# Quiet Market Breakout, 8H

A built-in strategy on Central Command, tested on BloFin history. **Held up in testing.** 8H candles, long and short, category Volatility.

## Rules

**Entry.** On a closed 8H candle, when the previous candle's ATR(14) as a percent of price ranked below the 30th percentile of the last 540 candles (180 days): go long on a close above the highest high of the previous 30 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 45 candles (15 days) at most.

**Stop and target.** Stop 2 x ATR(14) on the 8H chart from the entry. No fixed target.

## Exact rules

```text

8H candles close at 00:00, 08:00 and 16:00 UTC, so a signal is checked three times a day.

[EXACT RULES]
timeframe: 8H
long entry: PERCENT_RANK(NATR(14), 540)[1] < 30
long entry: close > PRIOR_HIGH(30)
short entry: PERCENT_RANK(NATR(14), 540)[1] < 30
short entry: close < PRIOR_LOW(30)
stop: 2 ATR(14)
take profit: none
trailing stop: 3 ATR(14) after 1R
max bars: 45

```

## 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 | 102 | +30.6% | 1.56 | 12.2% | 49.0% |
| Judged on | 79 | +44.5% | 2.18 | 9.4% | 50.6% |
| Whole period | 181 | +88.8% | 1.85 | 12.2% | 49.7% |

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).