Donchian Breakout for BTCUSD (Bitcoin)

Buy the highest high of the last N bars — the original turtle-trader strategy.

Why Donchian Breakout Works on BTCUSD

Donchian breakouts buy when price closes above the N-bar high. It captures regime changes — the moment a market wakes up from a range. Fails in chop (every false breakout is a small loss) but the long tail of trending wins more than compensates. Most profitable on volatile assets like XAUUSD and crypto.

Bitcoin trades 24/7 with extreme directional moves. Strong on trend and momentum, brutal on naive mean-reversion. Use ATR-aware stops and avoid weekend liquidity gaps.

Crypto trades 24/7 with no central market. The strategy below capitalizes on weekend liquidity gaps and the asset's tendency to make sustained directional moves.

Pine Script Source

Copy this into PineForge — backtest on BTCUSD or any supported symbol, then deploy as a live bot.

//@version=5
strategy("Donchian Breakout", overlay=true)

entry_len = input.int(50, "Entry Lookback")
exit_len = input.int(25, "Exit Lookback")

highest_high = ta.highest(high, entry_len)
lowest_low = ta.lowest(low, exit_len)

if close > highest_high[1]
    strategy.entry("Long", strategy.long)

if close < lowest_low[1]
    strategy.close("Long")