Harami (Inside Bar)
Also called: inside bar
A two-candle pattern where a small candle's body sits entirely inside the prior large candle's body — a sign the trend is losing steam.
Harami means 'pregnant' in Japanese: a large candle is followed by a small one whose body is contained within it. The shrinking range after a big move signals momentum is fading and the trend may pause or reverse.
A bullish harami appears after a downtrend (a small up candle inside a big red one); a bearish harami after an uptrend. It's the near-opposite of an engulfing pattern — here the second candle is the small one.
On StockSetups
StockSetups reads the harami as an indecision/exhaustion confirmation in its candlestick set, weighed alongside the chart pattern rather than traded alone.
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