The Strat with TFC & Combo DashIntroduction:
This indicator is designed to implement "The Strat" trading strategy combined with a Timeframe Continuity Dashboard and Combo Dashboard. The Strat is a robust trading methodology that relies on price action and candlestick formations to make trading decisions. This script helps traders to identify specific bar types such as Inside Bars (1), Continuation Up Bars (2u), Continuation Down Bars (2d), and Outside Bars (3) across multiple timeframes. It visually highlights these bar types on the chart and provides a comprehensive dashboard displaying the current state of the selected timeframes.
Key Features:
Timeframe Continuity Dashboard: Displays arrows and bar types for up to four selected timeframes.
Strat Combos Dashboard: Shows the previous and current bar types to easily spot trading setups.
Customizable Colors and Labels: Options to personalize the colors and labels for Inside and Outside bars.
Adjustable Dashboard Position and Size: Allows users to set the location and size of the dashboard for better visual alignment.
Inputs:
TFC & Combo Dash Configuration:
Show TFC & Combo Dashboard: Toggle to display the dashboard.
Show Strat Combos: Toggle to display Strat combo setups.
Location: Dropdown to select the position of the dashboard on the chart.
Size: Dropdown to choose between desktop and mobile view.
Timeframe Selection:
Timeframe 1: Primary timeframe for analysis.
Timeframe 2: Secondary timeframe for analysis.
Timeframe 3: Tertiary timeframe for analysis.
Timeframe 4: Quaternary timeframe for analysis.
Candle Visuals:
Show Inside Bar Label: Option to show label instead of color for Inside bars.
Inside Bar Color: Color picker for Inside bars.
Show Outside Bar Label: Option to show label instead of color for Outside bars.
Outside Bar Color: Color picker for Outside bars.
TFC & Combo DashboardFunctions:
The script fetches values for the selected timeframes and computes the bar types and corresponding visual elements such as arrows and background colors. The dashboard displays this information in a tabular format for easy reference during trading.
The dashboard is dynamically created based on user input for position and size. It shows the selected timeframes, bar types, and combo setups, providing a quick overview of the market conditions across multiple timeframes.
Timeframes: Displays the four user chosen timeframes that the dashboard fetches data from.
Arrow and Color: Functions to set the arrow direction and color based on current bar action. Green and up arrow: price is above it's candle open.
Red and down arrow: price is below it's candles open.
Background Color: Functions to set background color based on the bar type. White for an outside bar(3), yellow for an inside bar(1), no color for a continuation bar(2).
Strat Candle Combos: Functions to determine if the bar is an Inside(1), Continuation Up(2u), Continuation Down(2d), or Outside bar(3). Shows the previous bar and the current bar for the user's chosen timeframes.
Candle Visuals:
The script plots labels and colors for Inside and Outside bars based on user preferences. It helps in quickly identifying potential trading setups on the chart.
Conclusion:
We believe in providing user-friendly tools to help speed up traders technical analysis and implement easy trading strategies. The Strat with TFC & Combo Dashboard is a tool to assist traders in identifying potential trading setups based on The Strat methodology; to suit the users needs and trading style.
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Thestrathelper
The Strat with Continuity [starlord_xrp]This indicator shows entry and exit points for The Strat as well as potential setups. It also has full time frame continuity detection.
The Strat [LuxAlgo]The Strat indicator is a full toolkit regarding most of the concepts within "The Strat" methodology with features such as candle numbering, pivot machine gun (PMG) highlighting, custom combo highlighting, and various statistics included.
Alerts are also included for the detection of specific candle numbers, custom combos, and PMGs.
🔶 SETTINGS
Show Numbers on Chart: Shows candle numbering on the chart.
Style Candles: Style candles based on the detected number. Only effective on non-line charts and if the script is brought to the front.
🔹 Custom Combo Search
Combo: User defined combo to be searched by the script. Combos can be composed of any series of numbers including (1, 2, -2, 3), e.g : 2-21. No spaces or other characters should be used.
🔹 Pivot Machine Gun
Show Labels: Highlight detected PMGs with a label.
Min Sequence Length: Minimum sequence length of consecutive higher lows/lower highs required to detect a PMG.
Min Breaks: Minimum amount of broken previous highs/lows required to detect a PMG.
Show Levels: Show levels of the broken highs/lows.
🔹 Pivot Combos
Pivot Lookback: Lookback period used for detecting pivot points.
