Research method
Donchian breakout
Donchian breakout is a canonical archive-taxonomy method; this registry entry defines its inputs, output and use boundary.
- Output
- Signal
- Input
- Rule inputs, market state and execution constraints
- Horizon
- The system holding period
- Best use
- Make entry, exit and abstention rules testable as one procedure.
- Input: Rule inputs, market state and execution constraints.
- Output: signal.
- Use boundary: Make entry, exit and abstention rules testable as one procedure.
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How the method is built, and where it has been read
Depends on
Often reviewed together
Breakout system4 readings
Read in the archive9 readings
1989Evaluating channel breakout with intraday and close-only stops1990Delayed channel breakout stop construction1992Turtle trading as one testable Donchian breakout procedure2000Fixed-horizon walk-forward tests of first-print breakouts2001Hourly Donchian and Turtle rules locked after one walk-forward window2013Z-score value filter on reversals and Donchian entries2014Walk-forward complexity in Donchian breakout systems2014Length fit versus later window for a two-length Donchian breakout2020Constructing Turtle-style dual Donchian trend-bands
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