ATH / 52W High Breakout Strategy

ATH / 52W High Breakout Strategy at a glance

Kind of rule	Breakout
Buys or sells	It only buys. It does not bet on falling prices.
Built on	ATR, EMA
Where it was published	TradingView, by its author, as a Pine Script strategy
Tested on	50 cells: 15 coins, October 2021 to June 2026, no fee
Cells that placed a trade	46 of 50
Middle result before fees	+0.0%
Cells above zero	0 of 46
Middle drawdown before fees	20.5%
Page updated	2026-11-08

ATH / 52W High Breakout Strategy backtest results, every cell

Every cell is in the picture, not only the strongest. To the right of the black line is above zero. The orange line, when you see one, is the middle.

How ATH / 52W High Breakout Strategy works

Rules in this group usually work like this. It buys when price pokes above a recent high, and it bets on a fall when price pokes under a recent low. It is wrong often. It pays for those false starts with the few times price keeps going. How far back it looks decides how many pokes it takes. The next paragraph is this particular rule, which can be narrower than the group.

It only buys. It does not bet on falling prices. It acts only when several checks agree at once. It leans on ATR, EMA; those names are explained on their own pages, further down. The exact line is in the list below, in the author's names, and you can skip that list. When it enters, it also sets a stop or a target, so a trade can close without a new signal.

Each trade uses the whole account. It holds one trade at a time.

The exact condition, from the code

Same rule, translated from the code, in the author's names. You can skip this list if the paragraph above was enough.

• Enters long when (Use All-Time High (on) and the close is above the previous ath or Use 52-Week High (on) and the close is above the previous weekly high).
• Places a stop at (the average entry price − (the 14-period ATR × ATR Multiplier (2))) when not (Use EMA Exit Instead of ATR (off)).
• Closes the position when Use EMA Exit Instead of ATR (off) and a long position is open and the close is below the 20-period EMA of the close.

Buys or sells	It only buys. It does not bet on falling prices.
Tools it calculates	ATR, EMA
A second chart speed	Yes. It also looks at a second chart speed.
Only at certain hours	No.
Adding to a trade	It holds one trade at a time.
How much it trades	Each trade uses the whole account.
Cost the author assumed	The author assumed no trading cost.

Default settings

The test used the defaults in the middle column. Nothing was turned to help a coin.

Setting	Default	Group
Use All-Time High	on
Use 52-Week High	on
ATR Length	14
ATR Multiplier	2
Use EMA Exit Instead of ATR	off
EMA Length for Exit	20

How the backtest was run

Every strategy was tried the same way, on the settings the author published.

The years are October 2021 to June 2026. The prices are from Bybit, for 13 widely traded coins, mostly on hourly, 4-hour and daily charts, with some faster charts. That was 47,242 tries. The window stored in the files is 2021-09..2026-06.

599 rules produced a finished try. A rule that finished above zero on at least 12 cells, before any fee, was tried again with a fee of 0.12 percent per side. Only buys are counted in that second try. 273 rules got it.

The method, the aggregate results and a downloadable table are on the study page. What the desk does with the results beyond these pages is its own.

Before any fee, it was tried on 50 cells. It placed a trade on 46 of them. 0 of the cells that traded finished above zero (0.0%).

It was not run a second time with a fee. That second pass happens only when at least 12 cells finished above zero before fees. 273 rules got that pass.

Cells tried	50
Cells that placed a trade	46
Finished above zero	0 (0.0% of the cells that traded)
Middle result, before fees	+0.0%
Strongest cell, the top of the range	AVAX daily: +0.0%
Weakest cell, the bottom of the range	XRP 4-hour: −7.0%
Middle drawdown, before fees	20.5%

Label: backtest · old prices, zero commission · Oct 2021 – Jun 2026. Hypothetical results; see the risk disclosure.

How to read the result

How to read the number

The median of every cell that traded is the result. No fee has been taken off, so the number is a ceiling. A fee comes off each trade, and this page does not guess that cost, because this rule did not get the second pass where the fee is applied. The weakest and the strongest cells are not a result on their own.

The middle drawdown, on the cells that traded, was 20.5%.

What this does not show

The useful question is what the false starts cost. Count the trades, not the one that kept going.

Nothing on this page was fit to the cell that finished highest. One coin, one chart speed, or one strong stretch is a single row. It is not the rule. Other years, another exchange, or another fee would be a different measurement.

Questions about ATH / 52W High Breakout Strategy

Words used on this page

Backtest

The rule was tried on old prices. No real money moved.

Cell

One coin on one chart speed. Bitcoin every 4 hours is one cell. Bitcoin once a day is another.

Chart speed

How often a new price bar is drawn. 15m means every 15 minutes, 1h means hourly, 4h means every 4 hours, 1D means once a day.

Fee, per side

A cost taken each time the rule trades. Per side means once on the way in and once on the way out.

Median

Line the cells up from the biggest loss to the biggest gain. The median is the middle one. Half the cells did better and half did worse.

Drawdown

The deepest fall from a high point along the way, as a percent of the account at that high.

Above zero

The account finished with more than it started.

The indicators ATH / 52W High Breakout Strategy uses

Each has its own page: what it measures, how it is read, where it misleads.

• ATR (average true range): the volatility number behind most stops
• Exponential moving average (EMA): what it measures and where it misleads

"ATH / 52W High Breakout Strategy" was published on TradingView by its author, under the author's own license. This page is an independent reading of those rules and of what they did on these old prices. It is not written with the author, and it is not a recommendation. Not every detail survives the translation onto this page, so read the original before you rely on it.