Hammer Bullish Candlestick Patterns
Hammer Bullish Candlestick Patterns
Reversal candlestick patterns occur after an extended prior trend. Hence, for a candle pattern to qualify as a reversal candlestick setup there must be a prior trend.
The reversal candlestick patterns are:
- Hammer Candles Setup & Hanging Man Candle Pattern
- Inverted Hammer Candles Setup & Shooting Star Candlestick Pattern
- Piercing Line Gold Candle Pattern & Dark Cloud Cover Candle Pattern
- Morning Star Candles and Evening Star Candles
- Engulfing Candles Patterns
Hammer Candlesticks Pattern and Hanging Man Candle Pattern
Hammer Candlesticks Pattern and Hanging Man Candlestick Setup candles look alike but hammer is bullish reversal candlestick pattern and hanging man is a bearish reversal candle pattern.
Hammer Candlesticks Pattern & Hanging Man Candlestick Pattern
Hammer Candles Setups
Hammer is a potentially bullish pattern which forms during a downwards trend. It is named so because the market is hammering out 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 isn't important
Hammer Candlesticks
Technical Analysis of Hammer Candles Setups
The buy signal is 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 set a few pips just below low of the hammer candlestick.
Inverted Hammer Bullish Candlestick Patterns
Inverted Hammer Candlesticks Setup & Shooting Star Candlestick Pattern candle-sticks look similar. These candlesticks have a long upper shadow & a short body at the bottom. Their color doesn't matter. What matters is the point where these candle-sticks appear whether at the top of a trend (star) or the bottom of a trend (hammer).
The difference is that inverted hammer candlestick is a bullish reversal candlestick while shooting star candlestick is a bearish reversal candle pattern.
Upwards Trend Reversal - Shooting Star Candles
Downwards Trend Reversal - Inverted Hammer Candles
Inverted Hammer Candlesticks Setup & Shooting Star Candlestick Pattern Chart Setups
Inverted Hammer Candlestick
This is a bullish reversal candlestick setup. It occurs at the bottoms of a Gold trend.
Inverted hammer occurs at the bottom of a down trend & indicates possibility of reversal of the downward trend.
Inverted Hammer Candle
Technical Analysis of Inverted Hammer Candlestick
A buy is confirmed when a candlestick closes above neck line, this is the opening of the candlestick on the left side of this pattern. The neck-line point in this case forms the resistance zone.
Stop orders for the buy xauusd trade transactions should be set a couple of pips below the lowest price on the recent low.
An inverted hammer candle is named so because it shows that the market is hammering a bottom.
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