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 # Freqtrade FAQ
 
+## Beginner Tips & Tricks
+
+* 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 issues
 
 ### The bot does not start
@@ -15,10 +19,12 @@ This could have the following reasons:
 
 ### I have waited 5 minutes, why hasn't the bot made any trades yet?!
 
-Depending on the buy strategy, the amount of whitelisted coins, the
+* Depending on the buy strategy, the amount of whitelisted coins, the
 situation of the market etc, it can take up to hours to find good entry
 position for a trade. Be patient!
 
+* Or it may because of a configuration error? Best check the logs, it's usually telling you if the bot is simply not getting buy signals (only heartbeat messages), or if there is something wrong (errors / exceptions in the log).
+
 ### I have made 12 trades already, why is my total profit negative?!
 
 I understand your disappointment but unfortunately 12 trades is just
@@ -129,25 +135,27 @@ to find a great result (unless if you are very lucky), so you probably
 have to run it for 10.000 or more. But it will take an eternity to
 compute.
 
-We recommend you to run it at least 10.000 epochs:
+Since hyperopt uses Bayesian search, running for too many epochs may not produce greater results.
+
+It's therefore recommended to run between 500-1000 epochs over and over until you hit at least 10.000 epocs in total (or are satisfied with the result). You can best judge by looking at the results - if the bot keeps discovering better strategies, it's best to keep on going. 
 
 ```bash
-freqtrade hyperopt -e 10000
+freqtrade hyperopt -e 1000
 ```
 
 or if you want intermediate result to see
 
 ```bash
-for i in {1..100}; do freqtrade hyperopt -e 100; done
+for i in {1..100}; do freqtrade hyperopt -e 1000; done
 ```
 
-### Why it is so long to run hyperopt?
+### Why does it take a long time to run hyperopt?
 
-Finding a great Hyperopt results takes time.
+* Discovering a great strategy with Hyperopt takes time. Study www.freqtrade.io, the Freqtrade Documentation page, join the Freqtrade [Slack community](https://join.slack.com/t/highfrequencybot/shared_invite/enQtNjU5ODcwNjI1MDU3LTU1MTgxMjkzNmYxNWE1MDEzYzQ3YmU4N2MwZjUyNjJjODRkMDVkNjg4YTAyZGYzYzlhOTZiMTE4ZjQ4YzM0OGE) - or the Freqtrade [discord community](https://discord.gg/X89cVG). While you patiently wait for the most advanced, free crypto bot in the world, to hand you a possible golden strategy specially designed just for you.
 
-If you wonder why it takes a while to find great hyperopt results
+* If you wonder why it can take from 20 minutes to days to do 1000 epocs here are some answers:
 
-This answer was written during the under the release 0.15.1, when we had:
+This answer was written during the release 0.15.1, when we had:
 
 - 8 triggers
 - 9 guards: let's say we evaluate even 10 values from each
@@ -157,7 +165,14 @@ The following calculation is still very rough and not very precise
 but it will give the idea. With only these triggers and guards there is
 already 8\*10^9\*10 evaluations. A roughly total of 80 billion evals.
 Did you run 100 000 evals? Congrats, you've done roughly 1 / 100 000 th
-of the search space.
+of the search space, assuming that the bot never tests the same parameters more than once.
+
+* The time it takes to run 1000 hyperopt epocs depends on things like: The available cpu, harddisk, ram, timeframe, timerange, indicator settings, indicator count, amount of coins that hyperopt test strategies on and the resulting trade count - which can be 650 trades in a year or 10.0000 trades depending if the strategy aims for big profits by trading rarely or for many low profit trades. 
+
+Example: 4% profit 650 times vs 0,3% profit a trade 10.000 times in a year. If we assume you set the --timerange to 365 days. 
+
+Example: 
+`freqtrade --config config.json --strategy SampleStrategy --hyperopt SampleHyperopt -e 1000 --timerange 20190601-20200601`
 
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