Making your own candlestick pattern

[njmeyer713]

Hello All-

I am trying to figure out how to make my own candlestick pattern to use in my strategy. It would be a 3 bar strategy and I want to be able to say if this pattern occurs to go long. I want to be able to name it, so I can reference things like bars since Pattern X occurred. The pattern should be something along the lines of

 Low[3] > High[1]
 && Close[2] < Open[2]

Basically I want to see when Bar 3 ago and Bar 1 ago don't have price that overlaps meaning Bar 2 ago was an aggressive move down.

Thank you,

Nick

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello njmeyer713,

The easiest way would be to make a copy of the existing candlestick pattern indicator and then add your custom patterns to that. That indicator is already set up to be used as a signal and has the ability to name the patterns by using an enum.

To make a copy you can open the original indicator then Right click -> Save as.

[njmeyer713]

Jesse-

Thank you for the response, is there an example of this that I can reference?

Thank you,

Nick

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello njmeyer713,

The CandleStickPattern indicator is included with NinjaTrader, you can view its code using the NinjaScript editor.