By Islam BarakaDefinitions
In plain terms
The head must be meaningfully higher than both shoulders under the selected margin.
Technical
dominance=(head-mean_shoulder_level)/mean_shoulder_level and canonical dominance must be >= 0.05.
Scope
A small high above the shoulders routes to a triple-top-style distinction instead.
Formula
dominance=(head-mean_shoulder_level)/mean_shoulder_leveld=\frac{h-\bar p}{\bar p}| Symbol | Meaning | Unit |
|---|---|---|
h | head high | price |
bar_p | mean shoulder level | price |
Output unit: fraction
Examples
- A reviewer computes Head Dominance on a deterministic close fixture and checks pivot timing, threshold equality, neckline behavior, and rejection diagnostics before publication.
Common misconceptions
- A small high above the shoulders routes to a triple-top-style distinction instead.
Concept relationships
Where this concept is used
Evidence and governance
- Members' Guide to 2021 Refresher Readings CFA Institute · first party methodology
Supports: preferred label, short definition, technical definition, formula
Limits: The curriculum does not prescribe this package's pivot window, numeric thresholds, causal state machine, or performance claim.
- Foundations of Technical Analysis: Computational Algorithms, Statistical Inference, and Empirical Implementation Lo, Mamaysky, and Wang · first party technical publication
Supports: preferred label, short definition, technical definition, formula
Limits: The paper's smoothing, sample, and empirical design are not copied into this package and do not validate its thresholds.
- Pine Script repainting concepts TradingView · official platform documentation
Supports: preferred label, short definition, technical definition, formula
Limits: Platform display behavior does not establish financial usefulness or predictive value.
- scipy.signal.find_peaks SciPy · first party technical publication
Supports: preferred label, short definition, technical definition, formula
Limits: This retrospective signal function is not itself a causal OHLC pivot detector.
- Pine Script pivot techniques TradingView · official platform documentation
Supports: preferred label, short definition, technical definition, formula
Limits: The package freezes its own equality, separation, and OHLC policies rather than claiming one universal pivot definition.
- Reviewed by
- fintech-builder-batch-012
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-10
- Next review
- 2027-08-10
- Record status
- evidence reviewed
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