Short White Candle
A Short White Candle is first off a White Candle which opens below the close.
O < C
A Short Black Candle is also a Short Candle. The following formula checks for the body to be more than 50% shorter than the mean body size over the most recent 15 candles. It can use C - O
instead of ABS(O - C)
at the beginning of the formula because we know O < C
.
C - O < AVG(ABS(O - C), 15) / 2
Combining these formulas results in the following.
O < C AND C - O < AVG(ABS(O - C), 15) / 2