Tracking the last bull/bear candle

[shoky afroking]

Hello,anyone who knows how to track the last bull/bear candle? I kindly ask for your help.

 

 simply,am looking forward to create an indicator that gives buy signals whenever the current bull candle closes above the last bear candle AND sell signals whenever a bear candle closes bolow the last bull candle. 

As I’ve highlighted in my attachment below 

1st rectangle as a buy signal 

2nd rectangle as a sell signal 

3rd rectangle as a buy signal 

[Fernando Carreiro]

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[Fernando Carreiro]

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[Sie Samuel Roland Youl]

input ENUM_TIMEFRAMES               TimeFrame                  = PERIOD_CURRENT;         // EA Timeframe
  
double  Close = iClose(_Symbol,TimeFrame,1);
 double  Open = iOpen(_Symbol,TimeFrame,1);

if(Close >Open)
{
// BUY SIGNAL
}

if(Open<Close)
{
// SELL SIGNAL
}

I think this will do the job.

[shoky afroking]

Fernando Carreiro #:

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Thank you 🙏🏻 

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shoky afroking:
Hello,anyone who knows how to track the last bull/bear candle? I kindly ask for your help.

 

 simply,am looking forward to create an indicator that gives buy signals whenever the current bull candle closes above the last bear candle AND sell signals whenever a bear candle closes bolow the last bull candle. 

As I’ve highlighted in my attachment below 

1st rectangle as a buy signal 

2nd rectangle as a sell signal 

3rd rectangle as a buy signal 

i see you have something similar like Engulf. these codes are freely available on codebase which you can modify and help yourself

Sie Samuel Roland Youl #:

I think this will do the job.

No it wont do the job. check the op's requirement he mentions last candle.

something like this may work.

input ENUM_TIMEFRAMES               TimeFrame                  = PERIOD_CURRENT;         // EA Timeframe
  
double  last_Close = iClose(_Symbol,TimeFrame,2);
 double   last_Open = iOpen(_Symbol,TimeFrame,2);

double cur_Close = iClose(_Symbol,TimeFrame,1);
 double   cur_Open = iOpen(_Symbol,TimeFrame,1);

if(last_Close < last_Open /* if prev candle is bear*/&&  cur_Close > cur_Open /* if current candle is bull*/&& cur_Close > last_Open /* if a closing is detected above bear candle */  ) 
{
// BUY SIGNAL
}
 //vice versa for sell

Additionally as per screenshot of Op, it looks like he wants to have a closing of bull above bear but its not the last candle. In this case he may have to store the info of candles in array and look for closing for n candles and break the loop or empty the array when a close is above bear found.