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Do candlestick patterns work on their own? A systematic FX back-test using Python.

Approaching candlesticks in a systematic way.

Sofien Kaabar, CFA
10 min readMay 14, 2020

Throughout the huge field of pattern recognition trading, we find some very popular technical patterns that always come up in every technical analysis class, but do they really work? That is, on their own. Remember that, when we say a bullish candle, we refer to a green-colored (or a white one) one and the same thing goes with bearish candles (red or black body).

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INTRODUCTION TO CANDLESTICK PATTERNS

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Dark-cloud pattern

This is a bearish pattern formed from two candles. The first candle is a bullish…

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Sofien Kaabar, CFA
Sofien Kaabar, CFA

Written by Sofien Kaabar, CFA

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