My preferred chart style is a candlestick chart but I have never investigated candlestick formations to see if they can help provide an edge in my trading. I recently ran into this blog post, Do Candlesticks Work? A Quantitative Test Of 23 Candlestick Formations, where he did his own investigation. Even better he shared the code for the formations in AmiBroker which would make it a lot easier. You can get my version of the code below.
Using the mean reversion strategy from my previous post, I wanted to know if any of the candlestick formations could improve the results.
Click here for the spreadsheet and candle code.
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