Right Bars Scan: Number of bars scanned to the right side of a detected pivot.
Left Bars Scan: Number of bars scanned to the left side of a detected pivot.
🔹 Dashboard
Show Dashboard: Displays statistics dashboard on chart.
Numbers Counter: Displays the numbers counter section on the dashboard.
Pivot Combos: Displays pivots combo section on the dashboard.
%: Display the percentage of detected pivot combos on the dashboard instead of absolute numbers.
Pivot Combos Rows: Number of rows displayed by the "Pivots Combo" dashboard section.
Show MTF: Showa MTF candle numbering on the dashboard.
Location: Location of the dashboard on the chart.
Size: Size of the displayed dashboard.
🔶 USAGE
This script allows users with an understanding of The Strat to quickly highlight elements such as candle numbers, pivot machine guns, and custom combos. The usage for these concepts is given in the sub-sections below.
🔹 Candle Numbers
The Strat assigns a number to individual candles, this number is determined by the current candle position relative to the precedent candle, these include:
Number 1 - Inside bar, occurs when the previous candle range engulfs the current one.
Number 2 Up - Upside Directional Bar, occurs when the current price high breaks the previous high while the current low is lower than the previous high.
Number 2 Down - Downside Directional Bar, occurs when the current price low breaks the previous low while the current high is higher than the previous low.
Number 3 - Outside bar, occurs when the current candle range engulfs the previous one.
The script can highlight the number of a candle by using labels but can also style candles by depending on the candle number. Inside bars (1) only have their candle wick highlighted, directional bars (2) (-2) only have their candle body highlighted. Outside bars have their candle range highlighted.
Note that downside directional bars are highlighted with the number -2.
Users can see the total amount of times a specific candle number is detected on the historical data on the dashboard available within the settings, as well as the number of times a candle number is detected relative to the total amount of detected candle numbers expressed as a percentage.
It is also possible to see the current candle numbers returned by multiple timeframes on the dashboard.
🔹 Searching For Custom Combos
Combos are made of a sequence of two or more candle numbers. These combos can highlight multiple reversals/continuation scenarios. Various common combos are documented by The Strat community.
This script allows users to search for custom combos by entering them on the Combo user setting field.
When a user combo is found, it is highlighted on the chart as a box highlighting the combo range.
🔹 Pivot Combos
It can be of interest to a user to display the combo associated with a pivot high/low. This script will highlight the location of pivot points on the chart and display its associated combo by default. These are based on the Pivot Combo lookback and not displayed in real-time.
Users can see on the dashboard the combos associated with a pivot high/low, these are ranked by frequency.
🔹 Pivot Machine Gun (PMG)
Pivot Machine Guns (PMG)s describe the scenario where a single price variation breaks the value of multiple past successive higher lows/lower highs. This can highlight a self-exciting behavior, where even more past successive higher lows/lower highs get broken.
Users can select the minimum sequence length of successive higher lows/lower highs required for a PMG to be detected, as well the amount of these successive higher lows/lower highs that must be broken.
2U2DFlipHappy to contribute to the community request for indicators that TheStrat community find useful, I have published the requested 2U/2D flip indicator with built in 'alert' feature.
Adding this indicator to your chart will allow you to use the awesome Tradingview 'alert' functionality to register an alerts when either of these two conditions are true:
- When the candle colour of TheStrat 2U green candle turns RED
- When the candle colour of TheStrat 2D red candle turns GREEN
The significance of this event is an indication that price might have reversed and is more applicable on higher timeframes .
Explanation of 'TheStrat' trading technique
‘TheStrat’ technique works off the basis of labelling whether the focus candle did or did not break any of the previous candles high or low values. There are three possible label definitions; either a 1 candle, 2 candle or a 3 candle.
1 bar (inside) - If price movement on the new candle remains within the high and low of previous candle.
3 bar (outside) – If price movement went above both the high and the low of the previous candle.
2 bar (directional) – If price movement only broke with the high (called a 2-up) or if price movement only broke the low of the previous candle (called a 2-down).
How does the indicator work?
This indicator will allow the user to be alerted when this colour change happens on any ticker and timeframe you have added the indicator to and then register an alert. The key decisions are which TICKER and which TIMEFRAME to register the alert. It will alert for both these conditions within the single alert.
When a registered alert is running it will continually monitor for these conditions and once per bar it will immediately generate the alert notification using the existing built-in TradingView alert feature. This indicator is not market or timeframe specific, in fact this alerting indicator can be used to register alerts on multiple tickers and timeframes simultaneously.
