir PATH] [-s NAME]
-                                    [--strategy-path PATH]
-                                    [--recursive-strategy-search]
-                                    [--freqaimodel NAME]
-                                    [--freqaimodel-path PATH] [-i TIMEFRAME]
-                                    [--timerange TIMERANGE]
-                                    [--data-format-ohlcv {json,jsongz,hdf5,feather,parquet}]
-                                    [--max-open-trades INT]
-                                    [--stake-amount STAKE_AMOUNT]
-                                    [--fee FLOAT] [-p PAIRS [PAIRS ...]]
-                                    [--dry-run-wallet DRY_RUN_WALLET]
-                                    [--timeframe-detail TIMEFRAME_DETAIL]
-                                    [--strategy-list STRATEGY_LIST [STRATEGY_LIST ...]]
-                                    [--export {none,trades,signals}]
-                                    [--export-filename PATH]
-                                    [--breakdown {day,week,month} [{day,week,month} ...]]
-                                    [--cache {none,day,week,month}]
-                                    [--freqai-backtest-live-models]
-                                    [--minimum-trade-amount INT]
-                                    [--targeted-trade-amount INT]
-                                    [--lookahead-analysis-exportfilename LOOKAHEAD_ANALYSIS_EXPORTFILENAME]
-
-options:
-  --minimum-trade-amount INT
-                        Minimum trade amount for lookahead-analysis
-  --targeted-trade-amount INT
-                        Targeted trade amount for lookahead analysis
-  --lookahead-analysis-exportfilename LOOKAHEAD_ANALYSIS_EXPORTFILENAME
-                        Use this csv-filename to store lookahead-analysis-
-                        results
-```
-
-!!! Note ""
-    The above Output was reduced to options `lookahead-analysis` adds on top of regular backtesting commands.
-
-### Summary
-
-Checks a given strategy for look ahead bias via lookahead-analysis
-Look ahead bias means that the backtest uses data from future candles thereby not making it viable beyond backtesting
-and producing false hopes for the one backtesting.
-
-### Introduction
-
-Many strategies - without the programmer knowing - have fallen prey to look ahead bias.
-
-Any backtest will populate the full dataframe including all time stamps at the beginning.
-If the programmer is not careful or oblivious how things work internally
-(which sometimes can be really hard to find out) then it will just look into the future making the strategy amazing
-but not realistic.
-
-This command is made to try to verify the validity in the form of the aforementioned look ahead bias.
-
-### How does the command work?
-
-It will start with a backtest of all pairs to generate a baseline for indicators and entries/exits.
-After the backtest ran, it will look if the `minimum-trade-amount` is met
-and if not cancel the lookahead-analysis for this strategy.
-
-After setting the baseline it will then do additional runs for every entry and exit separately.
-When a verification-backtest is done, it will compare the indicators as the signal (either entry or exit) and report the bias.
-After all signals have been verified or falsified a result-table will be generated for the user to see.
-
-### Caveats
-
-- `lookahead-analysis` can only verify / falsify the trades it calculated and verified.
-If the strategy has many different signals / signal types, it's up to you to select appropriate parameters to ensure that all signals have triggered at least once. Not triggered signals will not have been verified.
-This could lead to a false-negative (the strategy will then be reported as non-biased).
-- `lookahead-analysis` has access to everything that backtesting has too.
-Please don't provoke any configs like enabling position stacking.
-If you decide to do so, then make doubly sure that you won't ever run out of `max_open_trades` amount and neither leftover money in your wallet.

docs/overrides/main.html

@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@
   {% endif %}
   <div class="md-sidebar md-sidebar--primary" data-md-component="sidebar" data-md-type="navigation" {{ hidden }}>
     <div class="md-sidebar__scrollwrap">
+      <div id="widget-wrapper">
+
+      </div>
       <div class="md-sidebar__inner">
         {% include "partials/nav.html" %}
       </div>
@@ -41,4 +44,25 @@
     <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.min.js"
       integrity="sha256-CSXorXvZcTkaix6Yvo6HppcZGetbYMGWSFlBw8HfCJo=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
 
+    <!-- Load binance SDK -->
+    <script async defer src="https://public.bnbstatic.com/static/js/broker-sdk/broker-sdk@1.0.0.min.js"></script>
+
+    <script>
+      window.onload = function () {
+        var sidebar = document.getElementById('widget-wrapper')
+        var newDiv = document.createElement("div");
+        newDiv.id = "widget";
+        try {
+          sidebar.prepend(newDiv);
+
+          window.binanceBrokerPortalSdk.initBrokerSDK('#widget', {
+            apiHost: 'https://www.binance.com',
+            brokerId: 'R4BD3S82',
+            slideTime: 4e4,
+          });
+        } catch(err) {
+          console.log(err)
+        }
+      }
+    </script>
 {% endblock %}

docs/producer-consumer.md

@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ Enable subscribing to an instance by adding the `external_message_consumer` sect
                 "name": "default", // This can be any name you'd like, default is "default"
                 "host": "127.0.0.1", // The host from your producer's api_server config
                 "port": 8080, // The port from your producer's api_server config
-                "secure": false, // Use a secure websockets connection, default false
                 "ws_token": "sercet_Ws_t0ken" // The ws_token from your producer's api_server config
             }
         ],
@@ -42,14 +41,13 @@ Enable subscribing to an instance by adding the `external_message_consumer` sect
 | `producers` | **Required.** List of producers <br> **Datatype:** Array.
 | `producers.name` | **Required.** Name of this producer. This name must be used in calls to `get_producer_pairs()` and `get_producer_df()` if more than one producer is used.<br> **Datatype:** string
 | `producers.host` | **Required.** The hostname or IP address from your producer.<br> **Datatype:** string
-| `producers.port` | **Required.** The port matching the above host.<br>*Defaults to `8080`.*<br> **Datatype:** Integer
-| `producers.secure` | **Optional.**  Use ssl in websockets connection. Default False.<br> **Datatype:** string
+| `producers.port` | **Required.** The port matching the above host.<br> **Datatype:** string
 | `producers.ws_token` | **Required.**  `ws_token` as configured on the producer.<br> **Datatype:** string
 | | **Optional settings**
 | `wait_timeout` | Timeout until we ping again if no message is received. <br>*Defaults to `300`.*<br> **Datatype:** Integer - in seconds.
-| `ping_timeout` | Ping timeout <br>*Defaults to `10`.*<br> **Datatype:** Integer - in seconds.
+| `wait_timeout` | Ping timeout <br>*Defaults to `10`.*<br> **Datatype:** Integer - in seconds.
 | `sleep_time` | Sleep time before retrying to connect.<br>*Defaults to `10`.*<br> **Datatype:** Integer - in seconds.
-| `remove_entry_exit_signals` | Remove signal columns from the dataframe (set them to 0) on dataframe receipt.<br>*Defaults to `false`.*<br> **Datatype:** Boolean.
+| `remove_entry_exit_signals` | Remove signal columns from the dataframe (set them to 0) on dataframe receipt.<br>*Defaults to `10`.*<br> **Datatype:** Integer - in seconds.
 | `message_size_limit` | Size limit per message<br>*Defaults to `8`.*<br> **Datatype:** Integer - Megabytes.
 
 Instead of (or as well as) calculating indicators in `populate_indicators()` the follower instance listens on the connection to a producer instance's messages (or multiple producer instances in advanced configurations) and requests the producer's most recently analyzed dataframes for each pair in the active whitelist.

docs/recursive-analysis.md

@@ -1,119 +0,0 @@
-# Recursive analysis
-
-This page explains how to validate your strategy for inaccuracies due to recursive issues with certain indicators.
-
-A recursive formula defines any term of a sequence relative to its preceding term(s). An example of a recursive formula is a<sub>n</sub> = a<sub>n-1</sub> + b.
-
-Why does this matter for Freqtrade? In backtesting, the bot will get full data of the pairs according to the timerange specified. But in a dry/live run, the bot will be limited by the amount of data each exchanges gives.
-
-For example, to calculate a very basic indicator called `steps`, the first row's value is always 0, while the following rows' values are equal to the value of the previous row plus 1. If I were to calculate it using the latest 1000 candles, then the `steps` value of the first row is 0, and the `steps` value at the last closed candle is 999.
-
-What happens if the calculation is using only the latest 500 candles? Then instead of 999, the `steps` value at last closed candle is 499. The difference of the value means your backtest result can differ from your dry/live run result.
-
-The `recursive-analysis` command requires historic data to be available. To learn how to get data for the pairs and exchange you're interested in,
-head over to the [Data Downloading](data-download.md) section of the documentation.
-
-This command is built upon preparing different lengths of data and calculates indicators based on them.
-This does not backtest the strategy itself, but rather only calculates the indicators. After calculating the indicators of different startup candle values (`startup_candle_count`) are done, the values of last rows across all specified `startup_candle_count` are compared to see how much variance they show compared to the base calculation.
-
-Command settings:
-
-- Use the `-p` option to set your desired pair to analyze. Since we are only looking at indicator values, using more than one pair is redundant. Preferably use a pair with a relatively high price and at least moderate volatility, such as BTC or ETH, to avoid rounding issues that can make the results inaccurate. If no pair is set on the command, the pair used for this analysis is the first pair in the whitelist.
-- It is recommended to set a long timerange (at least 5000 candles) so that the initial indicators' calculation that is going to be used as a benchmark has very small or no recursive issues itself. For example, for a 5m timeframe, a timerange of 5000 candles would be equal to 18 days.
-- `--cache` is forced to "none" to avoid loading previous indicators calculation automatically.
-
-In addition to the recursive formula check, this command also carries out a simple lookahead bias check on the indicator values only. For a full lookahead check, use [Lookahead-analysis](lookahead-analysis.md).
-
-## Recursive-analysis command reference
-
-```
-usage: freqtrade recursive-analysis [-h] [-v] [--logfile FILE] [-V] [-c PATH]
-                                    [-d PATH] [--userdir PATH] [-s NAME]
-                                    [--strategy-path PATH]
-                                    [--recursive-strategy-search]
-                                    [--freqaimodel NAME]
-                                    [--freqaimodel-path PATH] [-i TIMEFRAME]
-                                    [--timerange TIMERANGE]
-                                    [--data-format-ohlcv {json,jsongz,hdf5,feather,parquet}]
-                                    [-p PAIR]
-                                    [--freqai-backtest-live-models]
-                                    [--startup-candle STARTUP_CANDLES [STARTUP_CANDLES ...]]
-
-optional arguments:
-  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
-  -i TIMEFRAME, --timeframe TIMEFRAME
-                        Specify timeframe (`1m`, `5m`, `30m`, `1h`, `1d`).
-  --data-format-ohlcv {json,jsongz,hdf5,feather,parquet}
-                        Storage format for downloaded candle (OHLCV) data.
-                        (default: `feather`).
-  -p PAIR, --pairs PAIR
-                        Limit command to this pair.
-  --startup-candle STARTUP_CANDLE [STARTUP_CANDLE ...]
-                        Provide a space-separated list of startup_candle_count to
-                        be checked. Default : `199 399 499 999 1999`.
-
-Common arguments:
-  -v, --verbose         Verbose mode (-vv for more, -vvv to get all messages).
-  --logfile FILE        Log to the file specified. Special values are:
-                        'syslog', 'journald'. See the documentation for more
-                        details.
-  -V, --version         show program's version number and exit
-  -c PATH, --config PATH
-                        Specify configuration file (default:
-                        `userdir/config.json` or `config.json` whichever
-                        exists). Multiple --config options may be used. Can be
-                        set to `-` to read config from stdin.
-  -d PATH, --datadir PATH
-                        Path to directory with historical backtesting data.
-  --userdir PATH, --user-data-dir PATH
-                        Path to userdata directory.
-
-Strategy arguments:
-  -s NAME, --strategy NAME
-                        Specify strategy class name which will be used by the
-                        bot.
-  --strategy-path PATH  Specify additional strategy lookup path.
-  --timerange TIMERANGE
-                        Specify what timerange of data to use.
-```
-
-### Why are odd-numbered default startup candles used?
-
-The default value for startup candles are odd numbers. When the bot fetches candle data from the exchange's API, the last candle is the one being checked by the bot and the rest of the data are the "startup candles".
-
-For example, Binance allows 1000 candles per API call. When the bot receives 1000 candles, the last candle is the "current candle", and the preceding 999 candles are the "startup candles". By setting the startup candle count as 1000 instead of 999, the bot will try to fetch 1001 candles instead. The exchange API will then send candle data in a paginated form, i.e. in case of the Binance API, this will be two groups- one of length 1000 and another of length 1. This results in the bot thinking the strategy needs 1001 candles of data, and so it will download 2000 candles worth of data instead, which means there will be 1 "current candle" and 1999 "startup candles".
-
-Furthermore, exchanges limit the number of consecutive bulk API calls, e.g. Binance allows 5 calls. In this case, only 5000 candles can be downloaded from Binance API without hitting the API rate limit, which means the max `startup_candle_count` you can have is 4999.
-
-Please note that this candle limit may be changed in the future by the exchanges without any prior notice.
-
-### How does the command work?
-
-- Firstly an initial indicator calculation is carried out using the supplied timerange to generate a benchmark for indicator values.
-- After setting the benchmark it will then carry out additional runs for each of the different startup candle count values.
-- The command will then compare the indicator values at the last candle rows and report the differences in a table.
-
-## Understanding the recursive-analysis output
-
-This is an example of an output results table where at least one indicator has a recursive formula issue:
-
-```
-| indicators   | 20      | 40      | 80     | 100    | 150     | 300     | 999    |
-|--------------+---------+---------+--------+--------+---------+---------+--------|
-| rsi_30       | nan%    | -6.025% | 0.612% | 0.828% | -0.140% | 0.000%  | 0.000% |
-| rsi_14       | 24.141% | -0.876% | 0.070% | 0.007% | -0.000% | -0.000% | -      |
-```
-
-The column headers indicate the different `startup_candle_count` used in the analysis. The values in the table indicate the variance of the calculated indicators compared to the benchmark value.
-
-`nan%` means the value of that indicator cannot be calculated due to lack of data. In this example, you cannot calculate RSI with length 30 with just 21 candles (1 current candle + 20 startup candles).
-
-Users should assess the table per indicator to decide if the specified `startup_candle_count` results in a sufficiently small variance so that the indicator does not have any effect on entries and/or exits.
-
-As such, aiming for absolute zero variance (shown by `-` value) might not be the best option, because some indicators might require you to use such a long `startup_candle_count` to have zero variance.
-
-## Caveats
-
-- `recursive-analysis` will only calculate and compare the indicator values at the last row. The output table reports the percentage differences between the different startup candle count calculations and the original benchmark calculation. Whether it has any actual impact on your entries and exits is not included.
-- The ideal scenario is that indicators will have no variance (or at least very close to 0%) despite the startup candle being varied. In reality, indicators such as EMA are using a recursive formula to calculate indicator values, so the goal is not necessarily to have zero percentage variance, but to have the variance low enough (and therefore `startup_candle_count` high enough) that the recursion inherent in the indicator will not have any real impact on trading decisions.
-- `recursive-analysis` will only run calculations on `populate_indicators` and `@informative` decorator(s). If you put any indicator calculation on `populate_entry_trend` or `populate_exit_trend`, it won't be calculated.

