CDLABANDONEDBABY

Summary

A three-candle reversal pattern: a long body, then a gapped-away doji, then a body of opposite color that gaps back the other way and closes deep into the first body. Bullish (bottom) or bearish (top) reversal signal. Nonzero hit signals a reversal: +100 abandoned baby bottom (bullish), -100 abandoned baby top (bearish).

Notes

Does not verify the prior trend the pattern classically assumes for significance.

Inputs

inPriceOHLC — Open, High, Low, Close price series

Outputs

outInteger — +100 at a bullish abandoned baby bottom (3^rd candle white), -100 at a bearish abandoned baby top (3^rd candle black), 0 otherwise; sign = color of the 3^rd candle

Parameters

optInPenetration — Fraction of the 1^st candle's real body the 3^rd close must penetrate; default 0.3, range [0, TA_REAL_MAX]

Implementation

TA-Lib Definition: cdlabandonedbaby.c · cdlabandonedbaby.yaml

Native	File
C	`ta_CDLABANDONEDBABY.c`
Rust	`cdlabandonedbaby.rs`
Java	`Core.java`

TA-Lib is also available for Python, R and more using a wrapper.

Aliases

Abandoned Baby