Example of how to use the indicator
Assume you are interested in being alerted for any colour changing candle on AAPL on the 30min timeframe. You would simply go to that chart (APPL on 30 min), add '2U2DFlip' indicator to the chart, then using the built-in TradingView - 'Create Alert' feature to register the alert that will listening to '2U2DFlip' indicator monitored events. In this example the alert will specifically trigger if it finds a 2U candle turning red or a 2D candle turning green and sends the alert allowing you to jump to the chart to review.
Description of the script
The script defines two conditions that incorporate the specific definition of TheStrat 2U and 2D candles, meaning, that in relation to the previous candle it only 'broke' one side of the previous candle and then adds another condition that monitors if the colour changes (close > open) of the current candle.
How is this useful to a trader?
The 2U and 2D candles are known as 'directional' candles in TheStrat community so the fact that a directional candle has 'changed' direction is a significant indication of a reversal. When this event happens a trader would be notified and is in a position to determine if a reversal play might be in order.
Note to moderators
This code is my own code, based on my other popular indicators. It encompasses the definitions of TheStrat community and trading style and was requested by the community users that trade using TheStrat technique. The reason for the source being protected is that it contains my own method of defining TheStrat and source code of my paid indicator.
Good Luck with trading and I hope this indicator helps to increase the profitability of your portfolio. Happy Trading.
FTFC Watchlist (The Strat)This indicator is a five custom ticker watchlist that shows seven pre-defined higher timeframes using '#TheStrat' technique and can be used on any ticker from common stock, forex and crypto.
Explanation of 'TheStrat' trading technique
‘TheStrat’ technique works off the basis of labelling whether the focus candle did or did not break any of the previous candles high or low values. There are three possible label definitions; either a 1 candle, 2 candle or a 3 candle.
1 bar (inside) - If price movement on the new candle remains within the high and low of previous candle.
3 bar (outside) – If price movement went above both the high and the low of the previous candle.
2 bar (directional) – If price movement only broke with the high (called a 2-up) or if price movement only broke the low of the previous candle (called a 2-down).
Once labelled the technique then looks for certain combination of these labelled candles (called actionable setups) such as: 2-1-2, 1-2-2, 3-1-2.
What is Full Time Frame Continuity (FTFC)
Under 'The Strat' full timeframe continuity is limited to the colour (open vs close) of the candle being either green or red. When higher timeframe align with the 'same colour' is suggest that there is stronger support for that direction of the candle.
How does the indicator work?
The indicator will allow you to daily enter up to 5 watchlist tickers and in as close to real time (slight lag) show the developing FTFC of your watchlist tickers and avoids having to switch chart tickers to see the developing timeframe continuity
Example of how to use the indicator
A simple example will be the relationship between SPY and VIX and by having the higher timeframe overview of these two watchlist tickers while trading will give potential insights to how the market is trading overall.
Some people might also find it useful to see 'consolidation' (1 bar) and 'expansion' (3 bar) highlighted in the timeframe. This feature can be enabled in the settings.
Indicator caveats:
= Must run on 5min (or lower) chart timeframe. If not indicator will produce 'runtime error'.
= Weekly computation is not 100% reliable due to bug in TV when a month end occurs mid week.
= Please change the indicator colour if used on a non-dark theme.
= Please note this information is only presented for educational and learning purposes. It is by no means financial advice or provide any form of trading signals.
TO ENABLE , please follow these steps:
1) Add indicator to your chart and open settings
2) Enter which tickers (max 5) you wish to add to your watchlist by enabling the checkbox
3) Decide on the timeframes you wish to view
4) Configure the colouring of the watchlist.
Hope this indicator provides useful and educational information and helps to improve your overall access to information.
TheStrat AlertsFinally, an indicator that will monitor and send notification for any potential 'TheStrat' candle combination setups.
Explanation of 'TheStrat' trading technique
‘ TheStrat ’ technique works off the basis of labelling whether the focus candle did or did not break any of the previous candles high or low values. There are three possible label definitions; either a 1 candle, 2 candle or a 3 candle.
1 bar (inside) - If price movement on the new candle remains within the high and low of previous candle.
3 bar (outside) – If price movement went above both the high and the low of the previous candle.
2 bar (directional) – If price movement only broke with the high (called a 2-up) or if price movement only broke the low of the previous candle (called a 2-down).
