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Hammer Bullish Candle Patterns

Hammer Bullish Candle Patterns

Reversal candlestick patterns occur after an extended prior trend. Hence, for a candle pattern to qualify as a reversal candle setup there must be a prior trend.

The reversal candlestick patterns are:

  1. Hammer Candles Setup and Hanging Man Candle Pattern
  2. Inverted Hammer Candles Setup & Shooting Star Candle Pattern
  3. Piercing Line Gold Candlestick Pattern & Dark Cloud Cover Candlestick Pattern
  4. Morning Star Candles and Evening Star Candles
  5. Engulfing Candlesticks Patterns

Hammer Candlesticks Pattern and Hanging Man Candle Pattern

Hammer Candlesticks Pattern & Hanging Man Candle Setup candles look alike and similar but hammer is a bullish reversal candlestick pattern & hanging man is a bearish reversal candlestick pattern.

How to Trading Hammer Candle Pattern Bearish or Bullish

Hammer Candlesticks Pattern & Hanging Man Candle Pattern

Hammer Candles Setups

Hammer is a potentially bullish pattern which forms during a downward trend. It's named and called so because the market is hammering a bottom.

A hammer has:

  • A small body
  • The body is at the top
  • The lower shadow is 2 or 3 times length of real body.
  • Has no upper shadow or very small upper shadow if present.
  • The colour of the body is not important

How to Trade Hammer Candlestick in Uptrend - How to Interpret/Analyze Hammer Candle Setup Technical Analysis

Hammer Candles

Technical Analysis of Hammer Candles Setups

The buy signal gets confirmed when a candlestick closes above the opening xauusd price of the candle to the left side of this hammer candle pattern.

Stop orders should be placed a few pips just below low of the hammer candlestick.

Inverted Hammer Bullish Candle Patterns

Inverted Hammer Candlesticks Setup and Shooting Star Candlestick Pattern candlesticks look similar. These candles have a long upper shadow and a short body at the bottom. Their colour does not matter. What matters is the point where these candle-sticks appear whether at the top of a market trend (star) or the bottom of a market trend (hammer).

The difference is that inverted hammer candle is a bullish reversal candle while shooting star candlestick is a bearish reversal candlestick pattern.

Upward Trend Reversal - Shooting Star Candles

Downward Trend Reversal - Inverted Hammer Candlesticks

Types of Hammer Candle Setups - Hammer Bullish Candle Patterns

Inverted Hammer Candlesticks Setup & Shooting Star Candlestick Pattern Setups Patterns

Inverted Hammer Candlestick

This is a bullish reversal candle setup. It occurs at the bottoms of a Gold trend.

Inverted hammer occurs at the bottom of a down trend and reflects possibility of reversal of the downward trend.

Hammer Bullish Candle Setups - Reversal Candle Patterns

Inverted Hammer Candle

Technical Analysis of the Inverted Hammer Candlestick

A buy is confirmed when a candlestick closes above neck line, this is the opening of the candle onto the left side of this pattern. The neck-line point in this case creates the resistance zone.

Stop orders for the buy xauusd trades should be set a couple of pips below the lowest price on the recent low.

An inverted hammer candle is named & called so because it shows that the market is hammering a market bottom.

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