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# How "Multi-Candle" work ?

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Normally a condition is checked on **one** candle only — the candle you pick in "Candle To Check".

**Multi-Candle** lets you ask for more: the condition must happen **n times inside m candles**. Use it when one single candle is too easy to trigger, and you want the market to confirm the same thing a few times.

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*The condition above triggers when RSI is over 70 on at least 2 of the last 3 candles.*

### Where to find it

Open **Add / Edit condition**. Right under **Candle To Check** there is a row:

```
Multi-Candle: [x]  [ 2 ] times in [ 3 ] Candles
              Window: Current to 2 Previous
```

* Tick the checkbox to turn it on. The two selectors appear only after you tick it.
* Left selector = **n**, how many candles must match.
* Right selector = **m**, how many candles to look at.
* The line under the row always shows the two ends of the window, so you can read exactly which candles are used.
* Some conditions do not call a candle a "candle" — for those the row reads **Multi-Bar: … Bars**, and so on. It works the same way.

### What it means

* **Candle To Check** decides where the window **starts**.
* The window is that candle plus the `m - 1` candles **before** it. It always counts backwards, into the past.
* The condition is met when **at least n candles inside the window match**. They do **not** need to be next to each other.

| Candle To Check | Multi-Candle         | Candles used                    | Met when              |
| --------------- | -------------------- | ------------------------------- | --------------------- |
| Current         | 2 times in 3 Candles | Current, 1 Previous, 2 Previous | 2 or 3 of them match  |
| Current         | 1 times in 5 Candles | Current … 4 Previous            | any 1 of them matches |
| 10 Previous     | 2 times in 3 Candles | 10, 11, 12 Previous             | 2 or 3 of them match  |
| Current         | off                  | Current only                    | Current matches       |

Be careful with the direction when you do not start at "Current". With **Candle To Check = 10 Previous** and **2 times in 3 Candles**, the window is **10, 11, 12 Previous** — it goes further back in time. It is *not* 10, 9, 8 Previous. The "Window:" line under the row always spells this out:

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*Window: 10 Previous to 12 Previous — the window opens at the candle you picked and walks into the past.*

### Example

Condition: **RSI(14) Over 70**, Candle To Check = **Current**, Multi-Candle = **2 times in 3 Candles**.

| 2 Previous | 1 Previous | Current | Result                                                                 |
| ---------- | ---------- | ------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 71.2       | 69.0       | 70.5    | ✅ alert — 2 candles above 70 (they are not side by side, that is fine) |
| 65.0       | 71.5       | 72.0    | ✅ alert — 2 candles above 70                                           |
| 71.2       | 69.0       | 68.4    | ❌ no alert — only 1 candle above 70                                    |

### Which candle is "Current" ?

This follows the **Calculation Mode** of the alert, exactly like a normal single-candle condition:

* **At End of Candle** (called **Closed Candle** on a condition row) — "Current" is the last **closed** candle.
* **Every Minute** (available only when Global Timeframe is **MTF**) — "Current" is the candle that is still forming, checked every minute.

### Rules and limits

* Multi-Candle is for **indicator** conditions. **Patterns** do not have it, because patterns have no candle option at all.
* It appears only for conditions that have **Candle To Check**. A few conditions let you choose a candle for each side separately; those do not use this row.
* **m** starts at 2. **n** can be 1 up to m.
* The window can never go past the oldest candle we keep for that indicator: `Candle To Check + m - 1` must stay inside the "Candle To Check" list. If you move Candle To Check further back, the choices for m get shorter — this is normal, not a bug.
* Each condition in an alert has its **own** n and m. You can mix: one condition with Multi-Candle, another without.
* Every candle in the window is checked with the **same** settings as the condition itself (Cross Over / Over / Under …, and the Distance limit if you use one).
* Leave the checkbox **off** to keep the old behaviour — one candle, exactly as before. Alerts you created earlier are not changed.

### Works together with "must meet" and "number conditions reach target"

Multi-Candle only decides whether **this one condition** is true or false right now. After that, your alert combines the conditions the usual way — see [How "must meet" & "number conditions reach target" work ?](/indicator-alert-feature/how-must-meet-and-number-conditions-reach-target-work.md)

So `2 times in 3 Candles` inside a condition, and `2 of 3 conditions` for the alert, are two different things and can be used together.

### Good to know

* **Not enough history** (new symbol, or you just changed the timeframe): only the candles that really exist are counted. When the history is too short the alert stays quiet instead of triggering early.
* A bigger window does **not** make the alert fire more often. How often an alert may trigger is decided by the alert's own settings, not by Multi-Candle.
* Reading the "Window:" line is the fastest way to be sure: it names the first and the last candle of the window, so there is no doubt about which direction it counts.
* The condition text itself carries the setting, so you can check it later without opening the condition again:

```
RSI(14) Over 70 - (2 times in 3 Candles: Current to 2 Previous)
```

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