# Bollinger Squeeze Breakout

A built-in strategy on Central Command, tested on BloFin history. **Held up on its coins, not on others.** 4H candles, long and short, category Volatility.

## Rules

**Entry.** On a closed 4H candle, when the Bollinger Band (20, 2) width hit its lowest of the last 180 candles at some point in the last 6 candles: go long when the close crosses above the upper band, short when it crosses below the lower band.

**Managing the trade.** Once 1R in profit, a 3 x ATR(14) trailing stop follows the trade. Close after 60 candles at most.

**Stop and target.** Stop 2 x ATR(14) from the entry. No fixed target.

## Exact rules

```text

timeframe: 4H
long entry: ANY(BB_WIDTH(20, 2) <= LOWEST(180, BB_WIDTH(20, 2)), 6)
long entry: CROSS_UP(close, BB_UPPER(20, 2))
short entry: ANY(BB_WIDTH(20, 2) <= LOWEST(180, BB_WIDTH(20, 2)), 6)
short entry: CROSS_DOWN(close, BB_LOWER(20, 2))
trailing stop: 3 ATR(14) after 1R
stop: 2 ATR(14)
take profit: none
max bars: 60

```

## How it tested

Settings were chosen on 2023-10-01 to 2025-08-01, then judged once on 2025-08-01 to 2026-10-19, which was not looked at while choosing. Figures are after fees, on BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, BNB.

| | Trades | Return | Profit factor | Worst drop | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chosen on | 103 | +4.8% | 1.09 | 14.5% | 37.9% |
| Judged on | 80 | +42.5% | 1.95 | 16.5% | 38.8% |
| Whole period | 183 | +49.4% | 1.50 | 16.5% | 38.3% |

Holding Bitcoin over the same judged period returned -29.0%.

A backtest is not a result. Past results, paper or live, do not guarantee future returns.

Run these rules as your own [agent](/agents/new), on paper first, or see the rest of the [strategy library](/strategies/library).