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FREE TRADINGVIEW FOR TIMEFRAMESWhen doing i.e the 3 minute timeframe turn on the closest timeframe available for you or the candles and wicks will be fucked up. So if you're doing the 5 hour timeframe candles turn on the 4hr chart on your main chart. To View the candles in full screen double click the windows with the candlesticks If you don't have TradingView premium and want to look at custom timeframes you can use this. For the ticker/coin/pair you want to show enter it like this: For stocks, only the ticker i.e: MSFT, APPL For Crypto, "Exchange:ticker" i.e: BITFINEX:BTCUSD, BINANCE:AGIBTC, BITMEX:ADAM19 When setting up the timeframe write i.e: For minutes/hourly: 5, 240 (4 hour), 360 (6 hour) For daily/weekly/monthly: 1D, 2W, 3M When doing i.e the 3 minute timeframe turn on the closest timeframe available for you or the candles and wicks will be fucked up. So if you're doing the 5 hour timeframe candles turn on the 4hr chart on your main chart.
Pine Script™ indicator
by CosmonautCalls
3
Fake-Out IndicatorThe signal comes from the "RailRoad" candlestick pattern breaking a support/resistance level, which typically indicates price will respect that level. How consistent is the pattern? Hard to say considering candlestick patterns vary wildly by % change between different securities. I didn't implement any kind of "fuzzy logic" for this strategy, though it would benefit greatly from it. There are many instances where a fixed% simply doesn't catch a winning trade from a "bounce" off a S/R level.
Pine Script™ indicator
by DasanC
10
PivotBoss TriggersI have collected the four PivotBoss indicators into one big indicator. Eventually I will delete the individual ones, since you can just turn off the ones you don't need in the style controller. Cheers. Wick Reversal When the market has been trending lower then suddenly forms a reversal wick candlestick , the likelihood of a reversal increases since buyers have finally begun to overwhelm the sellers. Selling pressure rules the decline, but responsive buyers entered the market due to perceived undervaluation. For the reversal wick to open near the high of the candle, sell off sharply intra-bar, and then rally back toward the open of the candle is bullish , as it signifies that the bears no longer have control since they were not able to extend the decline of the candle, or the trend. Instead, the bulls were able to rally price from the lows of the candle and close the bar near the top of its range, which is bullish - at least for one bar, which hadn't been the case during the bearish trend. Essentially, when a reversal wick forms at the extreme of a trend, the market is telling you that the trend either has stalled or is on the verge of a reversal. Remember, the market auctions higher in search of sellers, and lower in search of buyers. When the market over-extends itself in search of market participants, it will find itself out of value, which means responsive market participants will look to enter the market to push price back toward an area of perceived value. This will help price find a value area for two-sided trade to take place. When the market finds itself too far out of value, responsive market participants will sometimes enter the market with force, which aggressively pushes price in the opposite direction, essentially forming reversal wick candlesticks . This pattern is perhaps the most telling and common reversal setup, but requires steadfast confirmation in order to capitalize on its power. Understanding the psychology behind these formations and learning to identify them quickly will allow you to enter positions well ahead of the crowd, especially if you've spotted these patterns at potentially overvalued or undervalued areas. Fade (Extreme) Reversal The extreme reversal setup is a clever pattern that capitalizes on the ongoing psychological patterns of investors, traders, and institutions. Basically, the setup looks for an extreme pattern of selling pressure and then looks to fade this behavior to capture a bullish move higher (reverse for shorts). In essence, this setup is visually pointing out oversold and overbought scenarios that forces responsive buyers and sellers to come out of the dark and put their money to work-price has been over-extended and must be pushed back toward a fair area of value so two-sided trade can take place. This setup works because many normal investors, or casual traders, head for the exits once their trade begins to move sharply against them. When this happens, price becomes extremely overbought or oversold, creating value for responsive buyers and sellers. Therefore, savvy professionals will see that price is above or below value and will seize the opportunity. When the scared money is selling, the smart money begins to buy, and Vice versa. Look at it this way, when the market sells off sharply in one giant candlestick , traders that were short during the drop begin to cover their profitable positions by buying. Likewise, the traders that were on the sidelines during the sell-off now see value in lower prices and begin to buy, thus doubling up on the buying pressure. This helps to spark a sharp v-bottom reversal that pushes price in the opposite direction back toward fair value. Engulfing (Outside) Reversal The power behind this pattern lies in the psychology behind the traders involved