Plotting

This page explains how to plot prices, indicators and profits.

Installation / Setup

Plotting modules use the Plotly library. You can install / upgrade this by running the following command:

bash pip install -U -r requirements-plot.txt

Plot price and indicators

The freqtrade plot-dataframe subcommand shows an interactive graph with three subplots:

• Main plot with candlestics and indicators following price (sma/ema)
• Volume bars
• Additional indicators as specified by --indicators2

Possible arguments:

``` usage: freqtrade plot-dataframe [-h] [-v] [--logfile FILE] [-V] [-c PATH] [-d PATH] [--userdir PATH] [-s NAME] [--strategy-path PATH] [-p PAIRS [PAIRS ...]] [--indicators1 INDICATORS1 [INDICATORS1 ...]] [--indicators2 INDICATORS2 [INDICATORS2 ...]] [--plot-limit INT] [--db-url PATH] [--trade-source {DB,file}] [--export EXPORT] [--export-filename PATH] [--timerange TIMERANGE] [-i TIMEFRAME] [--no-trades]

optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit -p PAIRS [PAIRS ...], --pairs PAIRS [PAIRS ...] Limit command to these pairs. Pairs are space- separated. --indicators1 INDICATORS1 [INDICATORS1 ...] Set indicators from your strategy you want in the first row of the graph. Space-separated list. Example: ema3 ema5. Default: ['sma', 'ema3', 'ema5']. --indicators2 INDICATORS2 [INDICATORS2 ...] Set indicators from your strategy you want in the third row of the graph. Space-separated list. Example: fastd fastk. Default: ['macd', 'macdsignal']. --plot-limit INT Specify tick limit for plotting. Notice: too high values cause huge files. Default: 750. --db-url PATH Override trades database URL, this is useful in custom deployments (default: sqlite:///tradesv3.sqlite for Live Run mode, sqlite:///tradesv3.dryrun.sqlite for Dry Run). --trade-source {DB,file} Specify the source for trades (Can be DB or file (backtest file)) Default: file --export EXPORT Export backtest results, argument are: trades. Example: --export=trades --export-filename PATH Save backtest results to the file with this filename. Requires --export to be set as well. Example: --export-filename=user_data/backtest_results/backtest _today.json --timerange TIMERANGE Specify what timerange of data to use. -i TIMEFRAME, --timeframe TIMEFRAME, --ticker-interval TIMEFRAME Specify timeframe (1m, 5m, 30m, 1h, 1d). --no-trades Skip using trades from backtesting file and DB.

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.

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Example:

bash freqtrade plot-dataframe -p BTC/ETH

The -p/--pairs argument can be used to specify pairs you would like to plot.

Note

The freqtrade plot-dataframe subcommand generates one plot-file per pair.

Specify custom indicators. Use --indicators1 for the main plot and --indicators2 for the subplot below (if values are in a different range than prices).

Tip

You will almost certainly want to specify a custom strategy! This can be done by adding -s Classname / --strategy ClassName to the command.

bash freqtrade plot-dataframe --strategy AwesomeStrategy -p BTC/ETH --indicators1 sma ema --indicators2 macd

Further usage examples

To plot multiple pairs, separate them with a space:

bash freqtrade plot-dataframe --strategy AwesomeStrategy -p BTC/ETH XRP/ETH

To plot a timerange (to zoom in)

bash freqtrade plot-dataframe --strategy AwesomeStrategy -p BTC/ETH --timerange=20180801-20180805

To plot trades stored in a database use --db-url in combination with --trade-source DB:

bash freqtrade plot-dataframe --strategy AwesomeStrategy --db-url sqlite:///tradesv3.dry_run.sqlite -p BTC/ETH --trade-source DB

To plot trades from a backtesting result, use --export-filename <filename>

bash freqtrade plot-dataframe --strategy AwesomeStrategy --export-filename user_data/backtest_results/backtest-result.json -p BTC/ETH

Plot dataframe basics

The plot-dataframe subcommand requires backtesting data, a strategy and either a backtesting-results file or a database, containing trades corresponding to the strategy.

The resulting plot will have the following elements:

• Green triangles: Buy signals from the strategy. (Note: not every buy signal generates a trade, compare to cyan circles.)
• Red triangles: Sell signals from the strategy. (Also, not every sell signal terminates a trade, compare to red and green squares.)
• Cyan circles: Trade entry points.
• Red squares: Trade exit points for trades with loss or 0% profit.
• Green squares: Trade exit points for profitable trades.
• Indicators with values corresponding to the candle scale (e.g. SMA/EMA), as specified with --indicators1.
• Volume (bar chart at the bottom of the main chart).
• Indicators with values in different scales (e.g. MACD, RSI) below the volume bars, as specified with --indicators2.

Bollinger Bands

Bollinger bands are automatically added to the plot if the columns bb_lowerband and bb_upperband exist, and are painted as a light blue area spanning from the lower band to the upper band.

Advanced plot configuration

An advanced plot configuration can be specified in the strategy in the plot_config parameter.

Additional features when using plot_config include:

• Specify colors per indicator
• Specify additional subplots
• Specify indicator pairs to fill area in between

The sample plot configuration below specifies fixed colors for the indicators. Otherwise, consecutive plots may produce different color schemes each time, making comparisons difficult. It also allows multiple subplots to display both MACD and RSI at the same time.

Plot type can be configured using type key. Possible types are: * scatter corresponding to plotly.graph_objects.Scatter class (default). * bar corresponding to plotly.graph_objects.Bar class.

Extra parameters to plotly.graph_objects.* constructor can be specified in plotly dict.

Sample configuration with inline comments explaining the process:

`` python plot_config = { 'main_plot': { # Configuration for main plot indicators. # Specifiesema10to be red, andema50` to be a shade of gray 'ema10': {'color': 'red'}, 'ema50': {'color': '#CCCCCC'}, # By omitting color, a random color is selected. 'sar': {}, # fill area between senkou_a and senkou_b 'senkou_a': { 'color': 'green', #optional 'fill_to': 'senkou_b', 'fill_label': 'Ichimoku Cloud', #optional 'fill_color': 'rgba(255,76,46,0.2)', #optional }, # plot senkou_b, too. Not only the area to it. 'senkou_b': {} }, 'subplots': { # Create subplot MACD "MACD": { 'macd': {'color': 'blue', 'fill_to': 'macdhist'}, 'macdsignal': {'color': 'orange'}, 'macdhist': {'type': 'bar', 'plotly': {'opacity': 0.9}} }, # Additional subplot RSI "RSI": { 'rsi': {'color': 'red'} } } }

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Note

The above configuration assumes that ema10, ema50, senkou_a, senkou_b, macd, macdsignal, macdhist and rsi are columns in the DataFrame created by the strategy.

Warning

plotly arguments are only supported with plotly library and will not work with freq-ui.

Plot profit

The plot-profit subcommand shows an interactive graph with three plots:

• Average closing price for all pairs.
• The summarized profit made by backtesting. Note that this is not the real-world profit, but more of an estimate.
• Profit for each individual pair.

The first graph is good to get a grip of how the overall market progresses.

The second graph will show if your algorithm works or doesn't. Perhaps you want an algorithm that steadily makes small profits, or one that acts less often, but makes big swings. This graph will also highlight the start (and end) of the Max drawdown period.

The third graph can be useful to spot outliers, events in pairs that cause profit spikes.

Possible options for the freqtrade plot-profit subcommand:

