Not sure, but seems a bug to me

[lousadacbc]

TaLibStandard/src/TechnicalAnalysis.Candles/Candle3WhiteSoldiers/Candle3WhiteSoldiers.cs

Line 75 in 6d23694

return new CandleIndicatorResult(Success, outBegIdx, outNBElement, outInteger);

I'm trying identify patterns right after market opens, in 5 minutes candles. For instance, when I run GetLookback() for Candle3WhiteSoldiers, I got 12, so What I understand is that I have to have 12 5 minute candles to be able to identify this pattern. In other words, I can only identify it after 60 minutes, and I wanted to identify it in the first 20 to 30 minutes. Is it possible to change it to a shorter interval?

The bug I think exists is:

If we don't have enough candles to identify the pattern, it shouldn't return a success message here, but an error message, am I right?

    // Identify the minimum number of price bar needed to calculate at least one output.
    int lookbackTotal = GetLookback();

    // Move up the start index if there is not enough initial data.
    if (startIdx < lookbackTotal)
    {
        startIdx = lookbackTotal;
    }

    // Make sure there is still something to evaluate.
    if (startIdx > endIdx)
    {
        return new CandleIndicatorResult(**Success**, outBegIdx, outNBElement, outInteger);
    }

If I'm wrong, I apologize, I'm a little rusty with programming.
Thanks, and nice job

[phmatray]

Hello @lousadacbc
Here is the original C file wrote by Angelo Ciceri
https://github.com/TA-Lib/ta-lib/blob/main/src/ta_func/ta_CDL3WHITESOLDIERS.c

I will investigate.

Thanks