# Breakout While Shorts Pay, Long Only

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

## Rules

**Entry.** On a closed 4H candle, go long when the average funding rate of the last 3 days (18 candles) is below 0% and the close is above the highest high of the previous 20 candles. Long only.

**Managing the trade.** Close on a 4H close below the lowest low of the previous 10 candles.

**Stop and target.** Stop 2.5 x ATR(14) from the entry. No fixed target.

## Exact rules

```text

Funding is BloFin's settled rate, in percent per 8 hours, averaged over the candles.

A long-only sibling of Breakout Against a Paying Crowd (squeeze-breakout-funding), from the v3 rule in scripts/library-research/catalog-extra/v3-siblings.ts: in-sample (1 Oct 2023 to 31 Jul 2025), at its chosen setting, Breakout Against a Paying Crowd's longs made +66.5% and its shorts -7.7% (summed trade results as a share of the $10,000 start). The rules are the parent's with the short side removed; its own setting was chosen in-sample like every other.

[EXACT RULES]
timeframe: 4H
direction: long only
long entry: AVG(FUNDING_PCT, 18) < 0
long entry: close > PRIOR_HIGH(20)
long exit: close < PRIOR_LOW(10)
stop: 2.5 ATR(14)
take profit: none

```

## 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 | 37 | +70.2% | 5.42 | 9.4% | 51.4% |
| Judged on | 41 | +12.2% | 1.58 | 13.2% | 31.7% |
| Whole period | 78 | +90.9% | 2.76 | 14.5% | 41.0% |

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).