# Double Bottom 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 Market Structure.

## Rules

**Entry.** Swings use 5 candles each side. On a closed 4H candle, go long when the last two swing lows are within 0.5 x ATR(14) of each other, the last swing high sits more than 2 ATR above them, and the close crosses above that swing high. Double tops mirror it for shorts.

**Managing the trade.** Close after 40 candles at most.

**Stop and target.** Stop a quarter ATR beyond the lower of the two lows (long) or the higher of the two highs (short). Target: the pattern's height added to the breakout level (the measured move).

## Exact rules

```text

timeframe: 4H
long entry: ABS(SWING_LOW(5) - SWING_LOW(5, 1)) < 0.5 * ATR(14)
long entry: SWING_HIGH(5) - MIN(SWING_LOW(5), SWING_LOW(5, 1)) > 2 * ATR(14)
long entry: CROSS_UP(close, SWING_HIGH(5))
short entry: ABS(SWING_HIGH(5) - SWING_HIGH(5, 1)) < 0.5 * ATR(14)
short entry: MAX(SWING_HIGH(5), SWING_HIGH(5, 1)) - SWING_LOW(5) > 2 * ATR(14)
short entry: CROSS_DOWN(close, SWING_LOW(5))
long stop: MIN(SWING_LOW(5), SWING_LOW(5, 1)) - 0.25 * ATR(14)
short stop: MAX(SWING_HIGH(5), SWING_HIGH(5, 1)) + 0.25 * ATR(14)
long target: 2 * SWING_HIGH(5) - MIN(SWING_LOW(5), SWING_LOW(5, 1))
short target: 2 * SWING_LOW(5) - MAX(SWING_HIGH(5), SWING_HIGH(5, 1))
max bars: 40

```

## 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 | 192 | +27.3% | 1.55 | 4.9% | 66.2% |
| Judged on | 141 | +9.2% | 1.21 | 7.9% | 58.9% |
| Whole period | 333 | +39.0% | 1.37 | 7.9% | 63.1% |

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).