Candlestick formation · Bullish
What is it, in one line
A bullish hikkake where the candle before the mother bar closed near its low.
Bullish · 5 candles · verdict: rule and thresholds below
A bullish hikkake where the candle before the mother bar closed near its low. The engine checks the formation as an executable condition over open, high, low and close, with a trend filter applied before the count is kept.
Method
The hikkake setup with one extra condition: the candle preceding the mother bar closed near the mother bar’s low, so the trap forms directly off a level rather than in open space.
The traditional claim
Traditionally treated as the higher-quality version of the hikkake.
How this detection is wrong
Every modified hikkake is also a hikkake. The extra condition is one comparison, and whether it earns its own name is exactly the sort of thing the counts will settle.
Published so the count can be reproduced. Every figure below is a parameter of the rule, not a preference: change one and the occurrence count changes with it.
| Parameter | Meaning | Default |
|---|---|---|
| minMotherRangeAtr | range of the enclosing bar, at least, in ATR | 0.5 |
| matchTolAtr | how closely two levels must match, in ATR | 0.15 |
| atrPeriod | bars of ATR used to size everything below | 14 |
These share enough geometry that a detector can return more than one of them on the same bar. The engine reports every match rather than picking a winner.
Every pair on the site that can be mistaken for another, and what separates each: the look-alikes index.
The hikkake setup with one extra condition: the candle preceding the mother bar closed near the mother bar’s low, so the trap forms directly off a level rather than in open space.
It is read as bullish. Traditionally treated as the higher-quality version of the hikkake.
Every modified hikkake is also a hikkake. The extra condition is one comparison, and whether it earns its own name is exactly the sort of thing the counts will settle.
As an executable rule over open, high, low and close, with 3 named parameters — including range of the enclosing bar, at least, in ATR 0.5, how closely two levels must match, in ATR 0.15, bars of ATR used to size everything below 14 — all published on this page so the count can be reproduced. Strict and loose variants are defined as well, so the sensitivity of the count to those thresholds is visible rather than assumed.
Measurement pending re-run
No hit rate is published here yet. The run that would supply one was computed on engine ca6d9e36c81c; the engine is now cfb08765de7c. Its candlestick rows included the still-forming bar, and it predates the chart formations entirely, so those figures have been withdrawn rather than published with a caveat. The definition above is unaffected: it is what the detector tests, and no re-run changes it.
This formation has a mirror
Its mirror is the same construction inverted, read in the opposite direction. Everything the two rules test is the same except the sign, so the thresholds on this page apply equally to both — and a result measured for one says nothing about the other until the other is measured too.
Bearish Modified Hikkake: A bearish hikkake where the candle before the mother bar closed near its high.