Short side of 3 Bar Pattern Play Scan

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Here is a link to the previous post you mention:

https://www.hahn-tech.com/ans/custom-scan-for-the-3-bar-pattern-play/

And it turns out that even I required that original code to determine where you went wrong. The following line of code is from the example you gave:

def shortCandleTwo = range < range[1] and low <= 1.005 * low[1] and high <= (low[1] - (0.618 * low[1]));

(notice I have made some changes to make the code much easier to read)

Now here is the same line of code from the original:

def shortCandleTwo = close < open and range < range[1] and high <= high[1];

I see that you added some math to this line however you left out one very important detail:

close < open

You also forgot to flip the sign for the portion that checks the low of that candle to it's previous low. In the original we are checking if the high is less than or equal to the bar previous to it. In your code you need to check if the low is GREATER than or equal to the previous low. So here it is, corrected for those two errors:

def shortCandleTwo = close < open and range < range[1] and low >= 1.005 * low[1] and high <= (low[1] - (0.618 * low[1]));

However there is still an error in the math used to check if "...with no more than a .618 retracement into the high of the first bar...". I will leave that to you to work out, now that the most important details have been corrected. You might try leaving that last condition out altogether until you are sure the first parts are working correctly. But I would expect the correct mathematical formula would include the range times 0.618 added to the low. What you have done is to subtract that value from the low, which means instead of a retracement into the range of the previous bar you are forcing it to the below the previous candles range. You see that?

Last item I will leave for you. Always be sure to place spaces in your code between variables and operators (operators are +, -, /, *). The way you had it written makes it extremely difficult to read when viewing the code in a plan text file.