How To Use The Counter Strike IQ Backtester
The Counter Strike IQ backtester is your personal tool to prove that Counter Strike IQ works. With the Counter Strike IQ backtester you can backtest any asset/timeframe combination, and even create your own Counter Strike IQ strategy to set alerts for!
Note
While Counter Strike IQ will always trade optimally, using the Counter Strike IQ backtester allows
you to replicate Counter Strike IQ’s performance while skipping all the chart visualizations.
Traders can deep dive into statistics with the backtester, export Counter Strike IQ trades to an
excel file, set alerts, and much more!
How To Use The Counter Strike IQ Backtester
As complex as Counter Strike IQ’s underlying processes are, the backtester is incredibly simple to use.
Step 1: Go to the asset/timeframe you wish to test.
For this example we will use the 30-minute chart for BTCUSDT.P!
Step 2: Choose Counter Strike IQ’s trade direction and stop loss type.
For this example, we’ll leave the Stop Loss Learning Type at “Auto” and trade both directions.
Optional Change the Min TP/SL ATR setting. This setting forces Counter Strike IQ to use a greater minimum profit target and stop loss. You’ll probably never have to change this setting on higher timeframes, but on very low timeframes such as the 1m, you’ll likely have to increase the minimum ATR profit setting so profits exceed commissions paid.
Step 3: Enter the Best Strategy Number and Best Stop Loss Type
There’s quite a bit going on here so let’s cover it extensively!
In this image, the Counter Strike IQ backtester has finished finding optimized settings for BTCUSDT.P 30m. The top-right table shows the optimal settings for the long strategy and the short strategy of Counter Strike IQ.
The Counter Strike IQ backtester has four adjustable settings for longs and shorts.
- Best Long Strategy Number
- Stop Type Long
- Best Short Strategy Number
- Stop Type Short
The optimal Long Strategy Number setting is shown in the upper-right table. That value is “1620”.
As shown in the image, we entered “1620” into the Best Long Strategy Number setting for the Counter Strike IQ backtester.
The optimal Short Strategy Number setting is shown in the top-right table. That value is “1548”. As shown in the image, we entered “1548” into the Best Strategy Number Short setting for the Counter Strike IQ backtester.
Should the incorrect settings be entered into the backtester, a warning will be displayed advising you to change the settings to the correct settings. When no warning is displayed - the backtester settings are correctly configured.
Note
The “PF” column of the table indicates the optimized settings scored profit factor. The higher
this number is - the better!
Step 4: Enter Commissions and Slippage Go to the “Properties” table in the Counter Strike IQ Settings and change contract size, initial balance, commission, slippage, etc.
For this example, we’re using a fee of 0.2%, 2 ticks slippage, $1000 starting balance. You can experiment with compounding and other portfolio tricks in this table!
Step 5: Evaluate Backtest Performance
Voila! We successfully verified the performance of Counter Strike IQ in just a few minutes. You can repeat this process for any asset on any timeframe.