Highlighted changes

• Introducing Futures markets (gateio, okx and binance) - which includes short trades and leveraged trading.
• Revised strategy interface (no immediate migration necessary for spot market bots).
• Improved backtesting timeout behavior (buy timeouts are now evaluated on the proper candle).
• Webhook naming changes (sell -> exit).
• Changed behavior of custom_exit() (formerly custom_sell()) - which is now called independent of exit_profit_only.
• /forcesell now returns a list interactive trades to exit from when no parameter is specified.
• FreqUI backtesting mode (freqtrade started with freqtrade webserver) now allows loading historic backtest results.
• Recursive config loading via add_config_files.
• Recursive loading of strategies via --recursive-strategy-search.
• Remove long deprecated V1 strategy interface.
• Add CAGR calculation to backtesting metrics.
• New callback bot_start() - which get's called once per bot iteration.

Important notes

If you're looking to get started with futures trading, please make sure to read the strategy migration guide - as well as the leverage documentation page to get up to speed with the changes necessary for the new modes.

:warning: Trading futures with leverage is very risky - please make sure you understand the risks involved. freqtrade is not responsible for any losses.

How to update

As always, you can update your bot using one of the following commands:

docker-compose

docker-compose pull
docker-compose up -d

Installation via setup script

# Deactivate venv and run 
./setup.sh --update

Plain native installation

git pull
pip install -U -r requirements.txt