Heikin-Ashi calculator
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Doji, hammer, shooting star or engulfing: the pattern on the last bar, what it says, and how each one has done in your own bars.
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The bars
The patterns
The last bar shows no pattern: an ordinary up bar after a rise, its body 45% of its range.
- What it says
- None of the common one- and two-bar patterns fits it.
- In these bars
- Doji: 8 times; 3 bars later the close had moved 0.73% either way on averageShooting star: 1 time; 3 bars later the close was lower on 0 of 1, and moved +0.52% on averageInverted hammer: 1 time; 3 bars later the close was higher on 0 of 1, and moved -0.62% on averageBullish engulfing: 9 times; 3 bars later the close was higher on 5 of 9, and moved +0.22% on averageBearish engulfing: 9 times; 3 bars later the close was lower on 4 of 9, and moved +0.15% on averageA handful of cases proves nothing, but it shows how these patterns have done in this market.
- Read it with care
- One bar is a small sample of what the market did. Patterns mean more at a level that matters, a support, a resistance or a swing high, and less in the middle of nowhere.
The open, the close, the body as a share of the bar's range, and the pattern on the last bars. The last bar is marked.
| Bar | Open | Close price | Body | Pattern |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 ago | 2,385.50 | 2,391.50 | 26% | – |
| 6 ago | 2,391.50 | 2,380.50 | 33% | Bearish engulfing |
| 5 ago | 2,380.50 | 2,399.10 | 64% | Bullish engulfing |
| 4 ago | 2,399.10 | 2,412.50 | 70% | – |
| 3 ago | 2,412.50 | 2,430.80 | 46% | – |
| 2 ago | 2,430.80 | 2,427.40 | 13% | – |
| 1 ago | 2,427.40 | 2,432.40 | 37% | Bullish engulfing |
| Last | 2,432.40 | 2,443.60 | 45% | – |
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Exact rules for the shapes traders name
Candlestick names are old and loose; this page uses fixed rules so the same bars always give the same answer. A doji's body is at most a tenth of its range. A hammer's lower shadow is at least twice its body, with almost no upper shadow, after a fall; the same shape after a rise is a hanging man. A shooting star is the mirror image after a rise. An engulfing bar's body covers the whole body of an opposite bar before it.
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Not advice. Arithmetic on the bars you type; a pattern describes the past bars, not the next one.
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