Crypto Overview

Impulse IQ works, and you can prove it yourself.

Impulse IQ comes with its own backtester, allowing you to verify the accuracy of Impulse IQ before deciding to use it.

Tip

For quick verification of Impulse IQ's performance, just take a look at the top-right table showing the profit factor for longs and for shorts.

Settings

All cryptocurrency performance tests will use the following settings:

A slippage of 2 ticks is used. These settings are used to account for real-world trading conditions and better simulate a realistic application of Impulse IQ. Our backtests will take place in highly-liquid markets, so it's realistic to leave "Verify Price For Limit Orders" at 0 ticks. In less liquid markets, where an order might not fill immediately, it's important to use this setting!

Additionally, we chose an initial balance of $1000 and using 100% of capital per trade. These conditions were selected to show the effects of compounding performance and simulate common leverage amounts such as 20x, 50x, 100x.

Note

You have complete control over verifying the accuracy of Impulse IQ. You can change the commission value to the real commissions you pay, increase slippage, and more.

Tip

When looking at backtest data, the dollar-amount profit and dollar-amount drawdown are less important than other metrics, as the raw-dollar amount profit and raw-dollar amount drawdown are highly specific to the trader's balance. Instead, it's more important to evaluate percentage metrics and ratio metrics, such as the profit percentage, profit factor, and drawdown percentage - these metrics are relatively consistent across various balances. Additionally, risk-performance metrics such as the Sharpe Ratio are good indications of a strategy's viability.

Note

All of our backtests will show a green line. The green line is the performance of Impulse IQ. Some of our backtests will include a blue line. The blue line is the buy-and-hold performance of the asset. What's important here is that the green equity curve (Impulse IQ) outperforms the blue equity curve (asset). If it does, this means Impulse IQ is more profitable than simply buying the asset and holding it!