Once labelled the technique then looks for certain combination of these labelled candles (called actionable setups) such as: 2-1-2, 1-2-2, 3-1-2.
How does the indicator work?
This indicator will monitor and alert you when a possible ‘ TheStrat ’ actionable combination is identified on any ticker and timeframe you add the indicator to and then register an alert. The key decisions are which TICKER and which TIMEFRAME to register the alert and lastly what actionable ‘ TheStrat ’ combination to enable in the indicator settings.
When a registered alert is running it will continually monitor for the enabled ' TheStrat ' conditions and upon the bar close of a defined condition, it generates the alert notification using the existing built-in TradingView alert feature. This indicator is not market or timeframe specific, in fact this alerting indicator can be used to register alerts on multiple tickers and timeframes simultaneously.
Example of how to use the indicator
Assume you are interested in being alerted for any ‘2-1-2’ combination on AAPL on the 30min timeframe. You would simply go to that chart (APPL on 30 min), add ' TheStrat Alerts ' indicator to the chart. Ensure the 2-1-x condition is enabled in the indicator setting. Then using the built-in TradingView - 'Create Alert' feature to register the alert that will listening to 'TheStrat Alerts' indicator monitored events. In this example the alert will specifically trigger if it finds a 2-1 bar setup and send the alert of a possible 2-1-2 setup allowing you to jump to the chart to review.
Description of the script
The script work by monitoring the development of new candles and when it finds a potential developing combination it will generate an alert prior to the completion of the actionable signal.
The following 'TheStrat' combinations have been coded.
2-1-? candle setup (expect 2-1-2)
3-1-? candle setup (expect 3-1-2)
1-2-? candle setup (expect 1-2-2 rev)
3-2-? candle setup (expect 3-2-2 rev)
2d-2d-? or 2u-2u-? (expect 2-2 rev)
"Randy Jackson" 2u-2u-2d-? or 2d-2d-2u-? candle setup
5 consecutive 2u or 5 consecutive 2d "Pivot Machine Gun" candle setup
50% retracement after a 2u
50% retracement after a 2d
Failed 2u - candle that closed red, instead of green
Failed 2d - candle that closed green, instead of red.
1-3 "Nirvana" candle setup
1 candle and 3 candle formation
How is this useful to a trader?
This unequivocally original and useful indicator relieves the need to sit and monitor all the tickers and timeframes you can simply place the alert indicator, enable the conditions under which you wish to be alerted and let it monitor for you.
The clear value of the indicator is the increased ability to find potential setups to trade when certain conditions have been identified.
TO ENABLE, please follow these steps:
1) Add indicator to your TICKER choice and TIMEFRAME of your choice.
2) Open the indicator options/settings (cog wheel of indicator) and select the checkboxes to enable which conditions you want to be alerted on. Start off with a few specific setups to get the hang of the indicator. Then OK the indicator setting window to close it.
3) Next find along the of the screen the 'Create Alert' icon (watch icon with + symbol). Click it will open the ' Create Alert ' settings.
4) For CONDITION , drop down and select ' TheStrat Alerts ' so that the alert will listen for the alerts you selected in the indicator settings.
5) Expand 'More options' to select notification preference like pop-up, sound or email
6) Finally click on ' CREATE ' to register the alerts
The indicator will now generate alerts for the options you enabled in the indicator. Please delete and re-register the alert if you changed any settings in the indicator, for example a different condition.
This indicator is not merging multiple indicators as it uses only the default TradingView alert functionality, and the source code is based on my other highly successful free indicator. The indicator does not infer future performance but does notify of the potential actionable ' TheStrat ' setup prior to the completion of the ' TheStrat ' combination. It is also an independent and standalone indicator and does not rely on any of my other published indicators.
This is a paid private invite-only indicator, if you want a trial, please contact me by sending a private message through TradingView.
Good Luck with trading and I hope this indicator helps to increase the profitability of your portfolio. Happy Trading.
TheStrat Teach V2This indicator was coded to help me see, learn and trade TheStrat. Please share with the wider community and good luck trading. See my profile signature for contact details or questions.
// BAR NUMBERS
Using the 1, 2, 3 numbering system on the chart allows you to quickly see various combinations.
- Possibility to up/down ARROWS or the “U/D” text
- Decide which number to show and the colour
- Position and colouring are editable of numbers and bars (1, 2, 3)
- Limited to the last 100 candles for performance.
