BTC Breakout Expert Advisor (EA) is an automated trading software which runs inside MetaTrader 4 (MT4). It opens, manages, and closes trades completely automatically according to its coded strategy — in this case, breakout trading on BTCUSD CFDs. You do not need to place trades manually.
Only you have access to deposit or withdraw money. Neither the EA developer nor the cloud-copying service can ever touch your funds. Our cloud execution partner only receives trade-only permissions (via trading password or limited trade-copy rights). Withdrawals are done by you directly in your broker’s client portal. Due to strict Anti-money Laundering procedures brokers will only accept withdrawals back to the source of funds deposited so there is a double layer of protection using our software.
Leverage lets you control a large position with a small amount of money. You are required to open a 500:1 leverage broker account. But, because BTC Breakout uses fixed sizing of 0.02 lots at $1,000 of balance, the real effective leverage is usually plus minus 9.5:1 depending on the current Bitcoin price but the full 500:1 is required to maintain margin requirements.
500:1 is required to maintain margin requirements.
No, our EA settings do not permit any manual trading or interference on the trading account which is connected to our EA — mixing manual trades with the EA can destroy the risk model and cause overlapping positions, ultimately leading to a potential total loss of funds.
No. This is NOT fund management or an investment fund. Your money stays in your own broker account under your full control. We do not pool funds and we are not regulated as an asset manager. We operate as a software provider and offer software solutions only.
The software is an expert advisor that runs on a instantaneous cloud based software with market leading server locations and speeds. It opens, modifies, or closes a trades with proportionate lot sizing relevant to the user trading balance.
MyFXBook is an independent third-party tracking platform. When connected via investor (read-only) password, it verifies real trading results. All our live tracks are MyFXBook-verified or broker investor-password links – no Photoshop, no demo accounts, no fake balances.
Absolutely, and we encourage it. It’s free and gives you full transparency and insight into how your account is performing!
The user has two risk setting to choose from at the the set up process dependant on their risk appetite. We encourage all users to carefully go over the statistics on advance and choose the risk setting that is most suited to them. We cannot give any advice on this. Once connected to the risk of choice, the cloud software automatically calculates lot sizes based on your current balance. No settings arrangement is needed from your side, these parameters are already built into the software.
Drawdown is the peak-to-trough decline in your account balance. A 30 % drawdown means your account temporarily dropped 30 % from its high watermark.
Yes, Bitcoin is extremely volatile. Historical maximum drawdown on the medium risk setting has encountered a 34.29% drawdown with 108 days stagnation period. These figures date back to January 2024 when we began building this structure. After over 20 months and several versions in test we went live in August 2025. We must state we don’t know what can happen in the future, drawdown might exceed these previous troughs, but this structure has proven itself through many changing market condition’s. |e have two risk settings so everyone’s risk appetite is catered for. We Large single-day drawdowns have occurred a number of times and are to be expected. It is important to note the strike rate, which is only in the vicinity of 25% and a profitability score of around 1.45, meaning that consecutive losing trades and therefore drawdowns are common. As is in the name, BTC Breakout’s performance relies on price breaking out of consolidation zones and therefore profits on long sweeping periods of volatility.
No. It is a pure breakout strategy. It does not double lots after losses (no martingale), does not add to losing positions (no pyramiding), and does not use grid spacing. BTC Breakout simply relies on market volatility and Bitcoin’s notoriously expansive and sweeping price action.
Spread is the difference between the bid and ask price. On BTCUSD it is usually dependant on liquidity and time of day. This is your main trading cost.
Slippage is when your trade is executed at a worse price than requested — common during fast Bitcoin moves or market news events. With cloud copying, slippage of 10–50 pips ($0.2–$1 per 0.02 lots) is unavoidable in volatile conditions however, from testing we see it has no major impact on trading results over a prolonged period of time (infrequent and small slippages have not lasting adverse effect on performance in the long run).