docs/requirements-docs.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-markdown==3.6
-mkdocs==1.5.3
-mkdocs-material==9.5.15
+markdown==3.3.7
+mkdocs==1.4.0
+mkdocs-material==8.5.6
 mdx_truly_sane_lists==1.3
-pymdown-extensions==10.7.1
-jinja2==3.1.3
+pymdown-extensions==9.6
+jinja2==3.1.2

docs/rest-api.md

@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ This same command can also be used to update freqUI, should there be a new relea
 
 Once the bot is started in trade / dry-run mode (with `freqtrade trade`) - the UI will be available under the configured port below (usually `http://127.0.0.1:8080`).
 
+!!! info "Alpha release"
+    FreqUI is still considered an alpha release - if you encounter bugs or inconsistencies please open a [FreqUI issue](https://github.com/freqtrade/frequi/issues/new/choose).
+
 !!! Note "developers"
     Developers should not use this method, but instead use the method described in the [freqUI repository](https://github.com/freqtrade/frequi) to get the source-code of freqUI.
 
@@ -95,13 +98,11 @@ Make sure that the following 2 lines are available in your docker-compose file:
 
 ### Consuming the API
 
-You can consume the API by using `freqtrade-client` (also available as `scripts/rest_client.py`).
-This command can be installed independent of the bot by using `pip install freqtrade-client`.
-
-This module is designed to be lightweight, and only depends on the `requests` and `python-rapidjson` modules, skipping all heavy dependencies freqtrade otherwise needs.
+You can consume the API by using the script `scripts/rest_client.py`.
+The client script only requires the `requests` module, so Freqtrade does not need to be installed on the system.
 
 ``` bash
-freqtrade-client <command> [optional parameters]
+python3 scripts/rest_client.py <command> [optional parameters]
 ```
 
 By default, the script assumes `127.0.0.1` (localhost) and port `8080` to be used, however you can specify a configuration file to override this behaviour.
@@ -122,27 +123,9 @@ By default, the script assumes `127.0.0.1` (localhost) and port `8080` to be use
 ```
 
 ``` bash
-freqtrade-client --config rest_config.json <command> [optional parameters]
+python3 scripts/rest_client.py --config rest_config.json <command> [optional parameters]
 ```
 
-??? Note "Programmatic use"
-    The `freqtrade-client` package (installable independent of freqtrade) can be used in your own scripts to interact with the freqtrade API.
-    to do so, please use the following:
-
-    ``` python
-    from freqtrade_client import FtRestClient
-    
-
-    client = FtRestClient(server_url, username, password)
-
-    # Get the status of the bot
-    ping = client.ping()
-    print(ping)
-    # ... 
-    ```
-
-    For a full list of available commands, please refer to the list below.
-
 ### Available endpoints
 
 |  Command | Description |
@@ -154,16 +137,11 @@ freqtrade-client --config rest_config.json <command> [optional parameters]
 | `reload_config` | Reloads the configuration file.
 | `trades` | List last trades. Limited to 500 trades per call.
 | `trade/<tradeid>` | Get specific trade.
-| `trades/<tradeid>` | DELETE - Remove trade from the database. Tries to close open orders. Requires manual handling of this trade on the exchange.
-| `trades/<tradeid>/open-order` | DELETE - Cancel open order for this trade.
-| `trades/<tradeid>/reload` | GET - Reload a trade from the Exchange. Only works in live, and can potentially help recover a trade that was manually sold on the exchange.
+| `delete_trade <trade_id>` | Remove trade from the database. Tries to close open orders. Requires manual handling of this trade on the exchange.
 | `show_config` | Shows part of the current configuration with relevant settings to operation.
 | `logs` | Shows last log messages.
 | `status` | Lists all open trades.
 | `count` | Displays number of trades used and available.
-| `entries [pair]` | Shows profit statistics for each enter tags for given pair (or all pairs if pair isn't given). Pair is optional.
-| `exits [pair]` | Shows profit statistics for each exit reasons for given pair (or all pairs if pair isn't given). Pair is optional.
-| `mix_tags [pair]` | Shows profit statistics for each combinations of enter tag + exit reasons for given pair (or all pairs if pair isn't given). Pair is optional.
 | `locks` | Displays currently locked pairs.
 | `delete_lock <lock_id>` | Deletes (disables) the lock by id.
 | `profit` | Display a summary of your profit/loss from close trades and some stats about your performance.
@@ -174,8 +152,6 @@ freqtrade-client --config rest_config.json <command> [optional parameters]
 | `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 (n defaults to 7).
-| `weekly <n>` | Shows profit or loss per week, over the last n days (n defaults to 4).
-| `monthly <n>` | Shows profit or loss per month, over the last n days (n defaults to 3).
 | `stats` | Display a summary of profit / loss reasons as well as average holding times.
 | `whitelist` | Show the current whitelist.
 | `blacklist [pair]` | Show the current blacklist, or adds a pair to the blacklist.
@@ -187,7 +163,7 @@ freqtrade-client --config rest_config.json <command> [optional parameters]
 | `strategy <strategy>` | Get specific Strategy content. **Alpha**
 | `available_pairs` | List available backtest data. **Alpha**
 | `version` | Show version.
-| `sysinfo` | Show information about the system load.
+| `sysinfo` | Show informations about the system load.
 | `health` | Show bot health (last bot loop).
 
 !!! Warning "Alpha status"
@@ -196,7 +172,7 @@ freqtrade-client --config rest_config.json <command> [optional parameters]
 Possible commands can be listed from the rest-client script using the `help` command.
 
 ``` bash
-freqtrade-client help
+python3 scripts/rest_client.py help
 ```
 
 ``` output
@@ -216,11 +192,6 @@ blacklist
 
         :param add: List of coins to add (example: "BNB/BTC")
 
-cancel_open_order
-	Cancel open order for trade.
-
-        :param trade_id: Cancels open orders for this trade.
-
 count
 	Return the amount of open trades.
 
@@ -303,6 +274,7 @@ reload_config
 	Reload configuration.
 
 show_config
+
         Returns part of the configuration, relevant for trading operations.
 
 start
@@ -348,7 +320,6 @@ version
 whitelist
 	Show the current whitelist.
 
-
 ```
 
 ### Message WebSocket
@@ -418,44 +389,6 @@ Now anytime those types of RPC messages are sent in the bot, you will receive th
 }
 ```
 
-#### Reverse Proxy setup
-
-When using [Nginx](https://nginx.org/en/docs/), the following configuration is required for WebSockets to work (Note this configuration is incomplete, it's missing some information and can not be used as is):
-
-Please make sure to replace `<freqtrade_listen_ip>` (and the subsequent port) with the IP and Port matching your configuration/setup.
-
-```
-http {
-    map $http_upgrade $connection_upgrade {
-        default upgrade;
-        '' close;
-    }
-
-    #...
-
-    server {
-        #...
-
-        location / {
-            proxy_http_version 1.1;
-            proxy_pass http://<freqtrade_listen_ip>:8080;
-            proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
-            proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade;
-            proxy_set_header Host $host;
-        }
-    }
-}
-```
-
-To properly configure your reverse proxy (securely), please consult it's documentation for proxying websockets.
-
-- **Traefik**: Traefik supports websockets out of the box, see the [documentation](https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/)
-- **Caddy**: Caddy v2 supports websockets out of the box, see the [documentation](https://caddyserver.com/docs/v2-upgrade#proxy)
-
-!!! Tip "SSL certificates"
-    You can use tools like certbot to setup ssl certificates to access your bot's UI through encrypted connection by using any fo the above reverse proxies.
-    While this will protect your data in transit, we do not recommend to run the freqtrade API outside of your private network (VPN, SSH tunnel).
-
 ### OpenAPI interface
 
 To enable the builtin openAPI interface (Swagger UI), specify `"enable_openapi": true` in the api_server configuration.

