Getting Started with Quant: From Wallet Setup to Your First Trade
Quant is a non custodial trading companion built for Hyperliquid perpetuals. It runs about 50 backtested technical strategies across roughly 150 Hyperliquid perp markets and seven timeframes, then surfaces only EV positive setups with a full plan attached: entry, stop loss, take profit, side, confidence, and rationale.
The core idea is simple. Quant helps you decide faster and execute better, but it does not trade for you. You still review every setup and sign every live order yourself.
What Quant actually is
Quant has three core parts.
The first is Trading, which is Quant’s main product for live signal based trading on Hyperliquid. Today, that experience is centered on the browser extension.
The second is Binary Options Agents. These AI agents paper trade BTC direction over 1 hour and 24 hour windows, giving users a live view of forecasting performance in a competitive environment.
The third is Trading Agents. These agents paper trade BTC perpetual strategies built on Quant’s backtested signal framework, with configurable strategy selection, leverage, position sizing, take profit and stop loss rules, and risk limits.
Quant is also intentionally human in the loop. Its Terms of Service describe it as a decision support tool, not a decision maker. No trade is placed, modified, or canceled without your explicit action and cryptographic signature. That is how it should be used: as a structured signal and execution layer, not as an autopilot.
Before you start
There are two practical prerequisites.
First, eligibility. Quant says users must be at least 18, and the service is not offered in restricted jurisdictions, including the United States and comprehensively sanctioned jurisdictions. You can review the details in the Terms of Service.
Second, funding. Hyperliquid supports multiple deposit routes, but if you are using the Arbitrum path, you need USDC and a small amount of ETH on Arbitrum. The ETH is only for Arbitrum deposit gas. Trading on Hyperliquid itself does not require gas. See Hyperliquid’s How to start trading guide.
Step 1: Install the extension on desktop
Quant’s published onboarding starts on desktop. Install the extension from the Chrome Web Store and sign in with Privy.
After setup, a small 3D avatar appears as an overlay. Clicking it opens the trading panel. This is the start of your trading journey, and the extension is a layer that sits on top of the sites you as a trader already use.
Step 2: Connect your wallet
Connect your wallet through Privy to start trading. You can use an existing wallet, and you can also sign in with email through Privy. Privy’s current connector set includes 20 named wallet options across EVM and Solana, with access to 100+ more through WalletConnect supported options.
Quant stays non custodial throughout the flow. As outlined in the Privacy Policy, you approve actions, you sign trades, and your private keys, seed phrases, and wallet passwords are not accessible to Quant.
That matters once you move from browsing signals to trading. Quant can surface a setup, score it, explain it, and route an order, but you still decide whether to act, how large to size the trade, whether to edit the levels, and whether to sign. Position sizing and risk tolerance remain your responsibility.
Step 3: Fund Hyperliquid (Arbitrum route)
Live trades route to Hyperliquid, so before you can trade real size, you need funded Hyperliquid collateral.
Hyperliquid supports multiple deposit routes, but this guide focuses on the Arbitrum path.
Trading on Hyperliquid is simple: connect your wallet, click Enable Trading, sign the gasless authorization, and then deposit collateral. For the Arbitrum path, the native bridge is between Hyperliquid and Arbitrum, and the required assets for that route are USDC plus ETH on Arbitrum. Once the deposit is complete, you are ready to trade.
Important: for this Arbitrum deposit flow, Hyperliquid supports only USDC deposits from Arbitrum. If you send USDT, ETH, ARB, or another token through that route, the funds will not be credited. See Hyperliquid’s Arbitrum deposit note.
The minimum credited deposit on Hyperliquid is 5 USDC. Anything below that threshold will not be credited, and for non email wallet users it may be unrecoverable. If you run into issues with deposits or transfers, refer to Hyperliquid’s).
Step 4: Find signals inside Quant
Once the extension is installed, finding signals is straightforward. Open a supported coin page, click avatar or token in the side panel of the extension, and choose your timeframe.
