Crypto quant,
explained.
Guides and a working glossary for traders who want to backtest properly — funding, leverage, liquidation, and the metrics that survive out-of-sample.
Guides
- How liquidation works on crypto perps — and how to avoid it
Liquidation is the forced close that wipes your margin when the market moves against a leveraged position. Here is exactly how it triggers and how to stay clear of it.
- From plain English to a backtestable strategy
How Quantle turns a one-line market idea into a leverage-and-funding-aware walk-forward backtest and a $100k virtual trading desk.
- Position sizing & risk management for leveraged crypto
Why the size of each trade decides whether you survive long enough to be right, and how to calculate it correctly in leveraged crypto markets.
- Reading a backtest: Sharpe, drawdown, and the metrics that matter
Total return tells you almost nothing. Here is how to read backtest output correctly using Sharpe, Sortino, max drawdown, CAGR, and out-of-sample tests.
- What is walk-forward backtesting (and why it matters for crypto)
A single in-sample backtest flatters every strategy. Walk-forward testing reveals whether your edge actually holds on data the model never saw.
- Funding rates explained: how perpetual futures really cost you
Funding rates are the periodic payments that tether a perpetual future to spot. Here is how they work, how to annualize them, and why they decide whether a leveraged position is profitable.