Backtest your crypto strategy before you risk real money
Test trend, momentum and other rules on Bitcoin and the largest coins since 2018, and see how they would have done against simply holding, after trading costs.
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Backtest crypto strategies
Filter on trend, momentum, RSI, volatility and liquidity, rank the coins that pass, hold the top picks, and rebalance daily, weekly, monthly or quarterly. Or time the market on Bitcoin's moving average.
No survivorship bias
A backtest only picks among the coins that were among the largest that week, not among today's winners. Testing today's top coins on the past makes almost any strategy look brilliant.
Realistic trading costs
Your exchange's fee on every trade, plus optional slippage that grows with trade size relative to each coin's daily turnover.
Find out if it was luck
Walk-forward test the optimizer so it can't use hindsight, get the Deflated Sharpe Ratio, and download every trade for Python or a spreadsheet. Methodology →
How it works
- Try a backtest right away, no account needed. Sign up with Google, free and in one click, for 50 backtests a day, favourites and live tracking.
- Pick your rules, or start from a preset such as Bitcoin trend, momentum or low volatility.
- Run the backtest and compare return, drawdown and Sharpe ratio with the benchmark. Save the good ones and follow them live.
The data: daily prices in USD for every coin that has been among the 100 largest since 2017, from CoinMarketCap, updated every day. Stablecoins, tokenized gold and wrapped coins are left out.
Backtests are simulations on historical data, not investment advice. Past results don't guarantee future returns. A few coins that no longer exist have no prices, which makes results look somewhat better than reality.
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