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Siarhei Siniak
Siarhei Siniak

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Trade binance futures with freqtrade

Freqtrade is a standalone platform. It supports data acquisition, indicators and expert advisors (strategies). You may use backtest with fixed parameters as well as apply optimization to boost the performance. Spot market as well as derivatives usage has been built in.

Beginners may rely on functional web interface. Advanced users may utilize command line interface.

Check config.json to be configured for futures:

  1. trading mode
        "trading_mode": "futures",

        "margin_mode": "isolated",
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  1. exchange pairs
        "exchange": {
            "name": "binance",
            "sandbox": true,
            "key": "your_exchange_key",
            "secret": "your_exchange_secret",
            "password": "",
            "log_responses": false,
            "ccxt_config": {},
            "ccxt_async_config": {},
            "pair_whitelist": [
                "BTC/USDT",
                "ETH/USDT"
            ],
            "outdated_offset": 5,
            "markets_refresh_interval": 60
        }
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Leverage trading requires a custom strategy. For details inspect freqtrade/strategy/interface.py

Read the full article at https://product-development-service.blogspot.com/2022/06/trade-binance-futures-with-freqtrade.html

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