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mopman
Posted : Wednesday, August 18, 2010 7:24:14 PM
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Can you please help me with this formula? I I would like to find hanging men candlesticks that have their shadows twice as long or longer than their bodies and with at least 2x the normal volume. I appreciate your help, and thanks in advance.

Lee
Bruce_L
Posted : Thursday, August 19, 2010 8:18:18 AM


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I'm not a candlestick guy (at all), but the Boolean PCFs for Candlestick Patterns topic has two formulas. Both appear to check for the bottom shadow being at least twice as long as the body.

Hanging Man:

((ABS(C >= O) * O) + (ABS(C < O) * C)) - L >= ABS(C - O) * 2 AND (((C + O) / 2) - L) > (H -((C + O) / 2)) * 2 AND ABS(C - O) > .01

Dragonfly Doji/Hanging Man:

ABS(C - O) <= (H - L) * .25 AND ((ABS(C <= O) * C) + (ABS(C > O) * O)) - L >= ABS(C - O) * 2 AND ((ABS(C <= O) * C) + (ABS(C > O) * O)) - L >= (H - L +.0001) * .75

You should be able to just add a Volume check to the end of either formula. If you define normal volume as the 20-Period Simple Moving Average of Volume then you would need to add something similar to the following:

AND V >= 2 * AVGV20

You may wish to review the following:

How to create a Personal Criteria Forumula (PCF)
PCF Formula Descriptions
Handy PCF example formulas to help you learn the syntax of PCFs!

-Bruce
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