Bruno Breakout
The Explorer
🚀 Swing Trader 📅 62 years old (Born 1964)"New highs are not the ceiling—they're the floor for what comes next."
Weathered face with laugh lines earned in a hundred different markets. Wears cargo pants with too many pockets (each one has a chart in it).
ℹ️ Character descriptions are creative personas representing trading strategy styles. They are not financial advice, promises, or guarantees of performance.
📊 2 Years Performance: We gave Bruno Breakout $10,000 and let him trade 12 crypto symbols from Jan 2, 2024 to today. 🟢 LIVE
Quick Performance Comparison
Click any period to view detailed stats
Equity Curve (2 Years)
Combined P&L across all 12 symbols
💰 Trading Activity (2 Years)
⚠️ Important Note:
This simulation tests each symbol with its own $10K account (not pooled).
Crypto symbols can show 40-75%+ fee drag due to high trade frequency.
Stocks are FREE on Alpaca, so the ~100 stock symbols have zero fee impact.
⚙️ Trading Strategy
20-day high breakout with 2% confirmation
Waits for price to break above the 20-day high with at least 2% confirmation. Volume should spike on the breakout. Rides the trend until it breaks.
🎯 Best Suited For
Growth stocks breaking out of bases
📜 Why This Strategy Works
When a stock breaks to new highs, there's no one "trapped" overhead wanting to sell. All the bagholders are gone. The path of least resistance is up.
Mathematical Formula
CODE VERIFIED —
These formulas are extracted directly from the simulation engine and verified against the source code.
Source: scripts/run-*-simulation.php
📊 Entry Signal
📈 Entry Signal
📉 Exit Rules
⚙️ Simulation Parameters
📖 Historical Origin
Origin: William O'Neil's CANSLIM system
William O'Neil started as a stockbroker in 1958, but his system crystallized in the early 1960s. He studied every big winner for decades and found a pattern: the best stocks broke out to new highs before their biggest moves.
🏆 Top 10 Performing Symbols (2 Years)
📉 Worst 5 Performing Symbols (2 Years)
📊 All Symbol Results
Click on any row to see detailed trade history with equity curve
📖 Understanding Score & Momentum columns
Measures how well this strategy+symbol combination has performed across the entire simulation history. Based on return, win rate, drawdown control, profit factor, and trade count. Higher is better.
Measures performance over the last 30 days only. Same quality model but calibrated for short-term activity. Captures recent regime shifts that the lifetime score may miss.
🔥 Heating Up — Mom is 20+ points above Score. This symbol is performing significantly better recently than its lifetime average. Could indicate a favorable regime shift.
🧊 Cooling Off — Mom is 20+ points below Score. This symbol is underperforming recently despite a strong lifetime track record. Could indicate an unfavorable regime shift.
No icon = Steady — Scores within ±20 points. Consistent performance.
| Rank | Symbol | Score | Mom | Return | Start | Final Value | Trades | Win Rate | Fees | Net | Max DD | Avg Hold | Refunds | Last Refund | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
LINKUSD ₿
|
— | — | +42.88% | $10,000 | $14,288 | 15 | 47% | $942 | +$4,288 | -16.3% | 3.9d | ✓ | - | |
| 2 |
SOLUSD ₿
|
— | — | +25.25% | $10,000 | $12,525 | 8 | 50% | $508 | +$2,525 | -11.2% | 1.3d | ✓ | - | |
| 3 |
BTCUSD ₿
|
— | — | +20.08% | $10,000 | $12,008 | 4 | 50% | $229 | +$2,008 | -5.7% | 15.7d | ✓ | - | |
| 4 |
LTCUSD ₿
|
— | — | +3.98% | $10,000 | $10,398 | 14 | 29% | $923 | +$398 | -25.0% | 2.8d | ✓ | - | |
| 5 |
XRPUSD ₿
|
— | — | +0.84% | $10,000 | $10,084 | 23 | 35% | $1,395 | +$84 | -23.7% | 2.5d | ✓ | - | |
| 6 |
PEPEUSD ₿
|
— | — | -8.27% | $10,000 | $9,173 | 53 | 32% | $4,207 | -$827 | -57.8% | 24.0h | ✓ | - | |
| 7 |
ETHUSD ₿
|
— | — | -14.50% | $10,000 | $8,550 | 9 | 22% | $448 | -$1,450 | -25.3% | 9.7d | ✓ | - | |
| 8 |
DOGEUSD ₿
|
— | — | -15.84% | $10,000 | $8,416 | 26 | 27% | $1,749 | -$1,584 | -55.1% | 2.5d | ✓ | - | |
| 9 |
DOTUSD ₿
|
— | — | -21.34% | $10,000 | $7,866 | 6 | 17% | $288 | -$2,134 | -31.4% | 3.3d | ✓ | - | |
| 10 |
UNIUSD ₿
|
2 | — | -31.22% | $10,000 | $6,878 | 31 | 19% | $2,040 | -$3,122 | -46.2% | 2.2d | ✓ | - | |
| 11 |
AVAXUSD ₿
|
1 | — | -44.30% | $10,000 | $5,570 | 13 | 8% | $479 | -$4,430 | -40.8% | 2.8d | ✓ | - | |
| 12 |
SHIBUSD ₿
|
— | — | -55.53% | $10,000 | $4,447 | 17 | 24% | $1,413 | -$5,553 | -66.0% | 2.0d | ✓ | - |
👤 Personality
Adventurous, optimistic, curious. Believes new highs mean new possibilities. Hates when people say "it's too high to buy."