diff --git a/config_examples/config_freqai.example.json b/config_examples/config_freqai.example.json
index fe5e35c1d..db8ae7181 100644
--- a/config_examples/config_freqai.example.json
+++ b/config_examples/config_freqai.example.json
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
                 10,
                 20
             ],
-            "plot_feature_importance": false
+            "plot_feature_importances": 0
         },
         "data_split_parameters": {
             "test_size": 0.33,
diff --git a/freqtrade/constants.py b/freqtrade/constants.py
index 4c2bd6e18..e14e81343 100644
--- a/freqtrade/constants.py
+++ b/freqtrade/constants.py
@@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ CONF_SCHEMA = {
                         "weight_factor": {"type": "number", "default": 0},
                         "principal_component_analysis": {"type": "boolean", "default": False},
                         "use_SVM_to_remove_outliers": {"type": "boolean", "default": False},
-                        "plot_feature_importance": {"type": "boolean", "default": False},
+                        "plot_feature_importances": {"type": "integer", "default": 0},
                         "svm_params": {"type": "object",
                                        "properties": {
                                            "shuffle": {"type": "boolean", "default": False},