{
  "id": 86,
  "rank": 747,
  "name": "N Candles v6",
  "aka": [
    "N Candles v2",
    "N Candles v3",
    "N Candles v4",
    "N Candles v5"
  ],
  "family": "J",
  "subtype": "J4",
  "one_liner": "Buys on bullish candlesticks and sells on bearish ones after finding N identical candlesticks in a row, with options for handling 'black sheep' candles.",
  "market_regime": "any",
  "timeframes": [
    "D1"
  ],
  "symbols": [
    "AUDJPY",
    "EURCHF",
    "AUDUSD",
    "USDJPY",
    "GBPUSD",
    "USDCHF",
    "USDCAD",
    "EURCAD",
    "#AA",
    "EURJPY",
    "EURUSD"
  ],
  "sessions": [],
  "indicators": [
    {
      "name": "iChaikin",
      "params": null,
      "applied_to": null
    },
    {
      "name": "iMA",
      "params": null,
      "applied_to": null
    }
  ],
  "entry_long": [
    "N identical bullish candlesticks in a row"
  ],
  "entry_short": [
    "N identical bearish candlesticks in a row"
  ],
  "exit_rules": [
    "Closing all positions, Closing positions, which are opposite to the 'black sheep', Closing positions, which are in the same direction as the 'black sheep'"
  ],
  "filters": [
    "Use trade hours - enable/disable the time filter",
    "Start hour - trading start hour",
    "End hour - trading end hour"
  ],
  "stop_loss": "not used if set to 0",
  "take_profit": "not used if set to 0",
  "position_size": "Lot - position volume",
  "evidence_type": "backtest_shown",
  "completeness": 50.0,
  "signal_warnings": null,
  "claim_warnings": [
    "HIGH PROFIT FACTOR: claimed 3.06. Treat as an in-sample or curve-fitted figure until reproduced out of sample.",
    "THIN SAMPLE: 45 trades - below the ~100 needed before a win rate or profit factor carries much information."
  ],
  "opacity_warnings": [
    "UNDEFINED ENTRY TERM: the entry conditions are prose naming a concept with no numeric definition, so two readers would implement them differently. Advisory only -- this does not affect the score."
  ],
  "build_warnings": null,
  "canonical": "https://prismaticalgos.com/compendium/algo/86-n-candles-v6",
  "snapshot": "2026-10-31 15:46 UTC",
  "source_url": "https://www.mql5.com/en/code/20000",
  "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."
}