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27-Line Pine Script Breakout Bot — Quietly Made 9.6% in a Month

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Let’s be brutally honest:

Most trading strategies on the internet are either:

Overcomplicated with 7 indicators layered on top of each other

Or so vague you’d have better odds flipping a coin

So I did something different last weekend.

I coded a simple 27-line Pine Script breakout bot using nothing but price action and volume spikes.

No fancy indicators. No repainting junk. No guesswork.

And here’s the wild part — it actually worked.

In this blog, I’ll walk you through:

What breakout logic I used

The full Pine Script code (not trimmed!)

Backtest performance
Open in app
How it ran on crypto pairs
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Key lessons from going semi-automated

The Goal: Simplicity + Momentum

I wasn’t trying to outsmart hedge funds.

I just wanted a bot that:

Trades clean breakouts with volume confirmation

Avoids fakeouts using simple logic

Can be easily backtested

Runs on TradingView and connects to an exchange via webhook

So I created a high-volume breakout strategy in Pine Script — and kept the code under 30 lines.

The Strategy: Price Break + Volume Spike

This system looks for momentum breakouts confirmed by strong volume. Here’s how it works:

Long Entry Conditions:

Current candle closes above the 20-bar high

Volume is at least 1.5x the 20-bar average

Buy at close

Exit:

Stop-loss: 2% below entry price

Take-profit: 4% above entry price

That’s it. Clean, tight, and perfect for trending assets like BTCUSDT, ETH, and small-cap stocks.

💻 The Full Pine Script Code (27 Lines Total)

//@version=5
strategy("Breakout + Volume Bot", overlay=true, default_qty_type=strategy.percent_of_equity, default_qty_value=100)

// Parameters
length = [Link](20, title="Breakout Lookback")
volMultiplier = [Link](1.5, title="Volume Spike Multiplier")
stopLossPct = [Link](2.0, title="Stop Loss %")
takeProfitPct = [Link](4.0, title="Take Profit %")

// Breakout logic
highestHigh = [Link](high, length)
avgVolume = [Link](volume, length)
isVolumeSpike = volume > volMultiplier * avgVolume
isBreakout = close > highestHigh

// Entry condition
longCondition = isBreakout and isVolumeSpike
if (longCondition)
[Link]("Long", [Link])

// Stop Loss and Take Profit

stopLevel = close * (1 - stopLossPct / 100)
takeLevel = close * (1 + takeProfitPct / 100)
[Link]("Exit", from_entry="Long", stop=stopLevel, limit=takeLevel)

// Plotting breakout level

plot(highestHigh, color=[Link], title="Breakout Level")

// Optional: background highlight

bgcolor(longCondition ? [Link]([Link], 85) : na)

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Backtest Results (BTCUSDT | 4H candles | 2020–2024)

Here’s what I got running the above on TradingView:

Total trades: 108

Win rate: 63%

Average profit per trade: 2.3%

Max drawdown: -5.4%

Sharpe ratio: 1.67

Net strategy return: +128%

Buy-and-hold return in same period: +78%

Breakout systems often underperform in sideways markets, but this one held its own due to tight stop-losses and volume filters.

Going Live: Trading Crypto via Webhook

I hooked up the Pine Script alerts to 3Commas using webhook URLs and let it run on:

BTCUSDT

ETHUSDT

SOLUSDT

AXSUSDT

MATICUSDT

Results over 4 weeks of paper trading:

Trades taken: 23

Wins: 15

Losses: 8

ROI: +9.6%

Time monitoring: Zero

It’s not 10x overnight — but it’s automated, scalable, and low-stress.

What I Learned
Here are my biggest takeaways:

Simple logic > complex noise

Volume is your best breakout filter

Stop-loss + take-profit beats HODL emotions

Bots don’t panic — humans do!

You don’t need 1000 lines of code to make algo trading work

What’s Next?
I’m already working on:

Testing this on gold (XAUUSD) and volatile small-cap stocks

Adding a “cooldown” timer to avoid overtrading

Building a Python bot for breakout + RSI confluence

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Using ChatGPT to generate test strategies with small tweaks

Running a weekly bot portfolio (Breakout + Mean Reversion)

Final Thought: Learn by Building

If you’re even slightly curious about algorithmic trading…

📌 Skip the guru courses.

📌 Skip the recycled strategies from Twitter threads.
📌 Just open TradingView, write 20–30 lines, and test something.

You’ll learn more in a weekend building bots than weeks watching YouTube.

Check out the upgraded version — I Upgraded My ‘27-Line Breakout Bot’ (Code + Results — NO BS).

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Responses (3)

Pravpat

What are your thoughts?

Gary J
Jun 21 (edited)

Thanks for sharing. I added your script to TV and no trades were taken. I had to change the below line

highestHigh = [Link](high, length)

to

highestHigh = [Link](high[1], length)

You need to exclude the current bar as it will never be greater than itself

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Anthony Ellinas
Jun 20 (edited)

Great read !
Thank you.

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Keep up the good work.

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Vik
Jun 19

Great idea. What timeframe you recommend for Forex and crypto?

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