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wealthwiz
Posted : Monday, November 7, 2005 4:05:35 PM
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I have found almost all of your training videos extremely helpful to set up my Telechart program. I wonder if there is a way to set up Telechart to view Heikin-Ashi Candlestick patterns. Thankfully - Suraj
Craig_S
Posted : Monday, November 7, 2005 4:22:42 PM


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There would be no way to create a price bar/candle like this.

We could potentially SCAN for the patterns, though...

Here is the PCF equivilents to use. Replace the "xPer" with whatever period you want to use (for example MAXC15 if xPer=15 days).

For Open O use:
(H1+L1)/2

For Close C use:
(H+L+C+O)/4

For High H use:
(((H>MAXCxPer AND H>MAXOxPer)*H)+((H<MAXCxPer AND MAXCxPer>MAXOxPer)*MAXCxPer)+ ((H<MAXOxPer AND MAXCxPer<MAXOxPer)*MAXOxPer))*(-1)

For Low L use:
(((L<MINCxPer AND L<MINOxPer)*L)+((L>MINCxPer AND MINCxPer<MINOxPer)*MINCxPer)+ ((L>MINOxPer AND MINCxPer>MINOxPer)*MINOxPer))*(-1)

So though you cannot plot and view the candle constructed this way, you now have the PCFs to replace OHLC so you can scan for the desired patterns.

- Craig
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wealthwiz
Posted : Monday, November 7, 2005 4:33:40 PM
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Thanks a lot Craig. I will see if I can make this work. -Suraj
wealthwiz
Posted : Friday, November 11, 2005 4:13:11 PM
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Thanks Craig for the PCFs..it seems to work a treat. I wonder what the optimum time period should be for a short-term trader like myself.
Doug_H
Posted : Friday, November 11, 2005 5:53:08 PM


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That would be a great question to post over in the Stock and Market Talk forum. Perhaps others using Heikin-Ashi candlestick patterns would share their thoughts with you.

- Doug
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mbbcat
Posted : Thursday, April 19, 2007 12:12:58 AM
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From another reference;
===========================================
The heikin-ashi candlestick technique uses modified
open-high-low-close (OHLC) values and displays them
as candlesticks but | had them converted to paint bar
studies . The modified values are computed using these
definitions:

haClose = (O+H+L+C)/4
haOpen = (haOpen (previous bar) + haClose (previous
bar))/2
haHigh = Maximum(H, haOpen, haClose)
haLow = Minimum(L, haOpen, haClose)

=============================================
well I managed the first 2
as haOpen = (o+h+l+c)/4
haClose = (( (o1+h1+l1+c1)/4)+( (o1+h1+l1+c1)/4))/2

but when I tried the haHigh = MIN(H(((o1+h1+l1+c1)/4)+((o1+h1+l1+c1)/4))/2, (o+h+l+c)/4)

& the haLow = MAX(L(((o1+h1+l1+c1)/4)+((o1+h1+l1+c1)/4))/2, (o+h+l+c)/4)

It accepted it but gave erronous results (according to excel)

also at a loss as to how to alter the colour of the candles - thinking that if it can be done with BOP.....

Any suggestions pls??
Craig_S
Posted : Thursday, April 19, 2007 6:23:33 AM


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Use the PCFs I gave above. The notation you quote is not written in the PCF syntax so it will not produce accurate calculations.

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