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Chandelier exit calculator

A trailing stop that hangs 3 ATRs below the highest high, for longs and shorts.

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The bars

Oldest first, at least 23 bars. Three numbers per bar, bars split by semicolons: 2295.6 2282.7 2286.3; 2294.8 2278.4 2281.9

The chandelier exit

Long stop 2,366.87, 76.73 below the close; short stop 2,335.43, 108.17 below it.

The stops
The highest high of the last 22 bars is 2,446.20 and the lowest low 2,256.10. The 22-bar ATR is 26.44, so each stop hangs 3 ATRs (79.33) from that extreme. The close is above the long stop and above the short stop: a long trade would still be open; a short one would have been stopped.
How it is used
On a long trade the stop only follows the highest high up: as long as the trend makes new highs, the stop climbs. Traders usually keep the stop where it was if the line drops, so it never loosens.
Read it with care
Three ATRs leave room for normal swings, so the exit gives back part of the move by design. A gap can jump past the stop, and the line describes the past bars, not the next one.

The close, the 22-bar ATR and the long and short chandelier stops (3 ATRs) on the last bars. The last bar is marked.

BarCloseATRLong stopShort stop
7 ago2,391.5026.502,316.912,326.69
6 ago2,380.5026.812,321.072,327.63
5 ago2,399.1026.912,321.662,327.94
4 ago2,412.5026.562,335.622,326.88
3 ago2,430.8027.182,353.062,328.74
2 ago2,427.4027.132,364.412,328.59
1 ago2,432.4026.512,366.282,326.72
Last2,443.6026.442,366.872,335.43

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A stop that hangs from the high

Chuck LeBeau named it after a chandelier hanging from the ceiling: the stop hangs a fixed number of average true ranges below the highest high since the trade began, usually 3 ATRs over 22 bars, about a month of daily bars. In a quiet market the stop sits close; when the swings widen, it drops back to give the trade room.

Measure the swings with the ATR calculator, compare with the Supertrend and the trailing stop calculator, and size the trade with the position size calculator so a hit stop costs what you planned.

Not advice. Arithmetic on the bars you type; an indicator describes the past bars, not the next one.

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