Yorikiri

yorikiri

Function Name: yorikiri

Tags: Belt-Hold

Category: Candlestick, Pattern

Yorikiri or Belt-Hold is a one candle pattern. It is basically a long real body with zero size or insignificant lower and/or upper shadows. The bullish belt-hold line pattern consists of a long white body. If this pattern appears at the bottom of a down trend it could be a reversal sign with bullish implications. The bearish belt-hold line pattern consists of a long black body. If this pattern appears at the top pf an uptrend it could be a reversal sign with bearish implications.

Criteria:

1. Market is in uptrend (downtrend).

2. A long black (white) candle appears.

3. It opens near or at it's high.

 

Parameters:

AvgBodyHeightPeriod: The number of body heights that are averaged to form the body length baseline.

LongBodyRelativeThresh: Baseline multiple used to form the threshold for "long body".

MaxRelativeShadowLength: Maximum size of the open side shadow relative to the length of the real body.

UseTrendCondition: If false, then the criterion No. 1 is not tested.

ShowMark, ShowBar: Display control flags.

 

Parameters

AvgBodyHeightPeriod

 

Default Value: 14  |  Minimum: 1  |  Maximum: 999

 

Type: Numeric

LongBodyRelativeThresh

 

Default Value: 2  |  Minimum: 0  |  Maximum: 100

 

Type: Numeric

MaxRelativeShadowLength

 

Default Value: 0.02  |  Minimum: 0  |  Maximum: 0.5

 

Type: Numeric

UseTrendCondition

 

Default Value: -1

 

Type: Boolean

ShowMark

 

Default Value: -1

 

Type: Boolean

ShowBar

 

Default Value: -1

 

Type: Boolean