Quant then shows you a short ranked list of setups for that coin and timeframe. You will see the top setups, a curated set of opportunities, for the selected market and timeframe.
Each setup includes the information you need to make a decision: entry, stop loss, take profit, confidence score, rationale, and side. Quant also lets you edit levels or adjust your position size before execution.
If two strategies disagree on direction for the same coin and timeframe, Quant can show both setups instead of hiding one. It also adds a long/short balance bar to show directional tilt across the live feed.
Step 5: Check the backtest before you trust the signal
The confidence score is derived from expected value per trade using recent rolling backtests, and only setups with positive expected value are shown. See the Whitepaper for the full product framework.
EV = (WinRate × AvgWin) - (LossRate × AvgLoss) - Fees/Slippage
So the confidence score is tied to a real historical expectancy model, not a generic strength meter.
That said, a backtest is not a guarantee. A +EV backtest is a calibrated prior, not certainty, and live performance will differ from historical simulation. In other words: backtested and simulated results are hypothetical and not indicative of future results.
The right way to read a setup is this: it has shown a positive historical edge. It does not mean the next trade is supposed to win.
Freshness matters too. Quant does not leave setups on screen forever. It uses two validity rules: time to live and maximum entry drift.
Here are the published limits:
- 5 minute setups: 45 minutes and 0.25% drift
- 15 minute setups: 2 hours and 0.50% drift
- 30 minute setups: 4 hours and 0.75% drift
- 1 hour setups: 8 hours and 1.00% drift
- 4 hour setups: 48 hours and 1.75% drift
- 1 day setups: 7 days and 3.00% drift
If the price moves too far from the original entry, the setup is hidden because it is no longer the same trade. Newer setups also get a freshness bonus in ranking.
Step 6: Place your first trade
Once a setup still looks valid, the workflow is simple.
Review the confidence, rationale, and risk/reward. Check whether the current price is still close enough to the entry. Decide your size. Edit the levels if needed. Then execute.
Live orders route to Hyperliquid with the stop loss and take profit attached, and you sign the order yourself.
If you are not ready to use real capital yet, paper mode is available from day one and stays available even after live trading is enabled.
On live trades, Quant charges a 5 bps, or 0.05%, builder fee on top of normal Hyperliquid trading fees. This is collected transparently through Hyperliquid’s onchain builder code program, approved once on first use, and revocable later from Hyperliquid account settings. You can review the fee model in Quant’s Terms of Service and Whitepaper.
There are no subscription fees, hidden costs, or platform withdrawal fees.
Current execution limitations (Hyperliquid):
- You cannot hold both long and short positions on the same asset at the same time
- Managing multiple leverage levels on the same asset may be limited or inconsistent
These constraints come from the current execution model and integration with Hyperliquid and may evolve over time.
Step 7: Manage the trade properly after entry
Quant’s post entry management is practical. The sidebar is where you monitor active positions, P/L, trade history, and summary statistics.
You can track performance, adjust preferences, and view full balance and trade history.
On Hyperliquid, two mechanics matter in particular.
First, funding settles hourly and applies to position size, not margin. Check the current funding rate, its recent trend, and whether it helps or hurts your thesis whenever you plan to hold beyond a few hours. A setup that looks fine on price action can lose edge if funding becomes a meaningful carry cost.
Second, liquidations are triggered by mark price, not last price. On Hyperliquid, mark price is oracle based and can diverge from the chart price during fast moves or thinner liquidity. The practical lesson is simple: do not size a position so tightly that a small mark price divergence can liquidate you. Leave a real buffer.
Step 8: Size from risk, not from leverage
Start with risk per trade, then calculate position size, then derive leverage. Do not reverse that order.
For most users, fixed fractional sizing is the most suitable approach. 1% to 2% risk per trade is the practical range that balances growth with survival through normal variance. For more on this, see Position Sizing: The Skill That Determines Whether You Survive Long Enough to Win.
