# Historical Maximum Breakout

Buy at pivot highs breakouts and sell at relative minimums between the breakout of a pivot high and that pivot high.

Canonical: https://prismaticalgos.com/compendium/algo/1094-historical-maximum-breakout
Record ID: 1094
Catalog rank: 2943 (reading order, not performance)
Snapshot: 2026-10-31 15:46 UTC
Family: Trade & Execution Management (K)
Source: https://www.prorealcode.com/topic/aclaraciones-sobre-una-estrategia-propuesta-por-quo-en-el-forum-en-ingles/
Evidence label (unverified): source_code

## Scope and limitations

These are machine-extracted research records, not verified trading systems. Catalog rank measures specification detail and claimed evidence, not profitability. The catalog extraction pipeline did not independently backtest these records. Its separate selected testing ledger does not validate the wider corpus. Rules, labels and parameters can be incomplete or wrong; consult the original source and its reuse terms.

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## Extraction warnings

Build warnings: DAILY_LOW_COUNT: daily-or-slower timeframe on a single instrument. Expect well under 100 trades in five years, so a backtest will rarely reach statistical significance on its own.

## Recorded profile

- symbols: Stocks/ETFs
- timeframes: Daily, Weekly, Monthly
- sessions: Not specified
- market_regime: trending|volatile

## Indicators

No indicator stack recorded.

## Recorded long-entry rules

- high > currentMax
- low < low[1] and currentMax > historicalMax
- buyPrice = historicalMax

## Recorded short-entry rules

- Not specified.

## Recorded exit rules

- exitPrice = currentMin * (1 - exitFilter/100)
- high < high[1] and currentMax > historicalMax
- exitPrice = max(breakevenStop, exitPrice)
- sell at exitPrice stop

## Recorded filters

- Not specified.

## Risk controls

- Stop loss: null
- Take profit: null
- Position sizing: positionSize = ROUND((equity * risk/100) / (buyPrice - exitPrice))