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Candlestick pattern

Shooting star

Small body in the lower part and upper shadow at least twice as large, with little lower shadow.

Example in context

The price overcomes a resistance intraday, cannot sustain it and the next day loses the minimum.

Prior contextHighlighted pattern · confirmation follows

Exact formation

Small body in the lower part and upper shadow at least twice as large, with little lower shadow.

What is happening in the market

Buyers pushed up the price, but supply rejected the advance and returned it near the open.

Where it matters

After a rise and near resistance. After a fall, the same silhouette is an inverted hammer.

How to confirm it

Subsequent close below the pattern's low.

When it is invalidated

Close above the top shadow end.

Common mistake

Sell ​​only by shape when it appears in the middle of a range.