diff --git a/freqtrade/exchange/__init__.py b/freqtrade/exchange/__init__.py
index 6205138da..87bd0bbd1 100644
--- a/freqtrade/exchange/__init__.py
+++ b/freqtrade/exchange/__init__.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import enum
 import logging
 from random import randint
-from typing import List, Dict, Any
+from typing import List, Dict, Any, Optional
 
 import arrow
 
@@ -122,8 +122,8 @@ def get_ticker(pair: str) -> dict:
     return _API.get_ticker(pair)
 
 
-def get_ticker_history(pair: str) -> List:
-    return _API.get_ticker_history(pair)
+def get_ticker_history(pair: str, tick_interval: Optional[int] = 5) -> List:
+    return _API.get_ticker_history(pair, tick_interval)
 
 
 def cancel_order(order_id: str) -> None:
diff --git a/freqtrade/exchange/bittrex.py b/freqtrade/exchange/bittrex.py
index f7011ce2e..5c46df519 100644
--- a/freqtrade/exchange/bittrex.py
+++ b/freqtrade/exchange/bittrex.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import logging
-from typing import List, Dict
+from typing import List, Dict, Optional
 
 import requests
 from bittrex.bittrex import Bittrex as _Bittrex
@@ -20,14 +20,11 @@ class Bittrex(Exchange):
     BASE_URL: str = 'https://www.bittrex.com'
     TICKER_METHOD: str = BASE_URL + '/Api/v2.0/pub/market/GetTicks'
     PAIR_DETAIL_METHOD: str = BASE_URL + '/Market/Index'
-    # Ticker inveral
-    TICKER_INTERVAL: str = 'fiveMin'
-    # Sleep time to avoid rate limits, used in the main loop
-    SLEEP_TIME: float = 25
 
     @property
     def sleep_time(self) -> float:
-        return self.SLEEP_TIME
+        """ Sleep time to avoid rate limits, used in the main loop """
+        return 25
 
     def __init__(self, config: dict) -> None:
         global _API, _EXCHANGE_CONF
@@ -86,17 +83,24 @@ class Bittrex(Exchange):
             'last': float(data['result']['Last']),
         }
 
-    def get_ticker_history(self, pair: str):
-        url = self.TICKER_METHOD
+    def get_ticker_history(self, pair: str, tick_interval: int):
         headers = {
             # TODO: Set as global setting
             'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36'
         }
+
+        if tick_interval == 1:
+            interval = 'oneMin'
+        elif tick_interval == 5:
+            interval = 'fiveMin'
+        else:
+            raise ValueError('Cannot parse tick_interval: {}'.format(tick_interval))
+
         params = {
             'marketName': pair.replace('_', '-'),
-            'tickInterval': self.TICKER_INTERVAL,
+            'tickInterval': interval,
         }
-        data = requests.get(url, params=params, headers=headers).json()
+        data = requests.get(self.TICKER_METHOD, params=params, headers=headers).json()
         if not data['success']:
             raise RuntimeError('{message} params=({pair})'.format(
                 message=data['message'],
diff --git a/freqtrade/exchange/interface.py b/freqtrade/exchange/interface.py
index 904123093..44297ee6a 100644
--- a/freqtrade/exchange/interface.py
+++ b/freqtrade/exchange/interface.py
@@ -83,10 +83,11 @@ class Exchange(ABC):
         """
 
     @abstractmethod
-    def get_ticker_history(self, pair: str) -> List:
+    def get_ticker_history(self, pair: str, tick_interval: int) -> List:
         """
         Gets ticker history for given pair.
         :param pair: Pair as str, format: BTC_ETC
+        :param tick_interval: ticker interval in minutes
         :return: list, format: [
             {
                 'O': float,       (Open)