{
  "id": 494,
  "rank": 15,
  "name": "Candlestick Momentum Confirmation for Classic Crossover",
  "aka": [
    "Candlestick Confirmation for Crossover Strategy"
  ],
  "family": "A",
  "subtype": "A9",
  "one_liner": "Uses moving average crossovers as alerts, requiring momentum and retracement before executing trades.",
  "market_regime": "any",
  "timeframes": [
    "M15"
  ],
  "symbols": [
    "_Symbol"
  ],
  "sessions": [
    "null"
  ],
  "indicators": [
    {
      "name": "iMA",
      "params": {
        "period": "FastMAPeriod",
        "shift": 0,
        "mode": "MODE_SMA",
        "price": "PRICE_CLOSE"
      },
      "applied_to": "close"
    }
  ],
  "entry_long": [
    "Bullish crossover: Fast MA crosses above Slow MA",
    "Momentum candle: Close > Open and body >= MomentumBodyMinPips",
    "Retracement: Next bar is inside momentum range or has a lower high"
  ],
  "entry_short": [
    "Bearish crossover: Fast MA crosses below Slow MA",
    "Momentum candle: Close < Open and body >= MomentumBodyMinPips",
    "Retracement: Next bar is inside momentum range or has a higher low"
  ],
  "exit_rules": [
    "null"
  ],
  "filters": [
    "null"
  ],
  "stop_loss": "Stop loss is placed beyond the momentum extreme by StopLossBufferPips",
  "take_profit": "Take profit is calculated as Entry + (Entry - SL) * RiskRewardRatio",
  "position_size": "LotSize",
  "evidence_type": "source_code",
  "completeness": 80.0,
  "signal_warnings": null,
  "claim_warnings": null,
  "opacity_warnings": null,
  "build_warnings": null,
  "canonical": "https://prismaticalgos.com/compendium/algo/494-candlestick-momentum-confirmation-for-classic-crossover",
  "snapshot": "2026-10-31 15:46 UTC",
  "source_url": "https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/23620",
  "limitations": "These are machine-extracted research records, not verified trading systems. Catalog rank measures specification detail and claimed evidence, not profitability. The catalog extraction pipeline did not independently backtest these records. Its separate selected testing ledger does not validate the wider corpus. Rules, labels and parameters can be incomplete or wrong; consult the original source and its reuse terms."
}