docs/sandbox-testing.md

@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+# Sandbox API testing
+
+Some exchanges provide sandboxes or testbeds for risk-free testing, while running the bot against a real exchange.
+With some configuration, freqtrade (in combination with ccxt) provides access to these.
+
+This document is an overview to configure Freqtrade to be used with sandboxes.
+This can be useful to developers and trader alike.
+
+!!! Warning
+    Sandboxes usually have very low volume, and either a very wide spread, or no orders available at all.
+    Therefore, sandboxes will usually not do a good job of showing you how a strategy would work in real trading.
+
+## Exchanges known to have a sandbox / testnet
+
+* [binance](https://testnet.binance.vision/)
+* [coinbasepro](https://public.sandbox.pro.coinbase.com)
+* [gemini](https://exchange.sandbox.gemini.com/)
+* [huobipro](https://www.testnet.huobi.pro/)
+* [kucoin](https://sandbox.kucoin.com/)
+* [phemex](https://testnet.phemex.com/) 
+
+!!! Note
+    We did not test correct functioning of all of the above testnets. Please report your experiences with each sandbox.
+
+---
+
+## Configure a Sandbox account
+
+When testing your API connectivity, make sure to use the appropriate sandbox / testnet URL.
+
+In general, you should follow these steps to enable an exchange's sandbox:
+
+* Figure out if an exchange has a sandbox (most likely by using google or the exchange's support documents)
+* Create a sandbox account (often the sandbox-account requires separate registration)
+* [Add some test assets to account](#add-test-funds)
+* Create API keys
+
+### Add test funds
+
+Usually, sandbox exchanges allow depositing funds directly via web-interface.
+You should make sure to have a realistic amount of funds available to your test-account, so results are representable of your real account funds.
+
+!!! Warning
+    Test exchanges will **NEVER** require your real credit card or banking details!
+
+## Configure freqtrade to use a exchange's sandbox
+
+### Sandbox URLs
+
+Freqtrade makes use of CCXT which in turn provides a list of URLs to Freqtrade.
+These include `['test']` and `['api']`.
+
+* `[Test]` if available will point to an Exchanges sandbox.
+* `[Api]` normally used, and resolves to live API target on the exchange.
+
+To make use of sandbox / test add "sandbox": true, to your config.json
+
+```json
+  "exchange": {
+        "name": "coinbasepro",
+        "sandbox": true,
+        "key": "5wowfxemogxeowo;heiohgmd",
+        "secret": "/ZMH1P62rCVmwefewrgcewX8nh4gob+lywxfwfxwwfxwfNsH1ySgvWCUR/w==",
+        "password": "1bkjfkhfhfu6sr",
+        "outdated_offset": 5
+        "pair_whitelist": [
+            "BTC/USD"
+        ]
+  },
+  "datadir": "user_data/data/coinbasepro_sandbox"
+```
+
+Also the following information:
+
+* api-key (created for the sandbox webpage)
+* api-secret (noted earlier)
+* password (the passphrase - noted earlier)
+
+!!! Tip "Different data directory"
+    We also recommend to set `datadir` to something identifying downloaded data as sandbox data, to avoid having sandbox data mixed with data from the real exchange.
+    This can be done by adding the `"datadir"` key to the configuration.
+    Now, whenever you use this configuration, your data directory will be set to this directory.
+
+---
+
+## You should now be ready to test your sandbox
+
+Ensure Freqtrade logs show the sandbox URL, and trades made are shown in sandbox. Also make sure to select a pair which shows at least some decent value (which very often is BTC/<somestablecoin>).
+
+## Common problems with sandbox exchanges
+
+Sandbox exchange instances often have very low volume, which can cause some problems which usually are not seen on a real exchange instance.
+
+### Old Candles problem
+
+Since Sandboxes often have low volume, candles can be quite old and show no volume.
+To disable the error "Outdated history for pair ...", best increase the parameter `"outdated_offset"` to a number that seems realistic for the sandbox you're using.
+
+### Unfilled orders
+
+Sandboxes often have very low volumes - which means that many trades can go unfilled, or can go unfilled for a very long time.
+
+To mitigate this, you can try to match the first order on the opposite orderbook side using the following configuration:
+
+``` jsonc
+  "order_types": {
+    "entry": "limit",
+    "exit": "limit"
+    // ...
+  },
+  "entry_pricing": {
+    "price_side": "other",
+    // ...
+  },
+  "exit_pricing":{
+    "price_side": "other",
+    // ...
+  },
+  ```
+
+  The configuration is similar to the suggested configuration for market orders - however by using limit-orders you can avoid moving the price too much, and you can set the worst price you might get.

docs/sql_cheatsheet.md

@@ -13,12 +13,12 @@ Feel free to use a visual Database editor like SqliteBrowser if you feel more co
 sudo apt-get install sqlite3
 ```
 
-### Using sqlite3 via docker
+### Using sqlite3 via docker-compose
 
 The freqtrade docker image does contain sqlite3, so you can edit the database without having to install anything on the host system.
 
 ``` bash
-docker compose exec freqtrade /bin/bash
+docker-compose exec freqtrade /bin/bash
 sqlite3 <database-file>.sqlite
 ```
 
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ Freqtrade does not depend or install any additional database driver. Please refe
 The following systems have been tested and are known to work with freqtrade:
 
 * sqlite (default)
-* PostgreSQL
+* PostgreSQL)
 * MariaDB
 
 !!! Warning

docs/stoploss.md

@@ -23,22 +23,10 @@ These modes can be configured with these values:
     'stoploss_on_exchange_limit_ratio': 0.99
 ```
 
-Stoploss on exchange is only supported for the following exchanges, and not all exchanges support both stop-limit and stop-market.
-The Order-type will be ignored if only one mode is available.
-
-| Exchange | stop-loss type |
-|----------|-------------|
-| Binance  | limit |
-| Binance Futures  | market, limit |
-| HTX (former Huobi)    | limit |
-| kraken   | market, limit |
-| Gate     | limit |
-| Okx      | limit |
-| Kucoin   | stop-limit, stop-market|
-
-!!! Note "Tight stoploss"
-    <ins>Do not set too low/tight stoploss value when using stop loss on exchange!</ins>  
-    If set to low/tight you will have greater risk of missing fill on the order and stoploss will not work.
+!!! Note
+    Stoploss on exchange is only supported for Binance (stop-loss-limit), Huobi (stop-limit), Kraken (stop-loss-market, stop-loss-limit), FTX (stop limit and stop-market) Gateio (stop-limit), and Kucoin (stop-limit and stop-market) as of now.  
+    <ins>Do not set too low/tight stoploss value if using stop loss on exchange!</ins>  
+    If set to low/tight then you have greater risk of missing fill on the order and stoploss will not work.
 
 ### stoploss_on_exchange and stoploss_on_exchange_limit_ratio
 
@@ -64,18 +52,6 @@ The bot cannot do these every 5 seconds (at each iteration), otherwise it would
 So this parameter will tell the bot how often it should update the stoploss order. The default value is 60 (1 minute).
 This same logic will reapply a stoploss order on the exchange should you cancel it accidentally.
 
-### stoploss_price_type
-
-!!! Warning "Only applies to futures"
-    `stoploss_price_type` only applies to futures markets (on exchanges where it's available).
-    Freqtrade will perform a validation of this setting on startup, failing to start if an invalid setting for your exchange has been selected.
-    Supported price types are gonna differs between each exchanges. Please check with your exchange on which price types it supports.
-
-Stoploss on exchange on futures markets can trigger on different price types.
-The naming for these prices in exchange terminology often varies, but is usually something around "last" (or "contract price" ), "mark" and "index".
-
-Acceptable values for this setting are `"last"`, `"mark"` and `"index"` - which freqtrade will transfer automatically to the corresponding API type, and place the [stoploss on exchange](#stoploss_on_exchange-and-stoploss_on_exchange_limit_ratio) order correspondingly.
-
 ### force_exit
 
 `force_exit` is an optional value, which defaults to the same value as `exit` and is used when sending a `/forceexit` command from Telegram or from the Rest API.
@@ -111,7 +87,7 @@ At this stage the bot contains the following stoploss support modes:
 2. Trailing stop loss.
 3. Trailing stop loss, custom positive loss.
 4. Trailing stop loss only once the trade has reached a certain offset.
-5. [Custom stoploss function](strategy-callbacks.md#custom-stoploss)
+5. [Custom stoploss function](strategy-advanced.md#custom-stoploss)
 
 ### Static Stop Loss
 
@@ -209,6 +185,11 @@ You can also keep a static stoploss until the offset is reached, and then trail
 If `trailing_only_offset_is_reached = True` then the trailing stoploss is only activated once the offset is reached. Until then, the stoploss remains at the configured `stoploss`.
 This option can be used with or without `trailing_stop_positive`, but uses `trailing_stop_positive_offset` as offset.
 
+``` python
+    trailing_stop_positive_offset = 0.011
+    trailing_only_offset_is_reached = True
+```
+
 Configuration (offset is buy-price + 3%):
 
 ``` python

docs/strategy-advanced.md

@@ -1,139 +1,44 @@
 # Advanced Strategies
 
 This page explains some advanced concepts available for strategies.
-If you're just getting started, please familiarize yourself with the [Freqtrade basics](bot-basics.md) and methods described in [Strategy Customization](strategy-customization.md) first.
+If you're just getting started, please be familiar with the methods described in the [Strategy Customization](strategy-customization.md) documentation and with the [Freqtrade basics](bot-basics.md) first.
 
-The call sequence of the methods described here is covered under [bot execution logic](bot-basics.md#bot-execution-logic). Those docs are also helpful in deciding which method is most suitable for your customisation needs.
+[Freqtrade basics](bot-basics.md) describes in which sequence each method described below is called, which can be helpful to understand which method to use for your custom needs.
 
 !!! Note
-    Callback methods should *only* be implemented if a strategy uses them.
+    All callback methods described below should only be implemented in a strategy if they are actually used.
 
 !!! Tip
-    Start off with a strategy template containing all available callback methods by running `freqtrade new-strategy --strategy MyAwesomeStrategy --template advanced`
+    You can get a strategy template containing all below methods by running `freqtrade new-strategy --strategy MyAwesomeStrategy --template advanced`
 
-## Storing information (Persistent)
+## Storing information
 
-Freqtrade allows storing/retrieving user custom information associated with a specific trade in the database.
+Storing information can be accomplished by creating a new dictionary within the strategy class.
 
-Using a trade object, information can be stored using `trade.set_custom_data(key='my_key', value=my_value)` and retrieved using `trade.get_custom_data(key='my_key')`. Each data entry is associated with a trade and a user supplied key (of type `string`). This means that this can only be used in callbacks that also provide a trade object.
-
-For the data to be able to be stored within the database, freqtrade must serialized the data. This is done by converting the data to a JSON formatted string.
-Freqtrade will attempt to reverse this action on retrieval, so from a strategy perspective, this should not be relevant.
+The name of the variable can be chosen at will, but should be prefixed with `cust_` to avoid naming collisions with predefined strategy variables.
 
 ```python
-from freqtrade.persistence import Trade
-from datetime import timedelta
-
 class AwesomeStrategy(IStrategy):
+    # Create custom dictionary
+    custom_info = {}
 
-    def bot_loop_start(self, **kwargs) -> None:
-        for trade in Trade.get_open_order_trades():
-            fills = trade.select_filled_orders(trade.entry_side)
-            if trade.pair == 'ETH/USDT':
-                trade_entry_type = trade.get_custom_data(key='entry_type')
-                if trade_entry_type is None:
-                    trade_entry_type = 'breakout' if 'entry_1' in trade.enter_tag else 'dip'
-                elif fills > 1:
-                    trade_entry_type = 'buy_up'
-                trade.set_custom_data(key='entry_type', value=trade_entry_type)
-        return super().bot_loop_start(**kwargs)
+    def populate_indicators(self, dataframe: DataFrame, metadata: dict) -> DataFrame:
+        # Check if the entry already exists
+        if not metadata["pair"] in self.custom_info:
+            # Create empty entry for this pair
+            self.custom_info[metadata["pair"]] = {}
 
-    def adjust_entry_price(self, trade: Trade, order: Optional[Order], pair: str,
-                           current_time: datetime, proposed_rate: float, current_order_rate: float,
-                           entry_tag: Optional[str], side: str, **kwargs) -> float:
-        # Limit orders to use and follow SMA200 as price target for the first 10 minutes since entry trigger for BTC/USDT pair.
-        if (
-            pair == 'BTC/USDT' 
-            and entry_tag == 'long_sma200' 
-            and side == 'long' 
-            and (current_time - timedelta(minutes=10)) > trade.open_date_utc 
-            and order.filled == 0.0
-        ):
-            dataframe, _ = self.dp.get_analyzed_dataframe(pair=pair, timeframe=self.timeframe)
-            current_candle = dataframe.iloc[-1].squeeze()
-            # store information about entry adjustment
-            existing_count = trade.get_custom_data('num_entry_adjustments', default=0)
-            if not existing_count:
-                existing_count = 1
-            else:
-                existing_count += 1
-            trade.set_custom_data(key='num_entry_adjustments', value=existing_count)
-
-            # adjust order price
-            return current_candle['sma_200']
-
-        # default: maintain existing order
-        return current_order_rate
-
-    def custom_exit(self, pair: str, trade: Trade, current_time: datetime, current_rate: float, current_profit: float, **kwargs):
-
-        entry_adjustment_count = trade.get_custom_data(key='num_entry_adjustments')
-        trade_entry_type = trade.get_custom_data(key='entry_type')
-        if entry_adjustment_count is None:
-            if current_profit > 0.01 and (current_time - timedelta(minutes=100) > trade.open_date_utc):
-                return True, 'exit_1'
-        else
-            if entry_adjustment_count > 0 and if current_profit > 0.05:
-                return True, 'exit_2'
-            if trade_entry_type == 'breakout' and current_profit > 0.1:
-                return True, 'exit_3
-
-        return False, None
+        if "crosstime" in self.custom_info[metadata["pair"]]:
+            self.custom_info[metadata["pair"]]["crosstime"] += 1
+        else:
+            self.custom_info[metadata["pair"]]["crosstime"] = 1
 ```
 
