Smaller Fractals (+ Transparency)
I find that fractals are super useful, but can visually clutter up the chart pretty quickly. Their opaqueness and just overall bigness can become a bit much.
As such, these are just like regular fractals, only smaller (pine script’ssize.tiny
instead of the default size.small
).
Also, you can set a transparency level to these little guys (default is 50%).
Simple, more polite, and hopefully more useful fractals for those wnting a cleaner looking chart.
backtest
/*backtest start: 2022-05-03 00:00:00 end: 2022-05-09 23:59:00 period: 1h basePeriod: 15m exchanges: [{"eid":"Futures_Binance","currency":"BTC_USDT"}] */ //@version=5 indicator("(Smaller) Williams Fractals", shorttitle="Tiny Fractals", format=format.price, precision=0, overlay=true) // Define "n" as the number of periods and keep a minimum value of 2 for error handling. n = input.int(title="Periods", defval=2, minval=2) clr_trans = input.int(title="Fractal Transparency", defval=50) // UpFractal bool upflagDownFrontier = true bool upflagUpFrontier0 = true bool upflagUpFrontier1 = true bool upflagUpFrontier2 = true bool upflagUpFrontier3 = true bool upflagUpFrontier4 = true for i = 1 to n upflagDownFrontier := upflagDownFrontier and (high[n-i] < high[n]) upflagUpFrontier0 := upflagUpFrontier0 and (high[n+i] < high[n]) upflagUpFrontier1 := upflagUpFrontier1 and (high[n+1] <= high[n] and high[n+i + 1] < high[n]) upflagUpFrontier2 := upflagUpFrontier2 and (high[n+1] <= high[n] and high[n+2] <= high[n] and high[n+i + 2] < high[n]) upflagUpFrontier3 := upflagUpFrontier3 and (high[n+1] <= high[n] and high[n+2] <= high[n] and high[n+3] <= high[n] and high[n+i + 3] < high[n]) upflagUpFrontier4 := upflagUpFrontier4 and (high[n+1] <= high[n] and high[n+2] <= high[n] and high[n+3] <= high[n] and high[n+4] <= high[n] and high[n+i + 4] < high[n]) flagUpFrontier = upflagUpFrontier0 or upflagUpFrontier1 or upflagUpFrontier2 or upflagUpFrontier3 or upflagUpFrontier4 upFractal = (upflagDownFrontier and flagUpFrontier) // downFractal bool downflagDownFrontier = true bool downflagUpFrontier0 = true bool downflagUpFrontier1 = true bool downflagUpFrontier2 = true bool downflagUpFrontier3 = true bool downflagUpFrontier4 = true for i = 1 to n downflagDownFrontier := downflagDownFrontier and (low[n-i] > low[n]) downflagUpFrontier0 := downflagUpFrontier0 and (low[n+i] > low[n]) downflagUpFrontier1 := downflagUpFrontier1 and (low[n+1] >= low[n] and low[n+i + 1] > low[n]) downflagUpFrontier2 := downflagUpFrontier2 and (low[n+1] >= low[n] and low[n+2] >= low[n] and low[n+i + 2] > low[n]) downflagUpFrontier3 := downflagUpFrontier3 and (low[n+1] >= low[n] and low[n+2] >= low[n] and low[n+3] >= low[n] and low[n+i + 3] > low[n]) downflagUpFrontier4 := downflagUpFrontier4 and (low[n+1] >= low[n] and low[n+2] >= low[n] and low[n+3] >= low[n] and low[n+4] >= low[n] and low[n+i + 4] > low[n]) flagDownFrontier = downflagUpFrontier0 or downflagUpFrontier1 or downflagUpFrontier2 or downflagUpFrontier3 or downflagUpFrontier4 downFractal = (downflagDownFrontier and flagDownFrontier) plotshape(downFractal, style=shape.triangledown, location=location.belowbar, offset=-n, color=color.new(#F44336,clr_trans), size = size.tiny) plotshape(upFractal, style=shape.triangleup, location=location.abovebar, offset=-n, color=color.new(#009688,clr_trans), size = size.tiny) if upFractal strategy.entry("Enter Long", strategy.long) else if downFractal strategy.entry("Enter Short", strategy.short)