Fractals Indicator Calculator
Find confirmed five-bar local high and low markers from entered completed bars, while keeping the last two bars explicitly pending.
Enter ordered high-low bars
Use completed bars from one symbol, timeframe and broker feed.
One completed bar per line. Commas, semicolons or tabs are accepted.
Latest eligible five-bar center
Entered Bill Williams Structure Indicators 1.0.0.
| Label | Index | High | Low | Confirmation | Marker |
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How confirmed five-bar fractals are identified
Down at i when Low[i] is strictly less than Low[i−2], Low[i−1], Low[i+1] and Low[i+2]
Version 1.0.0 applies the standard five-successive-bar definition. Equal neighboring highs or lows do not pass the strict lower-high or higher-low requirement.
A center requires two completed bars after it, so the newest two entered rows remain pending. A wide center bar can independently satisfy both strict high and strict low conditions; the page reports both instead of forcing one label.
Assumptions and limits
- At least five ordered high-low bars are required.
- Rows must be oldest to newest and use one symbol, timeframe and feed.
- The newest two entered bars cannot be confirmed because two later bars do not exist.
- Tied highs or lows fail the strict five-bar test.
- Markers are descriptive local extrema only; reversal, breakout, support, resistance and trade labels are withheld.
Worked example from the audited fixture
How to interpret the result
The final two bars remain unclassified because a five-bar center needs two later completed bars. A confirmed local extreme is only a strict geometric comparison inside this entered sample, not a reversal, support, resistance or entry signal.
Frequently asked questions
- Enter at least five ordered high-low bars from one symbol, timeframe and broker feed.
- The center high must be strictly greater than the highs of the two bars before and the two bars after it.
- The center low must be strictly lower than the lows of the two bars before and the two bars after it.
- A center cannot be confirmed until two later completed bars exist.
- The strict lower-high or higher-low condition fails, so no corresponding marker is reported.
- Yes. A sufficiently wide center bar can independently have the highest high and lowest low in its five-bar window.
- Only when the same completed bars, symbol, timeframe and feed are used.
- No. The page reports a local extremum without reversal, support, resistance, breakout, entry or exit classification.
Sources and methodology
- MetaTrader 5 Help — Fractals — Official five-bar middle-high and middle-low definition.
- MQL5 Reference — iFractals — Official upper and lower indicator-buffer contract.
- MQL5 Reference — Indicator Lines — Official Fractals upper-line and lower-line identifiers.
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