FTB-C000645 / Implementation concept

Prior Rise Requirement

Prior Rise Requirement is the minimum directional rise required before a double-top candidate is considered a reversal structure.

Definitions

In plain terms

A double top needs a qualifying lead-in rather than two highs inside an arbitrary range.

Technical

The canonical contract requires prior directional move >= 0.03 before the first structural high.

Scope

This filter is an implementation boundary, not evidence that every reversal needs the same trend length.

Examples

  • A reviewer computes Prior Rise Requirement on a deterministic close fixture and checks pivot timing, threshold equality, neckline behavior, and rejection diagnostics before publication.

Common misconceptions

  • This filter is an implementation boundary, not evidence that every reversal needs the same trend length.

Concept relationships

Where this concept is used

Evidence and governance

  1. Members' Guide to 2021 Refresher Readings CFA Institute · first party methodology

    Supports: preferred label, short definition, technical definition, variant distinction

    Limits: The curriculum does not prescribe this package's pivot window, numeric thresholds, causal state machine, or performance claim.

  2. 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, variant distinction

    Limits: The paper's smoothing, sample, and empirical design are not copied into this package and do not validate its thresholds.

  3. Pine Script repainting concepts TradingView · official platform documentation

    Supports: preferred label, short definition, technical definition, variant distinction

    Limits: Platform display behavior does not establish financial usefulness or predictive value.

  4. scipy.signal.find_peaks SciPy · first party technical publication

    Supports: preferred label, short definition, technical definition, variant distinction

    Limits: This retrospective signal function is not itself a causal OHLC pivot detector.

  5. Pine Script pivot techniques TradingView · official platform documentation

    Supports: preferred label, short definition, technical definition, variant distinction

    Limits: The package freezes its own equality, separation, and OHLC policies rather than claiming one universal pivot definition.

  6. Zig Zag indicator QuantConnect · official platform documentation

    Supports: preferred label, short definition, technical definition, variant distinction

    Limits: This package selects a close-only percentage-reversal variant and documents the difference.

  7. LEAN ZigZag source QuantConnect · first party technical publication

    Supports: preferred label, short definition, technical definition, variant distinction

    Limits: A maintained implementation is evidence for one convention, not a universal market rule.

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fintech-builder-batch-012
Last reviewed
2026-08-10
Next review
2027-08-10
Record status
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