Hummingbot calculates profitability by determining the portfolio value of the starting balance and the current balance in terms of the current exchange rate.
To learn more about how and why we calculate PnL:
How to measure performance in crypto trading
Different traders have different preferences for capital deployment. In this article, Hummingbot trader and community member Dalskie provides tips on capital deployment from past experience:
[Trader Tips] Capital Deployment for Hummingbot by Trader Dalskie
Some resources for you to manage your bot performance :
Simple program contributed by our user @JamesPMagic that plots the trades and provides simple performance statistics
Github repo:
https://github.com/rkc2000/Hummingbot-Postprocess
PnL Analysis Jupyter Notebook created by one of our community members
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