The Blockade Pattern Recognition in TradingView
Coding an Blockade Candlestick Pattern Scanner in TradingView
Candlestick patterns are a great addition to market analysis. Some may even consider them vital in research and trading. This article presents the Blockade pattern and shows how to code a scanner in TradingView that detects it.
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The Blockade Pattern
Candlestick charts are among the most famous ways to analyze the time series visually. They contain more information than a simple line chart and have more visual interpretability than bar charts.
The Blockade pattern is a stabilization and reversal pattern composed of four candlesticks.
The bullish Blockade is composed of a bullish candlestick that surpasses the high of a bearish candlestick three periods ago. At the same time, its low should be contained within the bearish candlestick’s low and its close. The two intermediate candlesticks’ highs should not surpass the high of the bearish candlestick. The following Figure shows a theoretical illustration of the bullish Blockade.
The bearish Blockade is composed of a bearish candlestick that breaks the low of a bullish candlestick three periods ago. At the same time, its high should be contained within the bullish candlestick’s high and its close. The two intermediate candlesticks’ lows should not break the low of the bullish candlestick. The following Figure shows a theoretical illustration of the bearish Blockade.
Coding the Scanner in TradingView
The conditions of the pattern are relatively easy to code especially in a straightforward and simple coding language such as Pine Script, TradingView’s native language.
The aim of the scanner is to detect the Blockade patterns using the following indications:
A green arrow for bullish Blockade signals.
A red arrow for bearish Blockade signals.
// This source code is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public License 2.0 at https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/
// © Sofien-Kaabar//@version=5indicator("Candlestick Pattern - Blockade", overlay = true)bullish_blockade = close[1] > open[1] and close[4] < open[4] and low[1] >= low[4] and low[1] <= close[4] and close[1] > high[4] and low[2] >= low[4] and low[2] <= close[4] and low[3] >= low[4] and low[3] <= close[4] and high[2] < high[4] and high[3] < high[4]
bearish_blockade = close[1] < open[1] and close[4] > open[4] and high[1] <= high[4] and high[1] >= close[4] and close[1] < low[4] and high[2] <= high[4] and high[2] >= close[4] and high[3] <= high[4] and high[3] >= close[4] and low[2] > low[4] and low[3] > low[4]plotshape(bullish_blockade, style = shape.triangleup, color = color.green, location = location.belowbar, size = size.small)
plotshape(bearish_blockade, style = shape.triangledown, color = color.red, location = location.abovebar, size = size.small)The following Figure shows a signal chart after the code has been applied and executed.
The following Figure shows another signal chart.
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