-The above is a simple example - there are simpler ways to retrieve trade data like entry-adjustments.
+!!! Warning
+    The data is not persisted after a bot-restart (or config-reload). Also, the amount of data should be kept smallish (no DataFrames and such), otherwise the bot will start to consume a lot of memory and eventually run out of memory and crash.
 
 !!! Note
-    It is recommended that simple data types are used `[bool, int, float, str]` to ensure no issues when serializing the data that needs to be stored.
-    Storing big junks of data may lead to unintended side-effects, like a database becoming big (and as a consequence, also slow).
-
-!!! Warning "Non-serializable data"
-    If supplied data cannot be serialized a warning is logged and the entry for the specified `key` will contain `None` as data.
-
-??? Note "All attributes"
-    custom-data has the following accessors through the Trade object (assumed as `trade` below):
-
-    * `trade.get_custom_data(key='something', default=0)` - Returns the actual value given in the type provided.
-    * `trade.get_custom_data_entry(key='something')` - Returns the entry - including metadata. The value is accessible via `.value` property.
-    * `trade.set_custom_data(key='something', value={'some': 'value'})` - set or update the corresponding key for this trade. Value must be serializable - and we recommend to keep the stored data relatively small.
-
-    "value" can be any type (both in setting and receiving) - but must be json serializable.
-
-## Storing information (Non-Persistent)
-
-!!! Warning "Deprecated"
-    This method of storing information is deprecated and we do advise against using non-persistent storage.  
-    Please use [Persistent Storage](#storing-information-persistent) instead.
-
-    It's content has therefore been collapsed.
-
-??? Abstract "Storing information"
-    Storing information can be accomplished by creating a new dictionary within the strategy class.
-
-    The name of the variable can be chosen at will, but should be prefixed with `custom_` to avoid naming collisions with predefined strategy variables.
-
-    ```python
-    class AwesomeStrategy(IStrategy):
-        # Create custom dictionary
-        custom_info = {}
-
-        def populate_indicators(self, dataframe: DataFrame, metadata: dict) -> DataFrame:
-            # Check if the entry already exists
-            if not metadata["pair"] in self.custom_info:
-                # Create empty entry for this pair
-                self.custom_info[metadata["pair"]] = {}
-
-            if "crosstime" in self.custom_info[metadata["pair"]]:
-                self.custom_info[metadata["pair"]]["crosstime"] += 1
-            else:
-                self.custom_info[metadata["pair"]]["crosstime"] = 1
-    ```
-
-    !!! Warning
-        The data is not persisted after a bot-restart (or config-reload). Also, the amount of data should be kept smallish (no DataFrames and such), otherwise the bot will start to consume a lot of memory and eventually run out of memory and crash.
-
-    !!! Note
-        If the data is pair-specific, make sure to use pair as one of the keys in the dictionary.
+    If the data is pair-specific, make sure to use pair as one of the keys in the dictionary.
 
 ## Dataframe access
 
@@ -175,7 +80,7 @@ class AwesomeStrategy(IStrategy):
 ## Enter Tag
 
 When your strategy has multiple buy signals, you can name the signal that triggered.
-Then you can access your buy signal on `custom_exit`
+Then you can access you buy signal on `custom_exit`
 
 ```python
 def populate_entry_trend(self, dataframe: DataFrame, metadata: dict) -> DataFrame:
@@ -322,8 +227,8 @@ for val in self.buy_ema_short.range:
         f'ema_short_{val}': ta.EMA(dataframe, timeperiod=val)
     }))
 
-# Combine all dataframes, and reassign the original dataframe column
-dataframe = pd.concat(frames, axis=1)
+# Append columns to existing dataframe
+merged_frame = pd.concat(frames, axis=1)
 ```
 
 Freqtrade does however also counter this by running `dataframe.copy()` on the dataframe right after the `populate_indicators()` method - so performance implications of this should be low to non-existant.

docs/strategy-callbacks.md

@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ Currently available callbacks:
 * [`adjust_trade_position()`](#adjust-trade-position)
 * [`adjust_entry_price()`](#adjust-entry-price)
 * [`leverage()`](#leverage-callback)
-* [`order_filled()`](#order-filled-callback)
 
 !!! Tip "Callback calling sequence"
     You can find the callback calling sequence in [bot-basics](bot-basics.md#bot-execution-logic)
@@ -44,7 +43,7 @@ class AwesomeStrategy(IStrategy):
         if self.config['runmode'].value in ('live', 'dry_run'):
             # Assign this to the class by using self.*
             # can then be used by populate_* methods
-            self.custom_remote_data = requests.get('https://some_remote_source.example.com')
+            self.cust_remote_data = requests.get('https://some_remote_source.example.com')
 
 ```
 
@@ -52,8 +51,7 @@ During hyperopt, this runs only once at startup.
 
 ## Bot loop start
 
-A simple callback which is called once at the start of every bot throttling iteration in dry/live mode (roughly every 5
-seconds, unless configured differently) or once per candle in backtest/hyperopt mode.
+A simple callback which is called once at the start of every bot throttling iteration (roughly every 5 seconds, unless configured differently).
 This can be used to perform calculations which are pair independent (apply to all pairs), loading of external data, etc.
 
 ``` python
@@ -63,12 +61,11 @@ class AwesomeStrategy(IStrategy):
 
     # ... populate_* methods
 
-    def bot_loop_start(self, current_time: datetime, **kwargs) -> None:
+    def bot_loop_start(self, **kwargs) -> None:
         """
         Called at the start of the bot iteration (one loop).
         Might be used to perform pair-independent tasks
         (e.g. gather some remote resource for comparison)
-        :param current_time: datetime object, containing the current datetime
         :param **kwargs: Ensure to keep this here so updates to this won't break your strategy.
         """
         if self.config['runmode'].value in ('live', 'dry_run'):
@@ -162,34 +159,8 @@ The stoploss price can only ever move upwards - if the stoploss value returned f
 
 The method must return a stoploss value (float / number) as a percentage of the current price.
 E.g. If the `current_rate` is 200 USD, then returning `0.02` will set the stoploss price 2% lower, at 196 USD.
-During backtesting, `current_rate` (and `current_profit`) are provided against the candle's high (or low for short trades) - while the resulting stoploss is evaluated against the candle's low (or high for short trades).
 
 The absolute value of the return value is used (the sign is ignored), so returning `0.05` or `-0.05` have the same result, a stoploss 5% below the current price.
-Returning None will be interpreted as "no desire to change", and is the only safe way to return when you'd like to not modify the stoploss.
-
-Stoploss on exchange works similar to `trailing_stop`, and the stoploss on exchange is updated as configured in `stoploss_on_exchange_interval` ([More details about stoploss on exchange](stoploss.md#stop-loss-on-exchange-freqtrade)).
-
-!!! Note "Use of dates"
-    All time-based calculations should be done based on `current_time` - using `datetime.now()` or `datetime.utcnow()` is discouraged, as this will break backtesting support.
-
-!!! Tip "Trailing stoploss"
-    It's recommended to disable `trailing_stop` when using custom stoploss values. Both can work in tandem, but you might encounter the trailing stop to move the price higher while your custom function would not want this, causing conflicting behavior.
-
-### Adjust stoploss after position adjustments
-
-Depending on your strategy, you may encounter the need to adjust the stoploss in both directions after a [position adjustment](#adjust-trade-position).
-For this, freqtrade will make an additional call with `after_fill=True` after an order fills, which will allow the strategy to move the stoploss in any direction (also widening the gap between stoploss and current price, which is otherwise forbidden).
-
-!!! Note "backwards compatibility"
-    This call will only be made if the `after_fill` parameter is part of the function definition of your `custom_stoploss` function.
-    As such, this will not impact (and with that, surprise) existing, running strategies.
-
-### Custom stoploss examples
-
-The next section will show some examples on what's possible with the custom stoploss function.
-Of course, many more things are possible, and all examples can be combined at will.
-
-#### Trailing stop via custom stoploss
 
 To simulate a regular trailing stoploss of 4% (trailing 4% behind the maximum reached price) you would use the following very simple method:
 
@@ -205,8 +176,7 @@ class AwesomeStrategy(IStrategy):
     use_custom_stoploss = True
 
     def custom_stoploss(self, pair: str, trade: 'Trade', current_time: datetime,
-                        current_rate: float, current_profit: float, after_fill: bool, 
-                        **kwargs) -> Optional[float]:
+                        current_rate: float, current_profit: float, **kwargs) -> float:
         """
         Custom stoploss logic, returning the new distance relative to current_rate (as ratio).
         e.g. returning -0.05 would create a stoploss 5% below current_rate.
@@ -214,7 +184,7 @@ class AwesomeStrategy(IStrategy):
 
         For full documentation please go to https://www.freqtrade.io/en/latest/strategy-advanced/
 
-        When not implemented by a strategy, returns the initial stoploss value.
+        When not implemented by a strategy, returns the initial stoploss value
         Only called when use_custom_stoploss is set to True.
 
