CSPKicking: Kicking Candlestick Pattern
In candlesticks: Candlestick Pattern Recognition

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Note Author(s) References See Also Examples

Look for bullish/bearish Kicking Candlestick Patterns in a OHLC price series

1	CSPKicking(TS, ignoreShadows=TRUE, n=20, threshold=1, ATRFactor=1, maxshadowCL=.1)

`TS`	xts Time Series containing OHLC prices
`ignoreShadows`	if TRUE, only Open and Close Price are evaluated. Hi and Low are ignored.
`n`	number of preceding candles to calculate median candle length or average True Range
`threshold`	minimum candle length in relation to the median candle length of `n` preceding candles
`ATRFactor`	minimum size of candle body compared to the ATR
`maxshadowCL`	maximum tolerated upper and lower shadow to candle length ratio

Number of candle lines: 2

Bullish Kicking Pattern:
The Bullish Kicking Pattern is a White Marubozu following a Black Marubozu. After the Black Marubozu, market gaps higher on the opening and it opens with a gap above the prior session's opening thus forming a White Marubozu. This pattern is filtered with the option ignoreShadows=FALSE, and occurs very scarcely. When ignoreShadows=FALSE, the parameters n, ATRFactor, maxshadowCL are relevant to fine tune the filter rules.

A less strict filter rule is when ignoreShadows=TRUE. In this case, the pattern is detected when a long black candle body follows a long white candle body, and the open of the first candle is lower than the open of the second candle. When ignoreShadows=TRUE, the parameters n and threshold are relevant to fine tune the filter rules.

Bearish Kicking Pattern:
Opposite of Bullish Kicking Pattern.

A xts object containing the columns:

`Bull.Kicking`	TRUE if Bullish Kicking pattern detected
`Bear.Kicking`	TRUE if Bearish Kicking pattern detected

Unlike most other candlestick patterns, the previous market direction is not important for this pattern.

Andreas Voellenklee

The following site(s) were used to code/document this indicator:
http://www.candlesticker.com/Bullish.asp
http://www.candlesticker.com/Bearish.asp

CSPLongCandleBody CSPMarubozu CSPGap

## Not run: 
  getSymbols('YHOO',adjust=TRUE)
  
  # look for Kicking Pattern right out of the textbook
  # they occur only once in a blue moon
  CSPKicking(YHOO, ignoreShadows=FALSE, maxshadowCL=0)
  
  # use less strict filter rules
  CSPKicking(YHOO)

## End(Not run)