Tweezer Bottom (and Top)
Also called: tweezer top, tweezers
Two candles that bottom at nearly the same low on consecutive sessions — a short-term bullish reversal as support holds twice.
A tweezer bottom forms when two adjacent candles share almost the same low — typically a down candle followed by an up candle that tests and holds the same level. The matched lows show sellers failed to push lower a second time.
Its mirror, the tweezer top, has two matching highs and warns of a short-term top. Tweezers are stronger at a level that already mattered and when the second candle reverses convincingly.
How it has actually played out
- Tweezer Bottom: across 3,030 signals on US stocks in the last 150 days, price was higher a week later 44.4% of the time (-0.5 pts vs. an ordinary session) and higher a month later 44.3% (+3.4 pts).
- Tweezer Top: across 2,389 signals on US stocks in the last 150 days, price was lower a week later 54.8% of the time (+0.5 pts vs. an ordinary session) and lower a month later 59.8% (+1.1 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 treats tweezers as short-term reversal confirmations at support or resistance, layered onto the chart-pattern read.
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