         :param pair: Pair that's currently analyzed
@@ -222,13 +192,25 @@ class AwesomeStrategy(IStrategy):
         :param current_time: datetime object, containing the current datetime
         :param current_rate: Rate, calculated based on pricing settings in exit_pricing.
         :param current_profit: Current profit (as ratio), calculated based on current_rate.
-        :param after_fill: True if the stoploss is called after the order was filled.
         :param **kwargs: Ensure to keep this here so updates to this won't break your strategy.
-        :return float: New stoploss value, relative to the current_rate
+        :return float: New stoploss value, relative to the current rate
         """
         return -0.04
 ```
 
+Stoploss on exchange works similar to `trailing_stop`, and the stoploss on exchange is updated as configured in `stoploss_on_exchange_interval` ([More details about stoploss on exchange](stoploss.md#stop-loss-on-exchange-freqtrade)).
+
+!!! Note "Use of dates"
+    All time-based calculations should be done based on `current_time` - using `datetime.now()` or `datetime.utcnow()` is discouraged, as this will break backtesting support.
+
+!!! Tip "Trailing stoploss"
+    It's recommended to disable `trailing_stop` when using custom stoploss values. Both can work in tandem, but you might encounter the trailing stop to move the price higher while your custom function would not want this, causing conflicting behavior.
+
+### Custom stoploss examples
+
+The next section will show some examples on what's possible with the custom stoploss function.
+Of course, many more things are possible, and all examples can be combined at will.
+
 #### Time based trailing stop
 
 Use the initial stoploss for the first 60 minutes, after this change to 10% trailing stoploss, and after 2 hours (120 minutes) we use a 5% trailing stoploss.
@@ -244,45 +226,14 @@ class AwesomeStrategy(IStrategy):
     use_custom_stoploss = True
 
     def custom_stoploss(self, pair: str, trade: 'Trade', current_time: datetime,
-                        current_rate: float, current_profit: float, after_fill: bool, 
-                        **kwargs) -> Optional[float]:
+                        current_rate: float, current_profit: float, **kwargs) -> float:
 
         # Make sure you have the longest interval first - these conditions are evaluated from top to bottom.
         if current_time - timedelta(minutes=120) > trade.open_date_utc:
             return -0.05
         elif current_time - timedelta(minutes=60) > trade.open_date_utc:
             return -0.10
-        return None
-```
-
-#### Time based trailing stop with after-fill adjustments
-
-Use the initial stoploss for the first 60 minutes, after this change to 10% trailing stoploss, and after 2 hours (120 minutes) we use a 5% trailing stoploss.
-If an additional order fills, set stoploss to -10% below the new `open_rate` ([Averaged across all entries](#position-adjust-calculations)).
-
-``` python
-from datetime import datetime, timedelta
-from freqtrade.persistence import Trade
-
-class AwesomeStrategy(IStrategy):
-
-    # ... populate_* methods
-
-    use_custom_stoploss = True
-
-    def custom_stoploss(self, pair: str, trade: 'Trade', current_time: datetime,
-                        current_rate: float, current_profit: float, after_fill: bool, 
-                        **kwargs) -> Optional[float]:
-
-        if after_fill: 
-            # After an additional order, start with a stoploss of 10% below the new open rate
-            return stoploss_from_open(0.10, current_profit, is_short=trade.is_short, leverage=trade.leverage)
-        # Make sure you have the longest interval first - these conditions are evaluated from top to bottom.
-        if current_time - timedelta(minutes=120) > trade.open_date_utc:
-            return -0.05
-        elif current_time - timedelta(minutes=60) > trade.open_date_utc:
-            return -0.10
-        return None
+        return 1
 ```
 
 #### Different stoploss per pair
@@ -301,8 +252,7 @@ class AwesomeStrategy(IStrategy):
     use_custom_stoploss = True
 
     def custom_stoploss(self, pair: str, trade: 'Trade', current_time: datetime,
-                        current_rate: float, current_profit: float, after_fill: bool,
-                        **kwargs) -> Optional[float]:
+                        current_rate: float, current_profit: float, **kwargs) -> float:
 
         if pair in ('ETH/BTC', 'XRP/BTC'):
             return -0.10
@@ -328,8 +278,7 @@ class AwesomeStrategy(IStrategy):
     use_custom_stoploss = True
 
     def custom_stoploss(self, pair: str, trade: 'Trade', current_time: datetime,
-                        current_rate: float, current_profit: float, after_fill: bool,
-                        **kwargs) -> Optional[float]:
+                        current_rate: float, current_profit: float, **kwargs) -> float:
 
         if current_profit < 0.04:
             return -1 # return a value bigger than the initial stoploss to keep using the initial stoploss
@@ -362,19 +311,18 @@ class AwesomeStrategy(IStrategy):
     use_custom_stoploss = True
 
     def custom_stoploss(self, pair: str, trade: 'Trade', current_time: datetime,
-                        current_rate: float, current_profit: float, after_fill: bool,
-                        **kwargs) -> Optional[float]:
+                        current_rate: float, current_profit: float, **kwargs) -> float:
 
         # evaluate highest to lowest, so that highest possible stop is used
         if current_profit > 0.40:
-            return stoploss_from_open(0.25, current_profit, is_short=trade.is_short, leverage=trade.leverage)
+            return stoploss_from_open(0.25, current_profit, is_short=trade.is_short)
         elif current_profit > 0.25:
-            return stoploss_from_open(0.15, current_profit, is_short=trade.is_short, leverage=trade.leverage)
+            return stoploss_from_open(0.15, current_profit, is_short=trade.is_short)
         elif current_profit > 0.20:
-            return stoploss_from_open(0.07, current_profit, is_short=trade.is_short, leverage=trade.leverage)
+            return stoploss_from_open(0.07, current_profit, is_short=trade.is_short)
 
         # return maximum stoploss value, keeping current stoploss price unchanged
-        return None
+        return 1
 ```
 
 #### Custom stoploss using an indicator from dataframe example
@@ -391,8 +339,7 @@ class AwesomeStrategy(IStrategy):
     use_custom_stoploss = True
 
     def custom_stoploss(self, pair: str, trade: 'Trade', current_time: datetime,
-                        current_rate: float, current_profit: float, after_fill: bool,
-                        **kwargs) -> Optional[float]:
+                        current_rate: float, current_profit: float, **kwargs) -> float:
 
         dataframe, _ = self.dp.get_analyzed_dataframe(pair, self.timeframe)
         last_candle = dataframe.iloc[-1].squeeze()
@@ -402,10 +349,10 @@ class AwesomeStrategy(IStrategy):
 
         # Convert absolute price to percentage relative to current_rate
         if stoploss_price < current_rate:
-            return stoploss_from_absolute(stoploss_price, current_rate, is_short=trade.is_short)
+            return (stoploss_price / current_rate) - 1
 
         # return maximum stoploss value, keeping current stoploss price unchanged
-        return None
+        return 1
 ```
 
 See [Dataframe access](strategy-advanced.md#dataframe-access) for more information about dataframe use in strategy callbacks.
@@ -414,89 +361,15 @@ See [Dataframe access](strategy-advanced.md#dataframe-access) for more informati
 
 #### Stoploss relative to open price
 
-Stoploss values returned from `custom_stoploss()` must specify a percentage relative to `current_rate`, but sometimes you may want to specify a stoploss relative to the _entry_ price instead.
-`stoploss_from_open()` is a helper function to calculate a stoploss value that can be returned from `custom_stoploss` which will be equivalent to the desired trade profit above the entry point.
+Stoploss values returned from `custom_stoploss()` always specify a percentage relative to `current_rate`. In order to set a stoploss relative to the *open* price, we need to use `current_profit` to calculate what percentage relative to the `current_rate` will give you the same result as if the percentage was specified from the open price.
 
-??? Example "Returning a stoploss relative to the open price from the custom stoploss function"
-
-    Say the open price was $100, and `current_price` is $121 (`current_profit` will be `0.21`).  
-
-    If we want a stop price at 7% above the open price we can call `stoploss_from_open(0.07, current_profit, False)` which will return `0.1157024793`.  11.57% below $121 is $107, which is the same as 7% above $100.
-
-    This function will consider leverage - so at 10x leverage, the actual stoploss would be 0.7% above $100 (0.7% * 10x = 7%).
-
-
-    ``` python
-
-    from datetime import datetime
-    from freqtrade.persistence import Trade
-    from freqtrade.strategy import IStrategy, stoploss_from_open
-
-    class AwesomeStrategy(IStrategy):
-
-        # ... populate_* methods
-
-        use_custom_stoploss = True
-
-        def custom_stoploss(self, pair: str, trade: 'Trade', current_time: datetime,
-                            current_rate: float, current_profit: float, after_fill: bool,
-                            **kwargs) -> Optional[float]:
-
-            # once the profit has risen above 10%, keep the stoploss at 7% above the open price
-            if current_profit > 0.10:
-                return stoploss_from_open(0.07, current_profit, is_short=trade.is_short, leverage=trade.leverage)
-
-            return 1
-
-    ```
-
-    Full examples can be found in the [Custom stoploss](strategy-advanced.md#custom-stoploss) section of the Documentation.
-
-!!! Note
-    Providing invalid input to `stoploss_from_open()` may produce "CustomStoploss function did not return valid stoploss" warnings.
-    This may happen if `current_profit` parameter is below specified `open_relative_stop`. Such situations may arise when closing trade
-    is blocked by `confirm_trade_exit()` method. Warnings can be solved by never blocking stop loss sells by checking `exit_reason` in
-    `confirm_trade_exit()`, or by using `return stoploss_from_open(...) or 1` idiom, which will request to not change stop loss when
-    `current_profit < open_relative_stop`.
+The helper function [`stoploss_from_open()`](strategy-customization.md#stoploss_from_open) can be used to convert from an open price relative stop, to a current price relative stop which can be returned from `custom_stoploss()`.
 
 #### Stoploss percentage from absolute price
 
 Stoploss values returned from `custom_stoploss()` always specify a percentage relative to `current_rate`. In order to set a stoploss at specified absolute price level, we need to use `stop_rate` to calculate what percentage relative to the `current_rate` will give you the same result as if the percentage was specified from the open price.
 
-The helper function `stoploss_from_absolute()` can be used to convert from an absolute price, to a current price relative stop which can be returned from `custom_stoploss()`.
-
-??? Example "Returning a stoploss using absolute price from the custom stoploss function"
-
-    If we want to trail a stop price at 2xATR below current price we can call `stoploss_from_absolute(current_rate + (side * candle['atr'] * 2), current_rate, is_short=trade.is_short, leverage=trade.leverage)`.
-    For futures, we need to adjust the direction (up or down), as well as adjust for leverage, since the [`custom_stoploss`](strategy-callbacks.md#custom-stoploss) callback  returns the ["risk for this trade"](stoploss.md#stoploss-and-leverage) - not the relative price movement.
-
-    ``` python
-
-    from datetime import datetime
-    from freqtrade.persistence import Trade
-    from freqtrade.strategy import IStrategy, stoploss_from_absolute, timeframe_to_prev_date
-
-    class AwesomeStrategy(IStrategy):
-
-        use_custom_stoploss = True
-
-        def populate_indicators_1h(self, dataframe: DataFrame, metadata: dict) -> DataFrame:
-            dataframe['atr'] = ta.ATR(dataframe, timeperiod=14)
-            return dataframe
-
-        def custom_stoploss(self, pair: str, trade: 'Trade', current_time: datetime,
-                            current_rate: float, current_profit: float, after_fill: bool,
-                            **kwargs) -> Optional[float]:
-            dataframe, _ = self.dp.get_analyzed_dataframe(pair, self.timeframe)
-            trade_date = timeframe_to_prev_date(self.timeframe, trade.open_date_utc)
-            candle = dataframe.iloc[-1].squeeze()
-            side = 1 if trade.is_short else -1
-            return stoploss_from_absolute(current_rate + (side * candle['atr'] * 2), 
-                                          current_rate, is_short=trade.is_short,
-                                          leverage=trade.leverage)
-
-    ```
-
+The helper function [`stoploss_from_absolute()`](strategy-customization.md#stoploss_from_absolute) can be used to convert from an absolute price, to a current price relative stop which can be returned from `custom_stoploss()`.
 
 ---
 
@@ -511,9 +384,6 @@ Each of these methods are called right before placing an order on the exchange.
 !!! Note
     If your custom pricing function return None or an invalid value, price will fall back to `proposed_rate`, which is based on the regular pricing configuration.
 
