Piercing Line
A two-candle bullish reversal where a green candle gaps down then closes back above the midpoint of the prior red candle.
A piercing line forms after a decline: a strong red candle is followed by a green candle that opens with a gap down below the prior low, then rallies to close above the halfway point of the red candle's body. Buyers reclaimed most of the prior day's loss.
The deeper the green candle closes into the red body, the stronger the signal — if it closes all the way above the red open, it becomes a bullish engulfing. It's the bullish counterpart of dark cloud cover.
How it has actually played out
- Piercing Line: across 1,364 signals on US stocks in the last 150 days, price was higher a week later 47.6% of the time (+2.8 pts vs. an ordinary session) and higher a month later 49.2% (+8.2 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.
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