Heikin Ashi Candles
Overview
Heikin Ashi candles transform chaotic price action into smooth, visually intuitive patterns by averaging open, high, low, and close values with previous candle data to create modified bars that clearly reveal trend strength and direction. The close averages all four price points of the current bar, the open averages the previous Heikin Ashi open and close, while highs and lows incorporate the actual extremes, resulting in candles that show fewer gaps and more consistent coloring during trends. Strong bullish momentum appears as a series of green candles with no lower wicks, indicating buyers maintain complete control, while bearish pressure manifests as red candles lacking upper wicks where sellers dominate entirely. Traders identify trend reversals when candles develop small bodies with long wicks on both sides, forming doji patterns that signal indecision after extended moves. The smoothing effect eliminates minor retracements that create false signals on regular charts, allowing traders to stay with trends longer without getting shaken out by normal volatility. Moreover, Heikin Ashi excels at confirming breakouts since the transformation reduces noise around key levels, showing clean candle closes beyond resistance or support that provide higher confidence entry signals than traditional candlestick patterns.
Implementation Examples
Rust API for Heikin Ashi Candles is not yet available in this repository. Examples will be added once implemented.
Coming soon: idiomatic Rust usage once the indicator is added to vectorta::indicators.
API Reference
Input Methods ▼
Coming soon: constructors for OHLC/OHLCV inputs once implemented.
Parameters Structure ▼
No tunable parameters are expected for Heikin Ashi candles.
Output Structure ▼
Coming soon: output fields for HA open/high/low/close.
Validation, Warmup & NaNs ▼
- Coming soon: behavior of first-bar seed and propagation with missing values.
Error Handling ▼
Coming soon: concrete error enum and examples.
Python Bindings
Python bindings coming soon.
JavaScript/WASM Bindings
WASM bindings coming soon.
CUDA
CUDA support for Heikin Ashi Candles is planned. API details will follow established patterns once implemented.
Performance Analysis
Across sizes, Rust CPU runs about 1.14× faster than Tulip C in this benchmark.
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (CPU) | NVIDIA RTX 4090 (GPU)