Bollinger Breakout

Catch the move. Ride the trend. Exit with discipline.

Bollinger Breakout is a momentum EA that enters the market when price breaks out of the upper Bollinger Band and is above a long-term SMA — two conditions that together confirm both volatility expansion and trend direction. No guesswork, no indicator soup. Just a clean, rules-based system that waits for the market to show its hand before pulling the trigger.

How it works

• Entry: Price closes above the upper Bollinger Band (20, 1.0 std dev) and above the SMA 200 — momentum confirmed by trend
• Stop Loss: Set at the lower Bollinger Band at the time of entry — wide enough to breathe, tight enough to protect
• Exit: Price closes below the middle band (SMA 20) — the trend is losing steam, get out

Simple. Repeatable. Testable.

Built for speed and reliability

• Bar-close logic only — all decisions are made on closed candles. No tick noise, no overtrading. Backtests run at full speed on OHLC M1 data
• Retry logic with exponential backoff — transient broker errors (requotes, timeouts, connection drops) are retried automatically, so you never miss a fill due to a bad tick
• EnforceBrokerSL — stop loss is automatically clamped to the broker's minimum distance, so orders never get rejected due to stops level violations
• Risk management — choose between % of balance or a fixed base money amount. Optional max lot cap for extra safety

What you see on the chart

A clean dark HUD panel shows everything at a glance:

• Account balance and equity
• Day P/L and total P/L (with % vs initial and current balance)
• Win rate, trade count, wins/losses
• Live Bollinger Band values (upper, mid, lower) and SMA 200
• Current signal state: WAIT / ENTRY / HOLD / EXIT
• Estimated P/L if stop loss is hit
• Running R:R on open positions
• Retry queue status

Works well on

• USDJPY — clean trending moves with defined ranges
• CRUDE OIL — strong directional momentum during supply/demand events
• BTCUSD — volatile breakouts with high follow-through potential

Recommended timeframes: H1, H4

Key settings

Notes

• Long-only strategy — trades with the trend, not against it
• One position at a time per symbol
• Fully compatible with prop firms
• No martingale, no grid, no averaging

Part of the equinox EA suite.