Dear all R-SIG readers I am learning Quantstrat now and wonder if anybody could point out examples where entries/exits were based on Japanese candlesticks' patterns. For example, I would like to back-test intraday momentum strategy when there was a large gap (previous day Close to given day Open) and during the first three 5-min candlesticks there were at least 2 candlesticks showing strong momentum. Say we have gap up and at least 2 candlesticks were Marubozu (Close = High) and/or Large White candlestick (Open-Close >= 66% of High-Low). One could imagine that such a strong momentum observed at day opening could hold for some time and one may try to 'ride on a hype' in the gap direction. One more thing I would like to implement in this back-testing is, once entered say long, I would like to apply a sophisticated stop trailing order which starts at a predefined risk (say, 1% of my Equity) and then it should follows the price based on the last 5-min candlestick. When it was again Marubozu and/or Large White candlestick I replace stop trailing order price with the one at the last candlestick Low and so on until the order is executed or I close before the day ends. Any snippets/examples related to the ideas mentioned? My rough idea I that I could introduce add.indicator and classify each 5-min candlestick and that then will be used for add.rule? Sorry, I am very new in Quantstrat. Thanks you so much in advance. Best regards Dmitry Kishkinev
PhD, Research Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd, UK Email: dmitry.kishkinev at gmail.com; *d*.kishkinev at bangor.ac.uk <kishkinev at qub.ac.uk> Mobile phone: +44-(0)77-194-181-41 [[alternative HTML version deleted]]