# Breakout Against a Paying Crowd

A built-in strategy on Central Command, tested on BloFin history. **Held up in testing.** 4H candles, long and short, 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. Go short when the 3-day average is above 0.025% and the close is below the lowest low of the previous 20.

**Managing the trade.** Close a long on a close below the lowest low of the previous 10 candles; close a short on a close above the highest high of the previous 10.

**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.

[EXACT RULES]
timeframe: 4H
long entry: AVG(FUNDING_PCT, 18) < 0
long entry: close > PRIOR_HIGH(20)
short entry: AVG(FUNDING_PCT, 18) > 0.025
short entry: close < PRIOR_LOW(20)
long exit: close < PRIOR_LOW(10)
short exit: close > PRIOR_HIGH(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 | 147 | +61.3% | 1.78 | 13.1% | 40.1% |
| Judged on | 60 | +7.1% | 1.23 | 15.3% | 30.0% |
| Whole period | 207 | +72.7% | 1.57 | 17.3% | 37.2% |

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).