Gravestone Doji
A doji with a long upper wick and little lower wick: buyers pushed price up, sellers drove it back to the open — a bearish clue after a rally.
A gravestone doji opens, trades well higher, then falls back to close at or near the open, which sits near the session low. The long upper shadow is the rejected buying.
After an advance it leans bearish, like a shooting star with no body. A lower close the next session confirms it; on its own it's a warning, not a reversal.
How it has actually played out
- Gravestone Doji: across 1,526 signals on US stocks in the last 150 days, price was lower a week later 52.4% of the time (-2.1 pts vs. an ordinary session) and lower a month later 57.3% (+0.1 pts).
Measured from the signal-day close, no stops or costs, versus every session of the same stocks over the same window. A base rate, not a prediction.
On StockSetups
StockSetups flags a gravestone doji when the body is at most 10% of the range and the lower wick at most 15% (open and close at the bottom of the bar), only after an uptrend. A bar with a visible body (10–33% of the range) is a shooting star instead; the same doji after a decline is labelled an inverted hammer. On a long-only board it's a caution flag.
Scan for candlestick patterns nightly →Frequently asked
Is a gravestone doji bearish?
After a rally it leans bearish, because sellers erased the whole intraday advance. A lower close the next session confirms it.
What is the difference between a gravestone doji and a shooting star?
Both have a long upper wick. A shooting star has a small visible body; a gravestone doji's open and close are nearly equal.
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