A weapon that finds and marks candles whose open and close are almost the same, so the body is very thin. It is a candle where buyers and sellers ended up evenly matched.
- Weapon tier
- Starter tier
- Slots used
- Candle markings 1/3
Concept
The price moved up and down during the candle, yet it finished close to where it started. If the body is very thin compared with the distance between the high and the low, it counts as a doji.
A doji does not point in any direction. It appears where a rise pauses, where a fall hesitates, and in quiet sideways stretches where nothing happens. Where it appears decides what it means.
- Doji
Charts by TradingView Lightweight Charts™
80 candles with volume. Candle 60 (yellow vertical line), right after a big rising candle, is a doji. The price slips for a few days afterwards and then rises again. Keyboard: ←/→ to move, +/− to zoom, 0 to see the whole chart.
The yellow vertical line is the doji. The day after a big rising candle the tug-of-war became even, then the price slipped for a while and rose again. This scene was picked, and what follows a doji is different every time. 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
Find body = |close − open| and the candle’s range = high − low.
If the body is at most range × 0.05, it is a doji. A candle with zero range (all four prices equal) is not counted.
No other candles are checked. The decision uses this one candle only.
Parameters
| What it sets | Name in the game | Default | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| How thin the body must be, as a share of the candle’s range | dojiMax | 0.05 | 0.01 – 0.2 |
Trading ideas
A doji at the end of a long rise is often read as “buying is running out of steam”, and one at the end of a long fall as “selling is running out of steam”. Decide by which way the next candle closes.
A doji inside a sideways stretch means very little. Read it together with the trend (lesson 2).
Common traps
- Dojis are very common. In a quiet stock several can appear within 80 candles. Reacting to each one only adds trades.
- A doji gives no direction. Reading it as “a doji appeared, so the price will rise (or fall)” does not hold.
- The chart on this page is a picked scene. More often, nothing in particular happens after the same shape.
In the game
- “Doji” 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 “Doji”. 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