-!!! Note
-    Using custom_entry_price, the Trade object will be available as soon as the first entry order associated with the trade is created, for the first entry, `trade` parameter value will be `None`.
-
 ### Custom order entry and exit price example
 
 ``` python
@@ -524,7 +394,7 @@ class AwesomeStrategy(IStrategy):
 
     # ... populate_* methods
 
-    def custom_entry_price(self, pair: str, trade: Optional['Trade'], current_time: datetime, proposed_rate: float,
+    def custom_entry_price(self, pair: str, current_time: datetime, proposed_rate: float,
                            entry_tag: Optional[str], side: str, **kwargs) -> float:
 
         dataframe, last_updated = self.dp.get_analyzed_dataframe(pair=pair,
@@ -761,38 +631,26 @@ The `position_adjustment_enable` strategy property enables the usage of `adjust_
 For performance reasons, it's disabled by default and freqtrade will show a warning message on startup if enabled.
 `adjust_trade_position()` can be used to perform additional orders, for example to manage risk with DCA (Dollar Cost Averaging) or to increase or decrease positions.
 
+`max_entry_position_adjustment` property is used to limit the number of additional buys per trade (on top of the first buy) that the bot can execute. By default, the value is -1 which means the bot have no limit on number of adjustment buys.
+
+The strategy is expected to return a stake_amount (in stake currency) between `min_stake` and `max_stake` if and when an additional buy order should be made (position is increased).
+If there are not enough funds in the wallet (the return value is above `max_stake`) then the signal will be ignored.
 Additional orders also result in additional fees and those orders don't count towards `max_open_trades`.
 
 This callback is **not** called when there is an open order (either buy or sell) waiting for execution.
 
 `adjust_trade_position()` is called very frequently for the duration of a trade, so you must keep your implementation as performant as possible.
 
-Position adjustments will always be applied in the direction of the trade, so a positive value will always increase your position (negative values will decrease your position), no matter if it's a long or short trade.
-Adjustment orders can be assigned with a tag by returning a 2 element Tuple, with the first element being the adjustment amount, and the 2nd element the tag (e.g. `return 250, 'increase_favorable_conditions'`).
+Additional Buys are ignored once you have reached the maximum amount of extra buys that you have set on `max_entry_position_adjustment`, but the callback is called anyway looking for partial exits.
 
-Modifications to leverage are not possible, and the stake-amount returned is assumed to be before applying leverage.
-
-### Increase position
-
-The strategy is expected to return a positive **stake_amount** (in stake currency) between `min_stake` and `max_stake` if and when an additional entry order should be made (position is increased -> buy order for long trades, sell order for short trades).
-
-If there are not enough funds in the wallet (the return value is above `max_stake`) then the signal will be ignored.
-`max_entry_position_adjustment` property is used to limit the number of additional entries per trade (on top of the first entry order) that the bot can execute. By default, the value is -1 which means the bot have no limit on number of adjustment entries.
-
-Additional entries are ignored once you have reached the maximum amount of extra entries that you have set on `max_entry_position_adjustment`, but the callback is called anyway looking for partial exits.
-
-### Decrease position
-
-The strategy is expected to return a negative stake_amount (in stake currency) for a partial exit.
-Returning the full owned stake at that point (`-trade.stake_amount`) results in a full exit.  
-Returning a value more than the above (so remaining stake_amount would become negative) will result in the bot ignoring the signal.
+Position adjustments will always be applied in the direction of the trade, so a positive value will always increase your position (negative values will decrease your position), no matter if it's a long or short trade. Modifications to leverage are not possible, and the stake-amount is assumed to be before applying leverage.
 
 !!! Note "About stake size"
     Using fixed stake size means it will be the amount used for the first order, just like without position adjustment.
     If you wish to buy additional orders with DCA, then make sure to leave enough funds in the wallet for that.
     Using 'unlimited' stake amount with DCA orders requires you to also implement the `custom_stake_amount()` callback to avoid allocating all funds to the initial order.
 
-!!! Warning "Stoploss calculation"
+!!! Warning
     Stoploss is still calculated from the initial opening price, not averaged price.
     Regular stoploss rules still apply (cannot move down).
 
@@ -800,12 +658,6 @@ Returning a value more than the above (so remaining stake_amount would become ne
 
 !!! Warning "Backtesting"
     During backtesting this callback is called for each candle in `timeframe` or `timeframe_detail`, so run-time performance will be affected.
-    This can also cause deviating results between live and backtesting, since backtesting can adjust the trade only once per candle, whereas live could adjust the trade multiple times per candle.
-
-!!! Warning "Performance with many position adjustments"
-    Position adjustments can be a good approach to increase a strategy's output - but it can also have drawbacks if using this feature extensively.  
-    Each of the orders will be attached to the trade object for the duration of the trade - hence increasing memory usage.
-    Trades with long duration and 10s or even 100ds of position adjustments are therefore not recommended, and should be closed at regular intervals to not affect performance.
 
 ``` python
 from freqtrade.persistence import Trade
@@ -840,12 +692,11 @@ class DigDeeperStrategy(IStrategy):
                               min_stake: Optional[float], max_stake: float,
                               current_entry_rate: float, current_exit_rate: float,
                               current_entry_profit: float, current_exit_profit: float,
-                              **kwargs
-                              ) -> Union[Optional[float], Tuple[Optional[float], Optional[str]]]:
+                              **kwargs) -> Optional[float]:
         """
         Custom trade adjustment logic, returning the stake amount that a trade should be
         increased or decreased.
-        This means extra entry or exit orders with additional fees.
+        This means extra buy or sell orders with additional fees.
         Only called when `position_adjustment_enable` is set to True.
 
         For full documentation please go to https://www.freqtrade.io/en/latest/strategy-advanced/
@@ -854,9 +705,8 @@ class DigDeeperStrategy(IStrategy):
 
         :param trade: trade object.
         :param current_time: datetime object, containing the current datetime
-        :param current_rate: Current entry rate (same as current_entry_profit)
-        :param current_profit: Current profit (as ratio), calculated based on current_rate 
-                               (same as current_entry_profit).
+        :param current_rate: Current buy rate.
+        :param current_profit: Current profit (as ratio), calculated based on current_rate.
         :param min_stake: Minimal stake size allowed by exchange (for both entries and exits)
         :param max_stake: Maximum stake allowed (either through balance, or by exchange limits).
         :param current_entry_rate: Current rate using entry pricing.
@@ -867,12 +717,11 @@ class DigDeeperStrategy(IStrategy):
         :return float: Stake amount to adjust your trade,
                        Positive values to increase position, Negative values to decrease position.
                        Return None for no action.
-                       Optionally, return a tuple with a 2nd element with an order reason
         """
 
         if current_profit > 0.05 and trade.nr_of_successful_exits == 0:
             # Take half of the profit at +5%
-            return -(trade.stake_amount / 2), 'half_profit_5%'
+            return -(trade.stake_amount / 2)
 
         if current_profit > -0.05:
             return None
@@ -897,10 +746,10 @@ class DigDeeperStrategy(IStrategy):
         # Hope you have a deep wallet!
         try:
             # This returns first order stake size
-            stake_amount = filled_entries[0].stake_amount
+            stake_amount = filled_entries[0].cost
             # This then calculates current safety order size
             stake_amount = stake_amount * (1 + (count_of_entries * 0.25))
-            return stake_amount, '1/3rd_increase'
+            return stake_amount
         except Exception as exception:
             return None
 
@@ -923,7 +772,7 @@ class DigDeeperStrategy(IStrategy):
     * Sell 100@10\$ -> Avg price: 8.5\$, realized profit 150\$, 17.65%
     * Buy 150@11\$ -> Avg price: 10\$, realized profit 150\$, 17.65%
     * Sell 100@12\$ -> Avg price: 10\$, total realized profit 350\$, 20%
-    * Sell 150@14\$ -> Avg price: 10\$, total realized profit 950\$, 40%  <- *This will be the last "Exit" message*
+    * Sell 150@14\$ -> Avg price: 10\$, total realized profit 950\$, 40%
 
     The total profit for this trade was 950$ on a 3350$ investment (`100@8$ + 100@9$ + 150@11$`). As such - the final relative profit is 28.35% (`950 / 3350`).
 
@@ -940,8 +789,6 @@ Returning any other price will cancel the existing order, and replace it with a
 The trade open-date (`trade.open_date_utc`) will remain at the time of the very first order placed.
 Please make sure to be aware of this - and eventually adjust your logic in other callbacks to account for this, and use the date of the first filled order instead.
 
-If the cancellation of the original order fails, then the order will not be replaced - though the order will most likely have been canceled on exchange. Having this happen on initial entries will result in the deletion of the order, while on position adjustment orders, it'll result in the trade size remaining as is.
-
 !!! Warning "Regular timeout"
     Entry `unfilledtimeout` mechanism (as well as `check_entry_timeout()`) takes precedence over this.
     Entry Orders that are cancelled via the above methods will not have this callback called. Be sure to update timeout values to match your expectations.
@@ -979,7 +826,7 @@ class AwesomeStrategy(IStrategy):
 
         """
         # Limit orders to use and follow SMA200 as price target for the first 10 minutes since entry trigger for BTC/USDT pair.
-        if pair == 'BTC/USDT' and entry_tag == 'long_sma200' and side == 'long' and (current_time - timedelta(minutes=10)) > trade.open_date_utc:
+        if pair == 'BTC/USDT' and entry_tag == 'long_sma200' and side == 'long' and (current_time - timedelta(minutes=10) > trade.open_date_utc:
             # just cancel the order if it has been filled more than half of the amount
             if order.filled > order.remaining:
                 return None
@@ -1023,33 +870,3 @@ class AwesomeStrategy(IStrategy):
 
 All profit calculations include leverage. Stoploss / ROI also include leverage in their calculation.
 Defining a stoploss of 10% at 10x leverage would trigger the stoploss with a 1% move to the downside.
-
-## Order filled Callback
-
-The `order_filled()` callback may be used to perform specific actions based on the current trade state after an order is filled.
-It will be called independent of the order type (entry, exit, stoploss or position adjustment).
-
-Assuming that your strategy needs to store the high value of the candle at trade entry, this is possible with this callback as the following example show.
-
-``` python
-class AwesomeStrategy(IStrategy):
-    def order_filled(self, pair: str, trade: Trade, order: Order, current_time: datetime, **kwargs) -> None:
-        """
-        Called right after an order fills. 
-        Will be called for all order types (entry, exit, stoploss, position adjustment).
-        :param pair: Pair for trade
-        :param trade: trade object.
-        :param order: Order object.
-        :param current_time: datetime object, containing the current datetime
-        :param **kwargs: Ensure to keep this here so updates to this won't break your strategy.
-        """
-        # Obtain pair dataframe (just to show how to access it)
-        dataframe, _ = self.dp.get_analyzed_dataframe(trade.pair, self.timeframe)
-        last_candle = dataframe.iloc[-1].squeeze()
-        
-        if (trade.nr_of_successful_entries == 1) and (order.ft_order_side == trade.entry_side):
-            trade.set_custom_data(key='entry_candle_high', value=last_candle['high'])
-
-        return None
-
-```

docs/strategy-customization.md

@@ -156,9 +156,9 @@ def populate_indicators(self, dataframe: DataFrame, metadata: dict) -> DataFrame
 
 Out of the box, freqtrade installs the following technical libraries:
 
-- [ta-lib](https://ta-lib.github.io/ta-lib-python/)
-- [pandas-ta](https://twopirllc.github.io/pandas-ta/)
-- [technical](https://github.com/freqtrade/technical/)
+* [ta-lib](http://mrjbq7.github.io/ta-lib/)
+* [pandas-ta](https://twopirllc.github.io/pandas-ta/)
+* [technical](https://github.com/freqtrade/technical/)
 
 Additional technical libraries can be installed as necessary, or custom indicators may be written / invented by the strategy author.
 
@@ -168,9 +168,7 @@ Most indicators have an instable startup period, in which they are either not av
 To account for this, the strategy can be assigned the `startup_candle_count` attribute.
 This should be set to the maximum number of candles that the strategy requires to calculate stable indicators. In the case where a user includes higher timeframes with informative pairs, the `startup_candle_count` does not necessarily change. The value is the maximum period (in candles) that any of the informatives timeframes need to compute stable indicators.
 