``` usage: freqtrade plot-profit [-h] [-v] [--logfile FILE] [-V] [-c PATH] [-d PATH] [--userdir PATH] [-s NAME] [--strategy-path PATH] [-p PAIRS [PAIRS ...]] [--timerange TIMERANGE] [--export EXPORT] [--export-filename PATH] [--db-url PATH] [--trade-source {DB,file}] [-i TIMEFRAME]

optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit -p PAIRS [PAIRS ...], --pairs PAIRS [PAIRS ...] Limit command to these pairs. Pairs are space- separated. --timerange TIMERANGE Specify what timerange of data to use. --export EXPORT Export backtest results, argument are: trades. Example: --export=trades --export-filename PATH Save backtest results to the file with this filename. Requires --export to be set as well. Example: --export-filename=user_data/backtest_results/backtest _today.json --db-url PATH Override trades database URL, this is useful in custom deployments (default: sqlite:///tradesv3.sqlite for Live Run mode, sqlite:///tradesv3.dryrun.sqlite for Dry Run). --trade-source {DB,file} Specify the source for trades (Can be DB or file (backtest file)) Default: file -i TIMEFRAME, --timeframe TIMEFRAME, --ticker-interval TIMEFRAME Specify timeframe (1m, 5m, 30m, 1h, 1d). --auto-open Automatically open generated plot.

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.

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The -p/--pairs argument, can be used to limit the pairs that are considered for this calculation.

Examples:

Use custom backtest-export file

bash freqtrade plot-profit -p LTC/BTC --export-filename user_data/backtest_results/backtest-result.json

Use custom database

bash freqtrade plot-profit -p LTC/BTC --db-url sqlite:///tradesv3.sqlite --trade-source DB

bash freqtrade --datadir user_data/data/binance_save/ plot-profit -p LTC/BTC