Two-bar soldier and crow rules become a system only after filters and exits

A two-bar highlight is not yet a system

The featured technique shortens the classic three-white-soldiers and three-black-crows sequences into two-bar soldier and crow definitions. The shorter one-white-soldier and one-black-crow conditions can fire more often and be used as a reversal highlight.

That highlight is only the first clause of an entry and exit system. The archive workflow then writes explicit scan gates, oscillator exits, and a scan that records what happened after the setup.

How the soldier and crow Booleans are coded

A one-white-soldier is a two-bar bullish reversal: a down-close bar, then an engulfing-style up bar that opens inside the prior body and closes above the prior open, after a short run of lower closes.

The coded soldier Boolean requires a prior down-close after two lower closes, then an up bar that opens above that prior close, closes above that prior open, and opens below that prior open.

A one-black-crow is the bearish counterpart: an up-close bar, then an engulfing-style down bar that opens inside the prior body and closes below the prior open, after a short run of higher closes.

The coded crow Boolean requires a prior up-close after two higher closes, then a down bar that opens below that prior close, closes below that prior open, and opens above that prior open.

Scan gates, a scanner-study, and a paintbar-study

Default scan gates apply a liquidity-filter so the list keeps reasonably traded names. Soldier setups are kept only if the close is at least 1. Crow setups are kept only if the close is at least 10. Both also require 50-bar average volume of at least 100000.

One scanner-study records the setup close and bar. On the last bar it plots percent change from that close, bars elapsed, and whether the last pattern was a soldier or a crow.

A paintbar-study companion colors soldier bars one hue and crow bars another. The same Boolean functions can then be inspected on a chart instead of only in a scan list.

Written exits complete the long and short stacks

A complete long exit stack closes at market after two lower lows. That price-structure-exit sits beside an oscillator-exit: the stack also closes if the 14-period stochastic is at or above 80 or the 14-period RSI is at or above 70. Optional-stops overlay a 3 percent stop-loss and a 5 percent take-profit on the same candle-plus-oscillator skeleton.

The matching short exit stack covers at market after two higher highs. The oscillator-exit covers if the 14-period stochastic is at or below 20 or the 14-period RSI is at or below 30. The same optional 3 percent and 5 percent overlays apply.

Reusable functions make the hypothesis checkable

Multiple platform ports treat the same two-bar rules as reusable functions, exploration filters, or chart studies. A reader can turn the candlestick condition into a coded, checkable hypothesis instead of a one-off chart note.

Editorial interpretation: filters, exits, and a scanner-study are what make the two-bar highlight a system, because those written pieces can later be falsified.