Marubozu Candles and Range Balance for Intraday Signals

Summary

This intraday approach uses long-bodied bullish or bearish Marubozu candles as directional entry signals. The description also proposes comparing body size with its average and checking whether upper and lower shadows are roughly balanced, with imbalanced candles skipped. Exits are described as relying on the prior two candles to identify a possible reversal. The supplied example uses Binance BTC/USDT futures data from January 2024, on an hourly strategy timeframe with 15-minute base data; it gives no performance results.

The source code operationalizes Marubozu candles as bodies longer than an exponential average with shadows no larger than a small fraction of the body. It enters on those candle patterns and closes positions using prior candle colors; it does not visibly implement the described shadow-balance filter or average-body comparison as an entry condition. The document warns that ranging markets can whipsaw the signals and that strict pattern criteria may miss less extreme moves. No evidence supports its promotional claim of a high win rate.

Key ideas

• The proposed entry signals are bullish or bearish Marubozu candles.
• The description recommends comparing candle bodies with an average and checking shadow balance.
• The source code enters on long-bodied candles with very small shadows and exits using prior candle colors.
• The documented range-balance filter is not visibly part of the supplied entry logic.
• Ranging markets and parameter choices may affect signal quality.

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