Darvas Boxes

Darvas Boxes

Back in the fifty, Nicolas Darvas was a wall-street personality. He used his boxes method, for automatic entry and stoploss, and made a fortune ..

Darvas identified the high of a box file once that action had not reached a high after three consecutive days and ditto for the lower limit, no new low after 3 consecutive days. Other criteria were also considered to constitute an input point.

But each overflow of the high limit once he was in position, he made a new entry with new add orders. The stop was always placed on the lower limit of the box

Warning from “hk-lisse” on his blog:

  1. Indicator introduce a bullish bias because to form a new box, we always start to draw it from the top
  2. The code make use of future price that are not known at present time

    For drawing purpose : add a fill color between the 1 and 2 return values.
    Set the first one in points, the second  and third one in large points.

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  1. eyal • 03/15/2016 #

    hi how do i place this code on the chart itself?  the site only allows me to write the code only when i click the indicator box but then this indicator shows below the chart !!
    if i click the wranch tool it doesnt open the code writing page !!
    another thing i wanted to ask is – i have another code for darvas box  but i cant insert it into the site it wont eccept it
    can u help me with solving what is wrong with the code
     
    n=4
    h=highest[n]
    l=lowest[n]
    once b=2
    v=h
    if h=high[n-1] and high[n-1] > high and high[n-1] > low and {b = 1 or b = 2 } then
                   v=h
                   b=0
    else
                   if l = low[n-1] and low[n-1] < low and low[n-1] < high and { b = 0 or b = 2 } then
                                    v = 1
                                    b = 1
                   else
                                     v = v[1]
                   endif
    endif
    return v
     
     

  2. eyal • 03/15/2016 #

     
    hi sorry …i got it i pasted your indicator so it went into the site list of indicators then i clicked on the wranch of the price chart and added it on the chart so i see it on the price chart now but how do i paint it
    and can you help me with my code ?
    thanks
     

  3. Philip Raphael • 03/15/2016 #

    Thanks so much for sharing this excellent strategy! In my PRT 2.0 version it fits best when Box > Box3 and  is sold when Box3 >= Box. The results are unbelievable! Thank you so much! 

  4. Philip Raphael • 03/15/2016 #

    PRT says, that “the instruction “DPO” can not be used in the automated trading mode. What does that mean, guys? Unfortunately by that I can’t use it. Does anyone know what this means?

  5. Dudu • 03/15/2016 #

    Hi – I find the Darvas box repaints, making the call to buy/sell unreliable. How can repainting be prevented? The issue occurs on all time scales.

  6. Bard • 03/15/2016 #

    https://www.prorealcode.com/topic/dpo/

    Results: http://thepatternsite.com/Darvas.html

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