That matters because leverage changes psychology as much as math. It amplifies gains and losses, increases emotional urgency, and can destroy the edge of a good system if it pushes you into bad decisions.
Step 9: You do not need to take every signal
One of the most important things to understand is knowing when not to trade.
You may see five to ten live signals on a single asset at the same time, but taking all of them is not the goal. Doing that creates overlapping exposure and turns a structured edge into an unmanageable book.
Good use of Quant is selective and rules based, not mechanical overconsumption of every setup that appears.
Valid reasons to pass on a signal are practical: your total open risk is already at its limit, price has drifted too far from the original entry, a high impact macro event sits inside your intended holding window, or you cannot execute cleanly because of connectivity, margin, or other operational issues.
Do not skip a setup because the win rate feels low, because you are coming off a losing streak, or because the market feels uncomfortable that day.
You can also read the environment through the feed itself. The long/short ratio of live Quant signals and the Arena agent bias are real time indicators that can help you calibrate selection, sizing, and expectations. They are not meant to override the signal, but they can help you understand whether the market is trending, ranging, or transitional. A good follow up read here is Reading the Market Environment: Trending vs. Ranging Conditions.
Step 10: Desktop and mobile usage
On desktop, the extension is the primary Quant workflow. This is where you install Quant, where the avatar appears, and where you discover signals and execute trades.
Quant is also expanding beyond the extension. A web app version is being introduced, bringing trading directly into the Quant platform alongside the broader ecosystem, including Academy, Arena, Leaderboard, Referral, and performance tracking.
For mobile, there is no dedicated Quant app yet. You can either use the Quant web app version or trade through Hyperliquid’s QR based connection.
The flow is simple: connect your wallet on desktop, open Hyperliquid on your phone, choose Link Desktop Wallet, generate a QR code on desktop, sign in with your wallet extension, and scan the QR with your phone.
After that, you can monitor and manage trades from your phone. Hyperliquid documents the full flow in Connect mobile via QR code.
This is a Hyperliquid mobile flow, not a native Quant mobile experience.
Step 11: Everything else inside the Quant ecosystem
Once you are onboarded, there are three obvious places to spend time.
The first is the Academy. It covers backtesting, execution discipline, perpetual futures mechanics, funding, leverage, position sizing, variance, regime awareness, and crypto specific risk. The through line is that edge only shows up in your account if your execution is disciplined over a large enough sample. A strong next read is Your Only Job: Execute the System, especially if you want to tighten up execution and review habits.
The second is Arena. Arena is a separate paper trading competition space for AI agents, not the live trading product itself. Strong agents may eventually power or inform Quant, but Arena outputs are informational and experimental and do not place real trades or override Quant setups. That separation matters in onboarding so users do not confuse the two products.
The third is the social and incentive layer. Quant’s companion platform includes Leaderboard and points, and the public leaderboard updates hourly. Quant also runs a Referral Program that advertises up to 40% fee share, with standard affiliate tiers based on referred volume and a separate VIP track by invitation.
The right way to onboard
The best way to start with Quant is not to rush to leverage.
Start on desktop. Install the extension. Connect through Privy. Fund Hyperliquid correctly with USDC on Arbitrum. Spend time in paper mode first. Learn how to read confidence, rationale, freshness, and drift. Size from risk, not ego. Use the sidebar and analytics to review your behavior, not just your P/L.
Use Quant as your execution layer. You stay in control, while your trading becomes more structured, consistent, and easier to manage.
Further reading and references
Quant
- Homepage
- Whitepaper
- Trading Academy
- Arena
- Leaderboard
- Referral Program
- Terms of Service
- Privacy Policy
Quant Academy articles
- Your Only Job: Execute the System
- Position Sizing: The Skill That Determines Whether You Survive Long Enough to Win
- Building a Trading Routine Around Your Quant Setups
- Reading the Market Environment: Trending vs. Ranging Conditions