Breakouts to new highs on heavy volume often run further than expected. Breakout Follower waits for one: when BTC rises above its highest price of the last 20 days and the last full day traded at least 1.5 times its average volume, it buys, with a USDT loan on top of your own funds. It holds while the move runs and sells everything once the price falls 8% below its recent high.
What it costs
This strategy is open on every plan - tiers set capacity, not access. Standard is free; Elite and Elite Plus raise how many assets and markets it can drive.
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How it works
On a cross margin account the strategy keeps a USDT loan open and adds it to your own funds. Every round it checks each asset you picked: once the price rises above its highest price of the breakout period, 10, 20 or 55 days, while the last full day traded at least your volume multiple of its 20-day average, it buys up to the budget per asset. It does not buy once the price is more than 3% past the old high. It sells at the best bid once the price falls your trailing stop below its recent high, the highest price of the breakout period and of the last 20 hours, read from completed candles. At your margin level floor it cancels its buys and sells at the best bid.
Key Features
Strategy profile
A snapshot of how this strategy behaves and who it suits, not a forecast of returns.
These are our assessments of strategy character, not user-specific performance figures.
Many breakouts fail: the price pokes above the high and falls back, and each one costs the trailing stop plus fees, made larger by the loan. The loan stays open while the strategy runs, so interest is charged even in the weeks between breakouts. The trailing stop follows the recent high from completed candles, so a sharp drop inside a candle can sell lower than the stop suggests. Breakouts on high volume are rare, so expect long quiet stretches.
All figures on this page are simulated or historical backtest results, shown for information and education only. They are not real customer results, they do not include your specific fees and slippage, and past performance does not guarantee future returns. Your capital is at risk.
Frequently Asked Questions
Quick glossary
Definitions for the trading terms used on this page.
- Backtest
- A simulation of how a strategy would have performed on historical price data. Past results never guarantee future returns - markets change.
- Slippage
- The difference between the price you expect and the price you actually get when an order fills. Worse on illiquid pairs and during fast markets.
- Spread
- The gap between the best buy price (bid) and the best sell price (ask). Tight spreads = liquid market, wider spreads = more cost per round trip.
- Stop-loss
- An automatic exit order that closes a losing position when price hits a chosen threshold. Caps how much one bad trade can hurt you.
- Take-profit
- An automatic exit order that closes a winning position once price reaches a chosen target. Locks in gains without relying on you to watch the chart.
- Volatility
- How sharply price moves. High volatility = bigger swings in both directions, which means more opportunity but also more drawdown risk.
Want to catch the big breakouts?
Every new Margin Breakout Follower starts in paper trading: its orders are kept on paper and listed on the strategy page, and a paper run stops by itself after an hour.
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