This strategy is taken from Perry Kaufman's book "Trading System and Methods". You can enter on the direction of the candle, or opposite to it. I find that the opposite tends to yield better results in volatile assets, allowing a better reward to risk ratio. There is no stop loss in this strategy, only a fixed take profit and a time limitation.
This indicator is based on the high probability candlestick patterns described in the ’Secrets of a Pivot Boss’ book. The indicator does not suffer from repainting. I have kept this indicator open source, so that you can take this indicator and design a complete trading system around it. Although the patterns have some statistical edge in the markets,...