Inside Bar (Body-based) Ind/AlertDescription:
This indicator detects Inside Bar patterns based strictly on the candle body (open/close range) of the mother candle, rather than the traditional high/low wick method. An inside bar is highlighted when the current candle’s entire body is contained within the body of the previous candle.
It can be useful for traders who want a more conservative and reliable definition of inside bars, focusing on true consolidation periods and filtering out signals caused by extended wicks.
Features:
Body-based Inside Bar detection:
The indicator colors and marks candles where the current bar’s body is fully within the previous bar’s body.
Bullish/Bearish identification:
Bullish inside bars are marked in green, bearish in red.
Double Inside Bar Detection:
An optional feature marks when two consecutive candles’ bodies are inside the same mother bar body—potentially indicating stronger consolidation.
Alerts:
Set alerts for single or double inside bars for automated monitoring.
How to Use:
Add the indicator to your chart.
Look for colored bars or plotted shapes for inside bar signals based on candle bodies.
Use alerts to get notified in real time when inside bar patterns appear.
Note:
This script uses only the candle body (open and close) for inside bar calculations, which may help filter out less reliable signals found with wick-based approaches.
Inside-bar
Inside Bars (Multiple / Consecutive)Description
When an inside bar is found, the indicator remembers the high and low (= range) of the candle before the inside bar.
As long as price moves within the range, every bar is highlighted as an inside bar to the range.
Purpose
The indicator can assist when identifying valid pullbacks and buy-side liquidity (BSL) / sell-side liquidity (SSL).
Strategy Myth-Busting #10 - InsideBar+EMA - [MYN]This is part of a new series we are calling "Strategy Myth-Busting" where we take open public manual trading strategies and automate them. The goal is to not only validate the authenticity of the claims but to provide an automated version for traders who wish to trade autonomously.
Our 10th one we are automating is the " 75% Win Rate High Profit Inside Bar Trading Strategy - What If You ... " strategy from " Trade Pro " who claims to have backtested this manually and achieved 11,063% profit with a 75% winrate over 100 trades. I was unable to emulate these results consistently accommodating for slippage and commission but even so, the results look promising. I was only able to achieve this win-rate with some multiple take profit staggering. Even so the markdown is above where I would normally consider comfortable (>20%).
If you know of or have a strategy you want to see myth-busted or just have an idea for one, please feel free to message me.
This strategy uses a combination of 2 open-source public indicators:
Inside Bar Ind/Alert by CMA
EMA (built-in)
Trading Rules
4 hour candles
Stop Loss at EMA Line with TP Target 1.5x the risk
Long Entry when these conditions are true
inside bar and bullish
Bar close's above 50 ema
Price action rises above high of inside bar .
Short Entry when these conditions are true
inside bar and bearish
Bar close below 50 ema
Price action falls below low of inside bar
Babypips: Inside Bar Momentum StrategyThe strategy contained in this post comes courtesy of babypips (.com), an excellent resource for all thing forex related. If you are new to trading, the site is definitely worth checking out!
Code commentary and an introduction to Inside Bars are available for this post on the Backtest-Rookies (.com) website.
Note: If you are interested in custom development services, please check out our services page on the Backtest-Rookies site.
Strategy Overview
Inside Bar Momentum Strategy.
Inside Bar Detection
Position sizing based on stoploss distance ( Note: Based on equity and assumes that the account currency is the counter currency.
Stop buys for entries
Takeprofit / Stoplosses for exits
Control Stopbuy, Takeprofit and Stoploss targets with inputs
Control Backtest start/end dates
Price Action Awesome IndicatorThis indicator is everything you need to do Price Action Trading.
It provides signals about:
Inside Bars
Pin Bars
Fakey Pin Bars (background color red or green for bearish or bullish fakeys)
Inside Bar Breakout FailureSimple indicator to highlight Inside Bar Breakout Failure patterns on chart.
jc-Inside_BarCopyright by jack calo -- v1.0 -- 03/04/2015 -- Paint the bar yellow when it's an inside day. When the full range of a candle is equal or within the full range of the previous bar. Credit to Rob Smith and his In The Black Strategy.
