TRADESTATION USERS:
I have developed for myself quite a few innovative indicators and layouts for use in the Tradestation platform – including the Pinball pattern and the Rounded Bottom Breakout. Some have already been purchased by other TS users; some I am using but have not yet set them up to sell and support.
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PINBALL FINDER scan results:
Type 1 closed inside "buy area"; Type 2 closed above "buy area." Ticker Close % to Tgt Type Volume today VLD 1.51 10.89 1 1,163,340 SSP 6.81 18.20 1 1,244,287 ATAI 1.49 10.67 1 571,479 CDXS 1.76 19.53 1 745,963 CLVR 3.90 36.48 1 287,148 DDL 1.87 18.15 1 586,045 DFLI 1.76 11.05 1 301,264 DMTK 2.10 15.17 1 297,462 SMMT 1.63 9.82 1 729,192 DSGN 2.67 46.80 1 683,524 FF 6.99 11.01 1 628,033 GTHX 1.69 12.96 1 345,628 SKYX 1.64 15.02 1 642,985 OM 13.78 11.61 1 671,625 LU 1.21 11.63 1 7,250,264 NVEI 18.11 17.49 1 336,292 MODV 31.00 18.29 1 553,385 NOTE 2.18 19.41 1 569,505 NSSC 24.27 20.06 1 580,231 VERV 12.97 16.26 1 749,785 IBRX 1.54 18.47 2 10,007,262 ORGN 1.54 43.02 2 2,982,551 RRGB 10.57 9.46 2 293,895 HYLN 1.27 9.90 2 988,444 SLQT 1.29 9.63 2 1,280,428 DNMR 2.01 8.68 2 681,636 AMTX 5.43 5.32 2 2,752,376 TSP 1.44 10.36 2 1,592,899 ME 1.14 15.26 2 2,121,489 ALEC 5.83 7.62 2 1,630,089 Results as of: 9/11/2023 at 18:45
NOTE: We have changed the calculation of “% to Target” to be
“percent from CLOSE to 34ema” rather than “percent from 8ema to 34ema.”
Info on getting your own copy of the PinballFinder for Tradestation can be found
at http://pinball.tsindicators.info/ …
The “pinball pattern” was detected and perfected by Rick Saddler, who runs the
HitAndRunCandlesticks.com website and blog. He runs a “live trading room” where
his down-to-earth coaching and teaching covers many other patterns and styles as
well as the Pinball Strategy.
ROUNDED-BOTTOM [Frypan Bottom] Breakout scan
(From time to time, we will also post the results of
Rick Saddler’s ’rounded bottom breakout’ scan —
info on this scanner, for Tradestation, can be found at
A description of the RBB (Frypan Bottom) can be found at
Ticker Type Close Volume Today ( 1= aggressive 2= conservative )
No symbols met the selected criteria tonight.
One of Steve Bigalow’s (CandlestickForum.com) favorite patterns is
the BEST FRIEND — bullish: a doji with stochastics oversold followed by a gap up, or Bearish: a doji with stochastics in overbought followed by a gap down.
[For this scan, we’ve set overbought > 80 and oversold < 20; user can check chart for trading decisions. Stochastic is 7,7,2] Min. price = $5.00; Volume today > 1,000,000 shares; previous doji <= 1% of open price of the share. Here’s my scan for that pattern tonight:
Ticker Type % chg today Close Vol Today Direction [ 1 = Bullish, -1 = Bearish ] FTXG 1 0.88 25.08 1,308,635 HSBC 1 1.35 37.47 1,968,390 KHC 1 2.09 33.63 10,682,283 MDT 1 1.80 81.40 5,465,447 SBSW 1 4.02 5.69 3,818,482 Results as of: 9/11/2023 at 18:37
Hit and Run Candlesticks
Original Pinball Article by Rick Saddler
Pinball Finder User Guide (PDF)
pinball trading 
I would like to THANK YOU again for the work you do to support those of us who trade stocks. I am sure Rick, Doug, Ed and John are very appreciative of your work as well. Keep doing what you are doing.