# Volatility Breakout, Hourly Entry

A built-in strategy on Central Command, tested on BloFin history. **Thin edge in testing.** 1H candles, long and short, category Volatility.

## Rules

**Entry.** On a closed 1H candle up to 20:00 UTC, go long when the close crosses above today's open (yesterday's daily close) plus 0.6 x yesterday's high-to-low range, if yesterday closed above its daily SMA(50). Go short when the close crosses below the open minus 0.6 x that range, if yesterday closed below its daily SMA(50).

**Managing the trade.** Close at the end of the UTC day (the open of 00:00). One trade per coin per day.

**Stop and target.** Stop back at today's open. No fixed target: the end of the day closes it.

## Exact rules

```text

timeframe: 1H
long entry: HOUR <= 20
long entry: CROSS_UP(close, close@1D + 0.6 * (high - low)@1D)
long entry: close@1D > SMA(50)@1D
short entry: HOUR <= 20
short entry: CROSS_DOWN(close, close@1D - 0.6 * (high - low)@1D)
short entry: close@1D < SMA(50)@1D
long stop: close@1D
short stop: close@1D
take profit: none
exit: HOUR == 23
cooldown: 24

```

## 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 | 745 | +30.0% | 1.10 | 19.0% | 44.7% |
| Judged on | 504 | +1.8% | 1.01 | 32.2% | 42.5% |
| Whole period | 1249 | +32.4% | 1.06 | 32.2% | 43.8% |

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).