Bearish and bullish candles?

[siavash]

I am planing to program an indicator needing to determine the candle status(bearish or bullish). how can I code this?

[backtrader]

As you may understand, the definition of bearish and bullish may be clear to you, but may not be so obvious for some other people.

For example:

• Is it bullish because the high of the day is higher than the high of previous day?

There are many more variants ... but for example for that case you would compare: self.data.high[0] against self.data.high[-1]

[siavash]

@backtrader
I mean that the candle is increasing is bullish ( its open is lower than its close).

[backtrader]

self.data.open < self.data.close?

[siavash]

@backtrader
Thanks for your help.
Is there any indicator that I can use to code my indicator regarding bearish and bullish candle as i explained above?

[backtrader]

There is no indicator, you have to code the comparison of the points you want as pointed out above

@backtrader said in Bearish and bullish candles?:

self.data.open < self.data.close