-You can use [recursive-analysis](recursive-analysis.md) to check and find the correct `startup_candle_count` to be used.
-
-In this example strategy, this should be set to 400 (`startup_candle_count = 400`), since the minimum needed history for ema100 calculation to make sure the value is correct is 400 candles.
+In this example strategy, this should be set to 100 (`startup_candle_count = 100`), since the longest needed history is 100 candles.
 
 ``` python
     dataframe['ema100'] = ta.EMA(dataframe, timeperiod=100)
@@ -195,11 +193,11 @@ Let's try to backtest 1 month (January 2019) of 5m candles using an example stra
 freqtrade backtesting --timerange 20190101-20190201 --timeframe 5m
 ```
 
-Assuming `startup_candle_count` is set to 400, backtesting knows it needs 400 candles to generate valid buy signals. It will load data from `20190101 - (400 * 5m)` - which is ~2018-12-30 11:40:00.
+Assuming `startup_candle_count` is set to 100, backtesting knows it needs 100 candles to generate valid buy signals. It will load data from `20190101 - (100 * 5m)` - which is ~2018-12-31 15:30:00.
 If this data is available, indicators will be calculated with this extended timerange. The instable startup period (up to 2019-01-01 00:00:00) will then be removed before starting backtesting.
 
 !!! Note
-    If data for the startup period is not available, then the timerange will be adjusted to account for this startup period - so Backtesting would start at 2019-01-02 09:20:00.
+    If data for the startup period is not available, then the timerange will be adjusted to account for this startup period - so Backtesting would start at 2019-01-01 08:30:00.
 
 ### Entry signal rules
 
@@ -266,7 +264,7 @@ def populate_entry_trend(self, dataframe: DataFrame, metadata: dict) -> DataFram
 ### Exit signal rules
 
 Edit the method `populate_exit_trend()` into your strategy file to update your exit strategy.
-The exit-signal can be suppressed by setting `use_exit_signal` to false in the configuration or strategy.
+The exit-signal is only used for exits if `use_exit_signal` is set to true in the configuration.
 `use_exit_signal` will not influence [signal collision rules](#colliding-signals) - which will still apply and can prevent entries.
 
 It's important to always return the dataframe without removing/modifying the columns `"open", "high", "low", "close", "volume"`, otherwise these fields would contain something unexpected.
@@ -344,12 +342,16 @@ The above configuration would therefore mean:
 
 The calculation does include fees.
 
-To disable ROI completely, set it to an empty dictionary:
+To disable ROI completely, set it to an insanely high number:
 
 ```python
-minimal_roi = {}
+minimal_roi = {
+    "0": 100
+}
 ```
 
+While technically not completely disabled, this would exit once the trade reaches 10000% Profit.
+
 To use times based on candle duration (timeframe), the following snippet can be handy.
 This will allow you to change the timeframe for the strategy, and ROI times will still be set as candles (e.g. after 3 candles ...)
 
@@ -361,17 +363,12 @@ class AwesomeStrategy(IStrategy):
     timeframe = "1d"
     timeframe_mins = timeframe_to_minutes(timeframe)
     minimal_roi = {
-        "0": 0.05,                      # 5% for the first 3 candles
-        str(timeframe_mins * 3): 0.02,  # 2% after 3 candles
-        str(timeframe_mins * 6): 0.01,  # 1% After 6 candles
+        "0": 0.05,                             # 5% for the first 3 candles
+        str(timeframe_mins * 3)): 0.02,  # 2% after 3 candles
+        str(timeframe_mins * 6)): 0.01,  # 1% After 6 candles
     }
 ```
 
-??? info "Orders that don't fill immediately"
-    `minimal_roi` will take the `trade.open_date` as reference, which is the time the trade was initialized / the first order for this trade was placed.  
-    This will also hold true for limit orders that don't fill immediately  (usually in combination with "off-spot" prices through `custom_entry_price()`), as well as for cases where the initial order is replaced through `adjust_entry_price()`.
-    The time used will still be from the initial `trade.open_date` (when the initial order was first placed), not from the newly placed order date.
-
 ### Stoploss
 
 Setting a stoploss is highly recommended to protect your capital from strong moves against you.
@@ -449,17 +446,15 @@ A full sample can be found [in the DataProvider section](#complete-data-provider
 
 ??? Note "Alternative candle types"
     Informative_pairs can also provide a 3rd tuple element defining the candle type explicitly.
-    Availability of alternative candle-types will depend on the trading-mode and the exchange. 
-    In general, spot pairs cannot be used in futures markets, and futures candles can't be used as informative pairs for spot bots.
-    Details about this may vary, if they do, this can be found in the exchange documentation.
+    Availability of alternative candle-types will depend on the trading-mode and the exchange. Details about this can be found in the exchange documentation.
 
     ``` python
     def informative_pairs(self):
         return [
-            ("ETH/USDT", "5m", ""),   # Uses default candletype, depends on trading_mode (recommended)
-            ("ETH/USDT", "5m", "spot"),   # Forces usage of spot candles (only valid for bots running on spot markets).
-            ("BTC/TUSD", "15m", "futures"),  # Uses futures candles (only bots with `trading_mode=futures`)
-            ("BTC/TUSD", "15m", "mark"),  # Uses mark candles (only bots with `trading_mode=futures`)
+            ("ETH/USDT", "5m", ""),   # Uses default candletype, depends on trading_mode 
+            ("ETH/USDT", "5m", "spot"),   # Forces usage of spot candles
+            ("BTC/TUSD", "15m", "futures"),  # Uses futures candles
+            ("BTC/TUSD", "15m", "mark"),  # Uses mark candles
         ]
     ```
 ***
@@ -491,18 +486,17 @@ for more information.
 
         :param timeframe: Informative timeframe. Must always be equal or higher than strategy timeframe.
         :param asset: Informative asset, for example BTC, BTC/USDT, ETH/BTC. Do not specify to use
-                    current pair. Also supports limited pair format strings (see below)
+        current pair.
         :param fmt: Column format (str) or column formatter (callable(name, asset, timeframe)). When not
         specified, defaults to:
-        * {base}_{quote}_{column}_{timeframe} if asset is specified.
+        * {base}_{quote}_{column}_{timeframe} if asset is specified. 
         * {column}_{timeframe} if asset is not specified.
-        Pair format supports these format variables:
+        Format string supports these format variables:
+        * {asset} - full name of the asset, for example 'BTC/USDT'.
         * {base} - base currency in lower case, for example 'eth'.
         * {BASE} - same as {base}, except in upper case.
         * {quote} - quote currency in lower case, for example 'usdt'.
         * {QUOTE} - same as {quote}, except in upper case.
-        Format string additionally supports this variables.
-        * {asset} - full name of the asset, for example 'BTC/USDT'.
         * {column} - name of dataframe column.
         * {timeframe} - timeframe of informative dataframe.
         :param ffill: ffill dataframe after merging informative pair.
@@ -594,67 +588,6 @@ for more information.
     will overwrite previously defined method and not produce any errors due to limitations of Python programming language. In such cases you will find that indicators
     created in earlier-defined methods are not available in the dataframe. Carefully review method names and make sure they are unique!
 
-### *merge_informative_pair()*
-
-This method helps you merge an informative pair to a regular dataframe without lookahead bias.
-It's there to help you merge the dataframe in a safe and consistent way.
-
-Options:
-
-- Rename the columns for you to create unique columns
-- Merge the dataframe without lookahead bias
-- Forward-fill (optional)
-
-For a full sample, please refer to the [complete data provider example](#complete-data-provider-sample) below.
-
-All columns of the informative dataframe will be available on the returning dataframe in a renamed fashion:
-
-!!! Example "Column renaming"
-    Assuming `inf_tf = '1d'` the resulting columns will be:
-
-    ``` python
-    'date', 'open', 'high', 'low', 'close', 'rsi'                     # from the original dataframe
-    'date_1d', 'open_1d', 'high_1d', 'low_1d', 'close_1d', 'rsi_1d'   # from the informative dataframe
-    ```
-
-??? Example "Column renaming - 1h"
-    Assuming `inf_tf = '1h'` the resulting columns will be:
-
-    ``` python
-    'date', 'open', 'high', 'low', 'close', 'rsi'                     # from the original dataframe
-    'date_1h', 'open_1h', 'high_1h', 'low_1h', 'close_1h', 'rsi_1h'   # from the informative dataframe
-    ```
-
-??? Example "Custom implementation"
-    A custom implementation for this is possible, and can be done as follows:
-
-    ``` python
-
-    # Shift date by 1 candle
-    # This is necessary since the data is always the "open date"
-    # and a 15m candle starting at 12:15 should not know the close of the 1h candle from 12:00 to 13:00
-    minutes = timeframe_to_minutes(inf_tf)
-    # Only do this if the timeframes are different:
-    informative['date_merge'] = informative["date"] + pd.to_timedelta(minutes, 'm')
-
-    # Rename columns to be unique
-    informative.columns = [f"{col}_{inf_tf}" for col in informative.columns]
-    # Assuming inf_tf = '1d' - then the columns will now be:
-    # date_1d, open_1d, high_1d, low_1d, close_1d, rsi_1d
-
-    # Combine the 2 dataframes
-    # all indicators on the informative sample MUST be calculated before this point
-    dataframe = pd.merge(dataframe, informative, left_on='date', right_on=f'date_merge_{inf_tf}', how='left')
-    # FFill to have the 1d value available in every row throughout the day.
-    # Without this, comparisons would only work once per day.
-    dataframe = dataframe.ffill()
-
-    ```
-
-!!! Warning "Informative timeframe < timeframe"
-    Using informative timeframes smaller than the dataframe timeframe is not recommended with this method, as it will not use any of the additional information this would provide.
-    To use the more detailed information properly, more advanced methods should be applied (which are out of scope for freqtrade documentation, as it'll depend on the respective need).
-
 ## Additional data (DataProvider)
 
 The strategy provides access to the `DataProvider`. This allows you to get additional data to use in your strategy.
@@ -722,13 +655,13 @@ This is where calling `self.dp.current_whitelist()` comes in handy.
 # fetch live / historical candle (OHLCV) data for the first informative pair
 inf_pair, inf_timeframe = self.informative_pairs()[0]
 informative = self.dp.get_pair_dataframe(pair=inf_pair,
-                                         timeframe=inf_timeframe)
+                                            timeframe=inf_timeframe)
 ```
 
 !!! Warning "Warning about backtesting"
-    In backtesting, `dp.get_pair_dataframe()` behavior differs depending on where it's called.
-    Within `populate_*()` methods, `dp.get_pair_dataframe()` returns the full timerange. Please make sure to not "look into the future" to avoid surprises when running in dry/live mode.
-    Within [callbacks](strategy-callbacks.md), you'll get the full timerange up to the current (simulated) candle.
+    Be careful when using dataprovider in backtesting. `historic_ohlcv()` (and `get_pair_dataframe()`
+    for the backtesting runmode) provides the full time-range in one go,
+    so please be aware of it and make sure to not "look into the future" to avoid surprises when running in dry/live mode.
 
 ### *get_analyzed_dataframe(pair, timeframe)*
 
@@ -737,13 +670,13 @@ It can also be used in specific callbacks to get the signal that caused the acti
 
 ``` python
 # fetch current dataframe
-dataframe, last_updated = self.dp.get_analyzed_dataframe(pair=metadata['pair'],
-                                                         timeframe=self.timeframe)
+if self.dp.runmode.value in ('live', 'dry_run'):
+    dataframe, last_updated = self.dp.get_analyzed_dataframe(pair=metadata['pair'],
+                                                                timeframe=self.timeframe)
 ```
 
 !!! Note "No data available"
     Returns an empty dataframe if the requested pair was not cached.
-    You can check for this with `if dataframe.empty:` and handle this case accordingly.
     This should not happen when using whitelisted pairs.
 
