Hi all,
Does anyone know of a script which will give a signal when a pinbar is formed on your specified time range?
Thanks alot.
For the benefit of the OP.
A Hanging Man is a Hammer and a Hammer is a Hanging Man, depending on direction of the trailing trend.
The Pinbar is what I call: Leading Trajectory Specific. It is not dependent on direction of trailing trend. Typically, the longer the Tail and the smaller the Body (provided the body closes opposite the tail), the more pronounced the price action after the Pinbar. But, of course, this is all academic and rather conventional.
However, the concept of the Pinbar can be taken to another level that is somewhat outside the box.
I have called it: Evolving Pinbar. The concept is straight forward and coding it, depending on which platform you use, should not be that difficult. It goes like this. Assume that your primary trading bar is the 5 minute interval and that you classify yourself as a scalper. You sit, wait, twiddling your thumbs and ponder the arrival of the next Pinbar, but alas, none show up. You then head over to the refrigerator to grab a Coke and decide that you need to go out and check the mail while you're at it, well, because no Pinbars have presented themselves in the last hour anyway. Upon arriving back from dumping your Publisher Clearing House junk mail and sipping on your Coke, you can't believe your eyes - a Pinbar! You check the price, click over to your trading platform but realize in short order that, well, the train has already left the station and being a scalper, you have no more room left under the move (assuming it was Long) to protect your typical stop loss. So, alas, you wait for yet another Pinbar to arrive.
Well, this is where the Evolving Pinbar concept enters the room.
Your last Pinbar was say, 1005hrs GMT. You are on the 10 minute chart. However, why not switch to the 20 minute chart. You say, but I don't have a 20 minute chart. Well, you do as soon as you combine two consecutive 10 minute bars - alas, a 20 minute candle appears right before your eyes and oh, wait a minute, it looks like if forms a Pinbar, too.
By simply thinking slightly outside the box, you can allow the Pinbar to Evolve from minute to minute. You can ultimately end up trading 11 minute Pinbars, 17 minute Pinbars, 25 minute Pinbars, the choice is yours and there are two significant advantages: a) You get exposure to more Pinbar formations per day and b) With each consecutive Pinbar formation in a higher time-interval, you have a better likelihood that the opposite Tail will be longer and thus the subsequent move opposing the Tail will be stronger. (not always, but the more opportunity the better).
So, with just a small degree of outside the box thinking, you can turn a signal with lower availability, into a signal with not only higher availability, but with greater earnings potential as well (in the aggregate).
I'm Number 7 and that's my Evolving Pinbar contribution to this thread.
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