Now you have good Buy and Sell strategies and some historic data, you want to test it against
Now you have good Entry and exit strategies and some historic data, you want to test it against
real data. This is what we call [backtesting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backtesting).
Backtesting will use the crypto-currencies (pairs) from your config file and load historical candle (OHLCV) data from `user_data/data/<exchange>` by default.
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To account for this in backtesting, you can use the `--fee` command line option to supply this value to backtesting.
This fee must be a ratio, and will be applied twice (once for trade entry, and once for trade exit).
For example, if the buying and selling commission fee is 0.1% (i.e., 0.001 written as ratio), then you would run backtesting as the following:
For example, if the commission fee per order is 0.1% (i.e., 0.001 written as ratio), then you would run backtesting as the following:
```bash
freqtrade backtesting --fee 0.001
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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%`.
Your strategy performance is influenced by your buy strategy, your exit strategy, and also by the `minimal_roi` and `stop_loss` you have set.
Your strategy performance is influenced by your entry strategy, your exit strategy, and also by the `minimal_roi` and `stop_loss` you have set.
For example, if your `minimal_roi` is only `"0": 0.01` you cannot expect the bot to make more profit than 1% (because it will exit every time a trade reaches 1%).
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Since backtesting lacks some detailed information about what happens within a candle, it needs to take a few assumptions:
- Exchange [trading limits](#trading-limits-in-backtesting) are respected
- Buys happen at open-price
- Entries happen at open-price
- All orders are filled at the requested price (no slippage, no unfilled orders)
- Exit-signal exits happen at open-price of the consecutive candle
- Exit-signal is favored over Stoploss, because exit-signals are assumed to trigger on candle's open
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Detailed output for all strategies one after the other will be available, so make sure to scroll up to see the details per strategy.
Matthias
4 years ago