// TARGET LINES
Add target HIGH and LOW lines with custom timeframe option (default D and previous candle) to identify the target lines for long and short move.
- Possible to reposition target candle focus to previous or current candle
- Added the 50% line for visual reference or use in 0.5 retracement
- Also, possible to show both bull/bears 0.618 lines
- Ability to change all line colours and style
//HIGHER TIME FRAME
Four custom time frames can be selected to show their timeframe HIGH/LOW on lower timeframes which allows you to keep track of important price ranges on higher timeframes.
- Default to M, W, D, 1 hour including pricing labels on each HIGH/LOW line
- Able to change all line colours and styles
// TheSTRAT patterns
Once enabled it shows the various patterns historically for learning purposes to help identify the various #TheSTRAT combo or for to back test patterns.
- Patterns: 2-1-2/1-2-2/3-2-2/3-1-2/2-2-2 Randy Jackson/3-2/2-2/1-3/3-1/Pivot MG
- Added Hammers and Shooters labels
//ALERTS
Added alert conditions to setup alerts on target H/L lines and all four custom H/L lines.
- Triggers when price movement crosses above the HIGH line
- Triggers when price movement crosses below the LOW line
// INFO PANEL
The info panel is a summary information area to show Full Time Frame Continuity (FTFC) and suggests possible actionable setup on the current chart. It is possible to disable sections.
ATR(D) : shows the daily movement potential of the stock over the last 14 days
Num # : Take the percentage drawdown of portfolio size amount divided by the current stock price (15% of 5000 = 750 drawdown max)
Risk $lg : Stop loss risk amount long - shows price difference between the current candle low and previous candle low, assuming you use this for your stop loss x Num #
Risk $lg : Stop loss risk amount short - shows price difference between the current candle low and previous candle low, assuming you use this for your stop loss x Num #
H/4H/D/W/M : Full Time Continuity (FTC) to see if open is above (green) or below (red) close of current candle in that time frame
Actionable? : Suggest if current view have a possible #TheStrat actionable combo
[BM] SSS 50% Rule EvaluatorSara Strat Sniper 50% Rule Evaluator
█ OVERVIEW
This indicator is based on Sara Strat Sniper's - 50% Rule for trading Outside Bars and helps you to evaluate the historical success rate of that rule.
█ FEATURES
Calculation
• You can choose to evaluate only the current bar to see if it forms an outside bar (success) or not (fail), but you can also choose to include the next bar to see if that one forms a compound outside bar.
• You can enable a start and/or end date to limit the calculation period.
Table
• Show or hide the table with the calculation results.
• Show or hide the calculation details (up/down data).
• Position of the table, opacity, cell width and text size can be customized.
Colors
• Table colors can be customized.
• You can choose to show the inside/outside bars in customizable bar colors.
• You can choose to identify successful/failed/recovered outside bars in customizable background colors.
█ LIMITATIONS
• This script uses a special characteristic of the `security()` function allowing the inspection of intrabars — which is not officially supported by TradingView.
• Intrabar inspection only works on some chart timeframes: 5, 10, 15, 30, 45 and 195 minutes, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 hours, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 days, 1, 2, 3 and 4 weeks, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 months. The script’s code can be modified to run on other resolutions.
• There is a limit to how far back intrabar calculations can be performed, and is dependant on both the intrabar resolution and your subscription (which determines the number of available bars).
Inside/Outside Scanner40 tickers max. Can change the tickers in the settings.
Choose to scan for Inside or Outside bars for current bar or previous bar.
Also scans for 2 inside consecutive bars and 3 inside bars starting from the current candle.
Change timeframe in the settings. Default is set to 1D.
Please DM me to get access.
TheStratHelperbased on the teachings of Rob Smith
1= Inside Candle
2= Break on one side
3= Englufing Candle/Outside Candle
Identifies setups like 22, 212, 312, etc
RL=Reverse Long
CL=Continuous Long
RS= Reversal Short
CS=Continuous Short
It can highlight a potential 312 or 122 combination
FTFC=Full time frame continuity
1d is calculated by looking at Monthly, Weekly and Daily timeframe
Intraday is calculated by looking at Monthly, Weekly, Daily and Hourly
A bunch of alerts are available with different combinations including any long or short trade.
Continuous 22 only has the triangles. Nothing written
Most of the colors can be customized
Broadening formations are experimental and only plot using the outside candles
PM me for more info on how to access this indicator
