Backtrader doesn't display time when backtesting

Question

I am trying to backtest a strategy with Backtrader (not the first time) and have a problem while printing date & time for each iteration (time stay on 23:59:59). Here are the first lines of my dataset:

What is printed on the console :

And finally how I load my data :

data = bt.feeds.GenericCSVData(dataname="BTCUSD_15MIN.csv",
                           datetime=0,
                           fromdate=datetime.datetime(2015,1,13),
                           todate=datetime.datetime(2015,1,15),
                           open=1,
                           high=2,
                           low=3,
                           close=4,
                           openinterest=-1,
                           time=-1,
                           volume=-1,
                           dtformat="%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

Has someone already got this issue? Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

That for sure only solved your problem by chance (because what you chose is smaller than the actual reality)

Your data is obviously 15-minutes based. But without specification, you let the default values in place: bt.TimeFrame.Daily, which gives you the end of the day for each bar. No surprises there.

The right choice would therefore be:

timeframe=bt.TimeFrame.Minutes,
compression=15,

This is explained in the backtrader community in several posts and in the FAQ.

• FAQ: https://community.backtrader.com/topic/381/faq
• One post with the same content: https://community.backtrader.com/topic/244/backtesting-1-minute-data/

Answer 2

Answer: This is the line that sorted out my issue :

timeframe=bt.TimeFrame.Ticks

If interested in the strategy results, it's here.