# Range Expansion Candle, 8H

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

## Rules

**Entry.** On a closed 8H candle whose range is more than 2 x the previous candle's 14-candle average true range: go long if it closed in the top quarter of its range, short if it closed in the bottom quarter.

**Managing the trade.** Close after 6 candles (2 days).

**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. The usual range is the simple average of the true range, so an agent with a short history measures exactly what the backtest did.

[EXACT RULES]
timeframe: 8H
long entry: high - low > 2 * AVG(TR, 14)[1]
long entry: close > high - 0.25 * (high - low)
short entry: high - low > 2 * AVG(TR, 14)[1]
short entry: close < low + 0.25 * (high - low)
stop: 2 ATR(14)
take profit: none
max bars: 6

```

## 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 | 286 | +57.1% | 1.45 | 13.5% | 53.9% |
| Judged on | 179 | +0.4% | 1.01 | 16.3% | 44.7% |
| Whole period | 465 | +57.8% | 1.25 | 21.0% | 50.3% |

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).