Overview‍

Use Candle Setup to define the structure of each candlestick in your pattern.
Here you control:

• the type of candlestick (bullish, bearish, or neutral).
• the candlestick size (measured by %Change, Tick, or Price) and where that size is taken (full candle, body, wick).
• the candlestick shape (ratio between body and wicks), with one or two ratio checks to build any type of candlesticks such as Harami, Doji, Shooting Star and many others.
• and an optional volume-multiplier constraint to target strong-volume candlesticks or successive momentum-volume candlesticks.

CandleType

Choose whether a candle is treated as Bullish or Bearish — or left Neutral.

• ☑ Checked Bullish → Close above Open.
• ☑ Checked Bearish → Close below Open.
• ☒ Unchecked → Neutral (no direction constraint; the candle may act bullish or bearish).

With neutral candles, prefer Top Body Price and Bottom Body Price as references in other parameters to keep detection flexible.

‍Top Body Price = Close if it's a bullish candle / Open if it's a bearish candle.
‍Bottom Body Price = Open if it's a bullish candle / Close if it's a bearish candle.

CandleSize

CandleSize defines how big or small a candlestick must be, using either %Change, Tick or Price measurement. You can apply this filter to specific areas like the Full Candle, Body only, or Wick only — or even combine them for advanced structure filtering.

• Type: %Change, Tick, or Price.
• Area: Full Candle / Body / High Wick / Low Wick / Body + High Wick / Body + Low Wick.

CandleShape¹ & CandleShape²

These settings allow you to define any type of candlestick shape — such as a Hammer, Doji, Shooting Star, and many others — by applying a multiplier between different sections of a candle.

These settings lets you compare the size of one candle section (e.g., Low Wick) relative to another (e.g., Body) using a ratio-based condition.

Pairs:

• Body ✖ Low Wick: Requires the Low Wick size to be a multiple of the Body size.
• Body ✖ High Wick: Requires the High Wick size to be a multiple of the Body size.
• Low Wick ✖ High Wick: Requires the High Wick size to be a multiple of the Low Wick size.
• High Wick ✖ Low Wick: Requires the Low Wick size to be a multiple of the High Wick size.
• High Wick ✖ Body: Requires the Body size to be a multiple of the High Wick size.
• Low Wick ✖ Body: Requires the Body size to be a multiple of the Low Wick size.

Strong Body Candlestick Examples

Doji Candlestick Examples

Bullish Rejection Candlestick Examples

Bearish Rejection Candlestick Examples

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CandleVolume Multiplier (HLV & CV)

Define a precise volume range for your candlestick volume based on the highest volume found in the lookback.\nPerfect to detect strong volume candles or momentum patterns within your setup.

• HLV — Highest Lookback Volume MaxDepth → number of previous volume bars before your candlestick volume used to find the highest volume (as reference).
• CV — CandleVolume Multiplier Min/Max → your candlestick volume must be within the Min/Max range, based on the highest volume found in the Highest Lookback Volume MaxDepth.

How it works

CandleVolume Strategy Examples