# Quiet Market Breakout, 4H

A built-in strategy on Central Command, tested on BloFin history. **Held up in testing.** 4H candles, long and short, category Volatility.

## Rules

**Entry.** On a closed 4H candle, when the previous candle's 14-candle average true range as a percent of price ranked below the 30th percentile of the last 1,080 candles (180 days): go long on a close above the highest high of the previous 20 candles, short on a close below their lowest low.

**Managing the trade.** Once 1R in profit, a 3 x ATR(14) trailing stop follows the trade. Close after 60 candles (10 days) at most.

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

## Exact rules

```text

Volatility here is the simple average of the true range, so an agent reading a short history measures exactly what the backtest did.

[EXACT RULES]
timeframe: 4H
long entry: PERCENT_RANK(100 * AVG(TR, 14) / close, 1080)[1] < 30
long entry: close > PRIOR_HIGH(20)
short entry: PERCENT_RANK(100 * AVG(TR, 14) / close, 1080)[1] < 30
short entry: close < PRIOR_LOW(20)
stop: 2 ATR(14)
take profit: none
trailing stop: 3 ATR(14) after 1R
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 | 273 | +74.6% | 1.42 | 15.2% | 41.0% |
| Judged on | 205 | +49.3% | 1.31 | 30.9% | 33.2% |
| Whole period | 478 | +160.2% | 1.35 | 30.9% | 37.7% |

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).