A weapon that marks, in an uptrend, a small falling candle that fits entirely inside the body of the long rising candle before it.
- Weapon tier
- Starter tier
- Slots used
- Candle markings 1/3
Concept
Yesterday the price rose strongly, but today it fell a little and stayed inside the range of yesterday’s body. The rise has paused for a beat.
Unlike the engulfing pattern, the second candle sits inside the first. It is usually read as a hesitation rather than a turn, so the next candle matters.
- Bearish Harami
Charts by TradingView Lightweight Charts™
80 candles with volume. Right after a big rising candle on a burst of volume, candle 60 (yellow vertical line) is a small falling candle inside it. The price then falls steadily. Keyboard: ←/→ to move, +/− to zoom, 0 to see the whole chart.
The yellow vertical line is the second candle of the bearish harami. It came the day after a one-day surge, and the price then gave back the gain and kept falling. This scene was picked because it worked out — the rise often continues after a harami too. Drag the chart sideways with a finger or the mouse to move it, and pinch with two fingers to zoom in. With a keyboard, click the chart, then use ←/→ to move and +/− to zoom.
How it is calculated
Trend: if the close is above the average close of the last 10 candles, it is an uptrend.
Yesterday must be a rising candle whose body is longer than the average body of the last 10 candles × 1.2.
Today must be a falling candle whose open is below yesterday’s close and whose close is above yesterday’s open (inside yesterday’s body), with a body smaller than yesterday’s body × 0.6. If all of this holds, today’s candle is marked.
Parameters
| What it sets | Name in the game | Default | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Candles used for the average body | lookback | 10 | 5 – 30 |
| Candles in the closing-price average used to judge the trend | trendPeriod | 10 | 3 – 60 |
| How many times the average body the body must exceed | bodyMultiple | 1.2 | 0.5 – 3 |
| How small the second body must be, as a share of the first body | haramiBodyMax | 0.6 | 0.1 – 0.95 |
Trading ideas
A harami is a pause. If the next candle closes below yesterday’s open, the turn is often considered to be gaining strength.
A harami right after a rising candle on a burst of volume is sometimes read as “buyers could not follow through” (lesson 4).
Common traps
- A harami alone does not turn the trend. It is common for the rise to resume after the pause.
- The check judges the trend only from the closing-price average. Whether this is the top of a long trend needs a separate look.
- The chart on this page is a picked scene. Read it together with the trend (lesson 2).
In the game
- “Bearish Harami” is an “Starter tier” weapon and uses 1 “Candle markings” slot (limit 3). It uses no chart lines and no indicator panel.
- In the game, every candle that meets the conditions gets a faint gray vertical line in the price area, and only the most recent line is labeled “Bearish Harami”. The chart on this page looks the same; the yellow vertical line is an extra mark for the candle this page talks about.
- If you equip several “Candle markings” weapons, their lines are told apart as solid, dashed and dotted.
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- 1. Reading a single candle
- 2. Trends and sideways moves
- 4. Volume and volume MA