in this setup. If you have ever participated in a breakout at support or resistance only to have the market reverse sharply against you, then you are familiar with the market dynamics of this setup. What exactly is going on at these levels? To understand this concept is to understand the outside reversal pattern. Basically, market participants are testing the waters above resistance or below support to make sure there is no new business to be done at these levels. When no initiative buyers or sellers participate in range extension, responsive participants have all the information they need to reverse price back toward a new area of perceived value. As you look at a bullish outside reversal pattern, you will notice that the current bar's low is lower than the prior bar's low. Essentially, the market is testing the waters below recently established lows to see if a downside follow-through will occur. When no additional selling pressure enters the market, the result is a flood of buying pressure that causes a springboard effect, thereby shooting price above the prior bar's highs and creating the beginning of a bullish advance. If you recall the child on the trampoline for a moment, you'll realize that the child had to force the bounce mat down before he could spring into the air. Also, remember Jennifer the cake baker? She initially pushed price to $20 per cake, which sent a flood of orders into her shop. The flood of buying pressure eventually sent the price of her cakes to $35 apiece. Basically, price had to test the $20 level before it could rise to $35. Let's analyze the outside reversal setup in a different light for a moment. One of the reasons I like this setup is because the two-bar pattern reduces into the wick reversal setup, which we covered earlier in the chapter. If you are not familiar with candlestick reduction, the idea is simple. You are taking the price data over two or more candlesticks and combining them to create a single candlestick . Therefore, you will be taking the open, high, low, and close prices of the bars in question to create a single composite candlestick . Doji Reversal The doji candlestick is the epitome of indecision. The pattern illustrates a virtual stalemate between buyers and sellers, which means the existing trend may be on the verge of a reversal. If buyers have been controlling a bullish advance over a period of time, you will typically see full-bodied candlesticks that personify the bullish nature of the move. However, if a doji candlestick suddenly appears, the indication is that buyers are suddenly not as confident in upside price potential as they once were. This is clearly a point of indecision, as buyers are no longer pushing price to higher valuation, and have allowed sellers to battle them to a draw-at least for this one candlestick . This leads to profit taking, as buyers begin to sell their profitable long positions, which is heightened by responsive sellers entering the market due to perceived overvaluation. This "double whammy" of selling pressure essentially pushes price lower, as responsive sellers take control of the market and push price back toward fair value.
Pine Script™ indicator
by ParCorn
7
Combined MTF Camarilla Pivots (HA + Candles)This is a fairly basic (but hopefully useful) indicator that combines three time-frames of Camarilla pivots into one. Default time-frames are: Weekly Monthly Yearly Time-frames can be modified as you wish, they are just set to these as I generally only trade higher intervals (just note that formatting labels will not change - but you can update these as needed). The Camarilla pivots displayed are as follows: R3, R4, R5, R6 Pivot line (Middle/Base) S3, S4, S5, S6 R1/S1 & R2/S2 are excluded to make way for R5/S5 & R6/S6 - as these are more useful for the majority of traders. The formula for levels 5/6 are always up for debate, as no official formula has ever been released. I've used what I consider a mid, or consensus calculation. By default all historical pivot levels are displayed, as there can be some benefit to mapping these forward once the relevant period has ended. If people find it's too cluttered I'll look into having an option to display the current period only. Unfortunately, TradingView doesn't allow labels on plots (seems like such a basic feature to be missing, but there you go), so you'll have to learn the colours/linewidths. Oh, and there's a checkbox to enable pivots to be calculated on Heiken-Ashi prices/candles rather than default prices/candles. This heavily modifies the location of the Camarilla Pivots, but I've found that in certain situations you can get some great results. Let me know your thoughts/comments/suggestions. Cheers DD
Pine Script™ indicator
by DreamsDefined
19
Range: OHLC vs Previous OHLCThis will plot your choice of OHLC (or any of the averaging choices) of the current candle compared to the previous candle. For example if you choose "high" for the input and set the chart to daily, you'll see the currently daily high vs the previous daily high. Green candle represent a higher high and the length of the candle represents how much higher. Red candles represent a lower high than the previous day and the length is by how much lower. This indicator is pretty straight forward, look for me to build on this with something a little more elaborate in the near future.
Pine Script™ indicator
by oldinvestor