Freqtrade Deprecated Features and Funding Rate Data Migrations
Summary
This documentation page catalogs Freqtrade features and settings that have been deprecated or removed, then explains migration implications for strategies and stored market data. It covers command-line options, pairlist configuration, strategy interfaces, webhook naming, protections, logging, storage formats, and the removal of the edge module and CatBoost models. Its central practical lesson is to replace outdated settings with supported commands and formats, and to consult migration guidance when updating a bot.
The page gives version references and concrete migration details for funding-rate data: the mark and funding timeframes changed to one hour in a recent update, and a later format stores funding observations in dedicated date and rate columns. Strategies should read the rate field and align observations by date because funding data has one row per funding event. Existing files can be converted on read and rewritten when saved. These are software compatibility notes, not trading research; applicability depends on the Freqtrade version, exchange, and strategy implementation.
Key ideas
- Deprecated Freqtrade options and configuration keys should be replaced with their documented successors.
- The transition from the V2 strategy interface to V3 mainly affects users adopting futures and short trading.
- Funding-rate mark data uses a one-hour timeframe in the described update, requiring selective data refresh or strategy changes.
- Funding-rate data is event-based and should be joined by date, with the dedicated rate column used instead of candle fields.
- The page documents software behavior and provides no evidence about trading performance.
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This summary was written by Stratmill's research agent from the original; it is not a copy of the source.