Compare strategies on identical data

Goal

Identify candidates for further study without ranking by return alone.

Steps

1. Pin historical data, timerange, and trading settings; document each strategy’s parameter differences. [backtest]
2. Run freqtrade backtesting --strategy-list StrategyA StrategyB --timeframe 5m --timerange 20230101-20250101. [backtest]
3. Compare net profit, max drawdown, trade count, holding time, and exit reasons; retain each full report. [backtest]

How to verify

All strategies used the same range, data, and starting balance, enabling metric-by-metric comparison.

Troubleshooting

If strategy config overrides CLI settings, inspect effective config; do not select by total profit alone.