 ### *orderbook(pair, maximum)*
@@ -790,7 +723,7 @@ if self.dp.runmode.value in ('live', 'dry_run'):
 
 !!! Warning
     Although the ticker data structure is a part of the ccxt Unified Interface, the values returned by this method can
-    vary for different exchanges. For instance, many exchanges do not return `vwap` values, some exchanges
+    vary for different exchanges. For instance, many exchanges do not return `vwap` values, the FTX exchange
     does not always fills in the `last` field (so it can be None), etc. So you need to carefully verify the ticker
     data returned from the exchange and add appropriate error handling / defaults.
 
@@ -879,16 +812,152 @@ class SampleStrategy(IStrategy):
 
 ***
 
+## Helper functions
+
+### *merge_informative_pair()*
+
+This method helps you merge an informative pair to a regular dataframe without lookahead bias.
+It's there to help you merge the dataframe in a safe and consistent way.
+
+Options:
+
+- Rename the columns for you to create unique columns
+- Merge the dataframe without lookahead bias
+- Forward-fill (optional)
+
+For a full sample, please refer to the [complete data provider example](#complete-data-provider-sample) below.
+
+All columns of the informative dataframe will be available on the returning dataframe in a renamed fashion:
+
+!!! Example "Column renaming"
+    Assuming `inf_tf = '1d'` the resulting columns will be:
+
+    ``` python
+    'date', 'open', 'high', 'low', 'close', 'rsi'                     # from the original dataframe
+    'date_1d', 'open_1d', 'high_1d', 'low_1d', 'close_1d', 'rsi_1d'   # from the informative dataframe
+    ```
+
+??? Example "Column renaming - 1h"
+    Assuming `inf_tf = '1h'` the resulting columns will be:
+
+    ``` python
+    'date', 'open', 'high', 'low', 'close', 'rsi'                     # from the original dataframe
+    'date_1h', 'open_1h', 'high_1h', 'low_1h', 'close_1h', 'rsi_1h'   # from the informative dataframe
+    ```
+
+??? Example "Custom implementation"
+    A custom implementation for this is possible, and can be done as follows:
+
+    ``` python
+
+    # Shift date by 1 candle
+    # This is necessary since the data is always the "open date"
+    # and a 15m candle starting at 12:15 should not know the close of the 1h candle from 12:00 to 13:00
+    minutes = timeframe_to_minutes(inf_tf)
+    # Only do this if the timeframes are different:
+    informative['date_merge'] = informative["date"] + pd.to_timedelta(minutes, 'm')
+
+    # Rename columns to be unique
+    informative.columns = [f"{col}_{inf_tf}" for col in informative.columns]
+    # Assuming inf_tf = '1d' - then the columns will now be:
+    # date_1d, open_1d, high_1d, low_1d, close_1d, rsi_1d
+
+    # Combine the 2 dataframes
+    # all indicators on the informative sample MUST be calculated before this point
+    dataframe = pd.merge(dataframe, informative, left_on='date', right_on=f'date_merge_{inf_tf}', how='left')
+    # FFill to have the 1d value available in every row throughout the day.
+    # Without this, comparisons would only work once per day.
+    dataframe = dataframe.ffill()
+
+    ```
+
+!!! Warning "Informative timeframe < timeframe"
+    Using informative timeframes smaller than the dataframe timeframe is not recommended with this method, as it will not use any of the additional information this would provide.
+    To use the more detailed information properly, more advanced methods should be applied (which are out of scope for freqtrade documentation, as it'll depend on the respective need).
+
+***
+
+### *stoploss_from_open()*
+
+Stoploss values returned from `custom_stoploss` must specify a percentage relative to `current_rate`, but sometimes you may want to specify a stoploss relative to the open price instead. `stoploss_from_open()` is a helper function to calculate a stoploss value that can be returned from `custom_stoploss` which will be equivalent to the desired percentage above the open price.
+
+??? Example "Returning a stoploss relative to the open price from the custom stoploss function"
+
+    Say the open price was $100, and `current_price` is $121 (`current_profit` will be `0.21`).  
+
+    If we want a stop price at 7% above the open price we can call `stoploss_from_open(0.07, current_profit, False)` which will return `0.1157024793`.  11.57% below $121 is $107, which is the same as 7% above $100.
+
+
+    ``` python
+
+    from datetime import datetime
+    from freqtrade.persistence import Trade
+    from freqtrade.strategy import IStrategy, stoploss_from_open
+
+    class AwesomeStrategy(IStrategy):
+
+        # ... populate_* methods
+
+        use_custom_stoploss = True
+
+        def custom_stoploss(self, pair: str, trade: 'Trade', current_time: datetime,
+                            current_rate: float, current_profit: float, **kwargs) -> float:
+
+            # once the profit has risen above 10%, keep the stoploss at 7% above the open price
+            if current_profit > 0.10:
+                return stoploss_from_open(0.07, current_profit, is_short=trade.is_short)
+
+            return 1
+
+    ```
+
+    Full examples can be found in the [Custom stoploss](strategy-advanced.md#custom-stoploss) section of the Documentation.
+
+!!! Note
+    Providing invalid input to `stoploss_from_open()` may produce "CustomStoploss function did not return valid stoploss" warnings.
+    This may happen if `current_profit` parameter is below specified `open_relative_stop`. Such situations may arise when closing trade
+    is blocked by `confirm_trade_exit()` method. Warnings can be solved by never blocking stop loss sells by checking `exit_reason` in
+    `confirm_trade_exit()`, or by using `return stoploss_from_open(...) or 1` idiom, which will request to not change stop loss when
+    `current_profit < open_relative_stop`.
+
+### *stoploss_from_absolute()*
+
+In some situations it may be confusing to deal with stops relative to current rate. Instead, you may define a stoploss level using an absolute price.
+
+??? Example "Returning a stoploss using absolute price from the custom stoploss function"
+
+    If we want to trail a stop price at 2xATR below current price we can call `stoploss_from_absolute(current_rate - (candle['atr'] * 2), current_rate, is_short=trade.is_short)`.
+
+    ``` python
+
+    from datetime import datetime
+    from freqtrade.persistence import Trade
+    from freqtrade.strategy import IStrategy, stoploss_from_absolute
+
+    class AwesomeStrategy(IStrategy):
+
+        use_custom_stoploss = True
+
+        def populate_indicators_1h(self, dataframe: DataFrame, metadata: dict) -> DataFrame:
+            dataframe['atr'] = ta.ATR(dataframe, timeperiod=14)
+            return dataframe
+
+        def custom_stoploss(self, pair: str, trade: 'Trade', current_time: datetime,
+                            current_rate: float, current_profit: float, **kwargs) -> float:
+            dataframe, _ = self.dp.get_analyzed_dataframe(pair, self.timeframe)
+            candle = dataframe.iloc[-1].squeeze()
+            return stoploss_from_absolute(current_rate - (candle['atr'] * 2), current_rate, is_short=trade.is_short)
+
+    ```
+
 ## Additional data (Wallets)
 
-The strategy provides access to the `wallets` object. This contains the current balances on the exchange.
+The strategy provides access to the `Wallets` object. This contains the current balances on the exchange.
 
-!!! Note "Backtesting / Hyperopt"
-    Wallets behaves differently depending on the function it's called.
-    Within `populate_*()` methods, it'll return the full wallet as configured.
-    Within [callbacks](strategy-callbacks.md), you'll get the wallet state corresponding to the actual simulated wallet at that point in the simulation process.
+!!! Note
+    Wallets is not available during backtesting / hyperopt.
 
-Please always check if `wallets` is available to avoid failures during backtesting.
+Please always check if `Wallets` is available to avoid failures during backtesting.
 
 ``` python
 if self.wallets:
@@ -918,18 +987,38 @@ from freqtrade.persistence import Trade
 The following example queries for the current pair and trades from today, however other filters can easily be added.
 
 ``` python
-trades = Trade.get_trades_proxy(pair=metadata['pair'],
-                                open_date=datetime.now(timezone.utc) - timedelta(days=1),
-                                is_open=False,
-            ]).order_by(Trade.close_date).all()
-# Summarize profit for this pair.
-curdayprofit = sum(trade.close_profit for trade in trades)
+if self.config['runmode'].value in ('live', 'dry_run'):
+    trades = Trade.get_trades([Trade.pair == metadata['pair'],
+                               Trade.open_date > datetime.utcnow() - timedelta(days=1),
+                               Trade.is_open.is_(False),
+                ]).order_by(Trade.close_date).all()
+    # Summarize profit for this pair.
+    curdayprofit = sum(trade.close_profit for trade in trades)
 ```
 
-For a full list of available methods, please consult the [Trade object](trade-object.md) documentation.
+Get amount of stake_currency currently invested in Trades:
+
+``` python
+if self.config['runmode'].value in ('live', 'dry_run'):
+    total_stakes = Trade.total_open_trades_stakes()
+```
+
+Retrieve performance per pair.
+Returns a List of dicts per pair.
+
+``` python
+if self.config['runmode'].value in ('live', 'dry_run'):
+    performance = Trade.get_overall_performance()
+```
+
+Sample return value: ETH/BTC had 5 trades, with a total profit of 1.5% (ratio of 0.015).
+
+``` json
+{"pair": "ETH/BTC", "profit": 0.015, "count": 5}
+```
 
 !!! Warning
-    Trade history is not available in `populate_*` methods during backtesting or hyperopt, and will result in empty results.
+    Trade history is not available during backtesting or hyperopt.
 
 ## Prevent trades from happening for a specific pair
 
@@ -965,10 +1054,11 @@ from datetime import timedelta, datetime, timezone
 
 # Within populate indicators (or populate_buy):
 if self.config['runmode'].value in ('live', 'dry_run'):
-    # fetch closed trades for the last 2 days
-    trades = Trade.get_trades_proxy(
-        pair=metadata['pair'], is_open=False, 
-        open_date=datetime.now(timezone.utc) - timedelta(days=2))
+   # fetch closed trades for the last 2 days
+    trades = Trade.get_trades([Trade.pair == metadata['pair'],
+                               Trade.open_date > datetime.utcnow() - timedelta(days=2),
+                               Trade.is_open.is_(False),
+                ]).all()
     # Analyze the conditions you'd like to lock the pair .... will probably be different for every strategy
     sumprofit = sum(trade.close_profit for trade in trades)
     if sumprofit < 0:
@@ -1009,15 +1099,11 @@ This is a common pain-point, which can cause huge differences between backtestin
 
 The following lists some common patterns which should be avoided to prevent frustration:
 
-- don't use `shift(-1)` or other negative values. This uses data from the future in backtesting, which is not available in dry or live modes.
-- don't use `.iloc[-1]` or any other absolute position in the dataframe within `populate_` functions, as this will be different between dry-run and backtesting. Absolute `iloc` indexing is safe to use in callbacks however - see [Strategy Callbacks](strategy-callbacks.md).
+- don't use `shift(-1)`. This uses data from the future, which is not available.
+- don't use `.iloc[-1]` or any other absolute position in the dataframe, this will be different between dry-run and backtesting.
 - don't use `dataframe['volume'].mean()`. This uses the full DataFrame for backtesting, including data from the future. Use `dataframe['volume'].rolling(<window>).mean()` instead
 - don't use `.resample('1h')`. This uses the left border of the interval, so moves data from an hour to the start of the hour. Use `.resample('1h', label='right')` instead.
 
-!!! Tip "Identifying problems"
-    You may also want to check the 2 helper commands [lookahead-analysis](lookahead-analysis.md) and [recursive-analysis](recursive-analysis.md), which can each help you figure out problems with your strategy in different ways.
-    Please treat them as what they are - helpers to identify most common problems. A negative result of each does not guarantee that there's none of the above errors included.
-
 ### Colliding signals
 
 When conflicting signals collide (e.g. both `'enter_long'` and `'exit_long'` are 1), freqtrade will do nothing and ignore the entry signal. This will avoid trades that enter, and exit immediately. Obviously, this can potentially lead to missed entries.