Bearish Marubozu

A weapon that finds and marks falling candles with almost no shadows and a body far longer than usual. Sellers pushed all the way through the candle.

Weapon tier

Starter tier

Slots used

Candle markings 1/3

Concept

It is a falling candle that starts near its high and ends near its low. Both shadows are short, and the body is clearly longer than the average body of recent candles.

At the end of a long rise it is often read as a first sign that the trend may turn down; inside a fall, as a sign that selling is getting heavier.

• Bearish Marubozu

Charts by TradingView Lightweight Charts™

80 candles with volume. After a sharp rise, candle 60 (yellow vertical line) is a bearish marubozu. Afterwards the price gives back a good part of the rise. Keyboard: ←/→ to move, +/− to zoom, 0 to see the whole chart.

The yellow vertical line is the bearish marubozu. It appeared at the top of a fast rise, and the price then swung its way down. This scene was picked because it worked out — the price often rises again after one, 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

Find body = |close − open|, range = high − low, upper shadow = high − max(open, close) and lower shadow = min(open, close) − low.

Take the average body of the last 10 candles.

If close < open (a falling candle), each shadow is at most range × 0.1, and the body is longer than average body × 1.5, it is a bearish marubozu.

Parameters

Trading ideas

A bearish marubozu with heavy volume after a big rise is often read as “sellers have won”. Watch whether the following candles fail to get back above the top of its body.

Inside a fall it is read as the trend continuing. After a long decline, though, it can also be the final panic before a bottom.

Common traps

• One bearish marubozu does not mean the trend has turned. The price often recovers the very next day.
• Its length is measured against the average body, so in a quiet stock even a modest candle can qualify.
• The chart on this page is a picked scene. Read it together with the trend (lesson 2) and volume (lesson 4).

In the game

• “Bearish Marubozu” 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 Marubozu”. 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
• 4. Volume and volume MA