Quickstart
Get your first validated backtest running in under ten minutes.
Create your account
Head to quantinger.com/signup and create an account. You will be asked to accept the Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Refund Policy and Risk Disclosure before proceeding. These are not optional — crypto trading carries real financial risk and we require explicit acknowledgment.
Once signed up you land straight on the dashboard. Your workspace is ready immediately; there is no waiting period and no card required for the free tier.
Add your API key for AI (optional)
Quantinger uses a Bring Your Own Key model for AI features. To enable Quant AI, open Settings → AI Keys and add your Anthropic, OpenAI or Gemini key. Skip this and everything except Quant AI works without any key at all.
Your key is encrypted with AES-128 (Fernet) before storage. We never see it in plaintext after submission, and it is never sent anywhere except the provider you chose.
Keys are scoped to your account only. Revoking a key in Settings purges it immediately — there is no cached copy.
Build your first strategy
Navigate to Quant Lab → Strategy Lab. Pick a market and timeframe, then choose your indicators from the selector on the left. The rule builder assembles entry and exit conditions without code — every rule you add is previewed against real candles as you go.
Start simple. A two-indicator strategy with a clear exit rule will teach you more about the engine than a twelve-condition system you cannot reason about.
Run the validation
Hit Run backtest. The engine replays your rules against real exchange candles, then puts the result through seven independent gates: sample size, walk-forward efficiency, Monte Carlo survival, parameter stability, an overfitting audit, realistic execution with fees and slippage applied, and positive out-of-sample expectancy.
A full run takes about six seconds. You get a verdict, not just a chart — and if the strategy fails a gate, the report tells you exactly which one and by how much.
Most strategies fail at least one gate on the first attempt. That is the engine working correctly, not a bug.
Forward-test on paper
Passing strategies can be deployed to Paper Bots with one click. The bot trades live market data with the same fee and slippage assumptions as the backtest, so you can watch whether live results track the validated expectation.
We recommend at least thirty days of paper trading before considering any strategy for real capital.