Once you've established a good resistance level, you can look
for bearish candlesticks patterns, like the shooting star, forming at or near the level.
Not exact matches
However, it's possible
for the shooting star
candlestick to meet this criterion on its own if a
bearish real body shooting star occurs after a smaller bullish
candlestick (above — left) or another
bearish candlestick (above — right).
So when the prices move above the upper Bollinger Band, are coupled with a
bearish candlestick read (gravestone doji,
for example), and an extreme overbought W % R read is present, we expect a reversal at the top.
However, if you get a weak signal, like a small
bearish engulfing pattern or a bullish engulfing
candlestick that doesn't close within the upper 1 / 3rd of its range, you can always wait
for another strong bullish
candlestick or just skip the trade altogether.
The first standard entry technique
for the
bearish engulfing
candlestick pattern is to simply place a sell order at the open of the next
candlestick (see the image below — left).
I do this with the
bearish engulfing
candlestick pattern by waiting
for the price to pull back to 50 % of the total range of the engulfing
candlestick (see the image above).
Once you've established a good resistance level, keep an eye out
for bearish price action signals, like the
bearish engulfing
candlestick pattern, forming at or near the level.
When trading the
bearish engulfing
candlestick pattern, the idea is to look to the left of the chart
for any previous structure that may act as resistance.
For instance, if your
bearish engulfing pattern is larger than the last twenty
candlesticks that came before it, that pattern is more likely to be significant.
CRM is short
for Candlestick Recognition Master, and is a technical study that plots both bullish and
bearish candlestick patterns on the chart.