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davinder_pal
Posted : Wednesday, September 12, 2012 3:06:00 PM
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example stock - ODP, poped on 5th followed by 3 down candle.

if somebody can help me out with PCF that will be great!

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Bruce_L
Posted : Wednesday, September 12, 2012 3:20:54 PM


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I'm going to assume from your reference to ODP that you mean the close is less than the open as your definition of a down candle (as 9/7/2012 actually had a positive net change). How specifically do you want to define a "big candle" however?

Is it the "pop" that describes it? Are you interested in a certain % change or net change? Are you interested in the change being greater than the average change over some period by a certain percentage?

Is it the size of the candle? Are you interested in there being a certain range, percent range or true range? Are you interested in the range being greater than the average range over some period by a certain percentage?

Do you have some other objective definition in mind?



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davinder_pal
Posted : Wednesday, September 12, 2012 5:04:30 PM
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ODP doesn't look like a good candidate, but here is what i'm looking, a candle whose price %change > 10% from previous 5 bars and then price drop between 1-2% in next 3 days.

 

 

Bruce_L
Posted : Thursday, September 13, 2012 8:59:55 AM


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The following Condition Formula checks for price to have dropped between 1-2% during the most recent 3-bars following a candle which closed more than 10% the highest close of the previous 5-bars:

.98 * C3 <= C AND C <= .99 * C3 AND C3 > 1.1 * MAXC5.4

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