Capital in the account running BTC Breakout is at risk. Bitcoin regularly moves thousands of dollars in hours. Although our EA takes every precaution possible to manage risk sustainably, there is a possibility of losing the entire account balance to a black swan event. The operation of BTC Breakout is also reliant on both VPS solutions as well as Cloud Copying solutions, both of which are third party services we have no control over. All possible precautions are being taken to minimise any possible scenarios impact on trading, but no guarantees can be given. We do have safety measures in place for the software to adapt to market condition’s, not place trades outwith normal ranges and each trade has a double protection stop loss and risks a small percentage of the account balance per trade.
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However, past performance is no guarantee of future results.
The worst peak-to-trough drawdown on the verified live medium risk account is 24.96%. The worst peak-to-trough drawdown on the verified live low risk account is 15.82%. Past performance is no guarantee, but this is the real historical average. However, periods of drawdown on BTC Breakout usually occur in a slow and linear manner, where it would take days or weeks to reach these drawdown levels.
Please see the results page for an in-depth view of BTC breakout historical returns.
Returns are relatively steady for a BTC strategy. The Sharpe ratio is 0.07 (positive, but low which is typical for trend/breakout strategies) and the Z-score shows a 65 % rate of the results not being random, giving a 15% edge on the market.
Because winning trades are 4-5 times larger than losing trades on average. This is normal for breakout/trend-following strategies: you lose small and often, but win big when the trend runs, resulting in long term steady steady progression mixed with periods of stagnation.
Yes, there has been several negative months on tested versions before going live and also live months of negativity. No strategy wins every month when trading Bitcoin.
Yes, every live account is linked on Myfxbook with an investor password. You can see the equity curve, trades, drawdowns, and monthly returns going back months.
Absolutely, we encourage this. Users should only risk money they can afford to lose. We advise users to please observe our live results and get comfortable with the way the software operates before purchasing.
Yes. It requires no manual input from yourself, however you still need to pass the broker’s appropriateness questionnaire and understand basic CFD concepts to open an account. We provide full guides on set up, but we don’t recommend it as your very first trading experience.
Yes, once connected to the cloud software, the software will still be connected, you don’t need to have internet, electricity your computer running once your connected.
No, it does not trade Friday night through Sunday night. Weekend gaps and lower liquidity are some of the riskier periods which significantly increase risk and reduce performance, BTC Breakout only operates on business days.
It’s optional. You can enable trade alerts in MT4 or through the cloud copier dashboard but, we don’t recommend constantly looking at the trading, let us handle the hard work and you can check periodically by logging into your account.
Very rare, but possible (e.g., during extreme volatility or black swan events). If that happens, open positions may be forced closed at market price.
We are not tax advisors, financial advisors nor legal advisors and urge any EA user to obtain independent and professional tax advice in their applicable jurisdiction.
You can. Just close your positions or let the EA close existing trades first (or accept they’ll be closed by stop-out if margin is tight), then withdraw. You can easily disconnect from the EA by changing your trading account’s password at any time.
No, we have a strict policy of one licence per one trading account.
Yes, dramatically. Big news events are when the biggest wins and biggest drawdowns happen. However, the historical results always sway to the positive during these scenarios and risk is still managed tightly to mitigate the possibility of any large singular losses.
The EA trades until the last Friday before Christmas and is then switched off until markets become liquid again. Spreads widen and slippage increases during this period, therefore we are conservative with how and when the BTC Breakout EA operates.
It keeps trading the same way. There is no need for a “panic button”. BTC Breakout follows the breakout rules in both directions, meaning that any significant movement in either direction could be greatly profitable.
We are not financial advisors and take no responsibility for the funds you choose to trade with. A $1000 minimum deposit is required to meet risk and margin requirements. The less you trade with, the less painful a 20%+ drawdown could feel. Never trade with funds you are not willing to lose.
Breakout systems have worked on Bitcoin for 10+ years. As long as Bitcoin remains volatile and trending, the logic stays valid. The software is designed to adjust to market condition’s, that said no future results are guaranteed.
No. You are trading your own account with your own capital. We provide the software and you accept full responsibility for the outcome.
