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Tweezer Top and Tweezer Bottom

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A tweezer is a pattern about a price, not about a shape. Two consecutive candles reach an almost identical high or low and both get rejected from it. The repetition is the evidence: resting orders are sitting at that price and the market cannot get through them.

Tweezer Top

Tweezer Top

Tweezer Top candlestick patternTweezer top pattern: a green bullish candle and a following red bearish candle whose upper wicks reach the same high level, showing price rejected twice from the identical price.
Two candles reject from an almost identical high — the second fails exactly where the first failed.

Tweezer Top in context — interactive mini chart

Tweezer Top on the 1H timeframeTWEEZER TOPENTRYSTOPCONFIRM
  • Pattern: Tweezer Top forms after the move into it
  • Entry: Sell only once a candle closes below the pattern low
  • Stop: Invalidation sits above the pattern high

Simulated price action for illustration — switch timeframes to see how the same pattern reads at different scales.

  • Definition: two adjacent candles with matching (or near-matching) highs, usually a bullish candle followed by a bearish one.
  • Psychology: buyers tested a level twice within two periods and were refused both times. The second failure confirms the first was not random.
  • Where it forms: at resistance, at a round number, at the previous day's high, and at the top of ranges.
  • What usually happens next: rotation back down through the range. Sellers now have a very tight invalidation just above the matched highs.

Tweezer Bottom

Tweezer Bottom

Tweezer Bottom candlestick patternTweezer bottom pattern: a red bearish candle and a following green bullish candle whose lower wicks reach the same low level, showing price was supported twice at the identical price.
Two candles reject from an almost identical low — sellers tried twice and were absorbed at the same price.

Tweezer Bottom in context — interactive mini chart

Tweezer Bottom on the 1H timeframeTWEEZER BOTTOMENTRYSTOPCONFIRM
  • Pattern: Tweezer Bottom forms after the move into it
  • Entry: Buy only once a candle closes above the pattern high
  • Stop: Invalidation sits under the pattern low

Simulated price action for illustration — switch timeframes to see how the same pattern reads at different scales.

  • Definition: two adjacent candles with matching lows, usually a bearish candle followed by a bullish one.
  • Psychology: sellers pushed into the same price twice and were absorbed both times. Supply at that level is being bought.
  • Where it forms: at support, at the previous day's low, at the base of a trend pullback.
  • What usually happens next: a push back up toward the high of the two candles, and a trend resumption if that breaks.
  • Confirmed: the candle after the pair closes away from the shared level — below the pattern low for a top, above the pattern high for a bottom.
  • Rejected: a candle closes beyond the matched extreme. Because the highs or lows line up, this stop is unusually tight and unusually clear.
  • Stronger when the wicks are long and the bodies are small — that means both attempts were fully rejected, not just paused.
  • Weaker in the middle of a range where matching highs happen by accident. Location is what separates a tweezer from a coincidence.

Best risk-to-reward in the library

Tweezers give you the tightest stop of any candle pattern because the invalidation sits a few pips beyond two identical extremes. That is what makes them worth waiting for, even though they appear less often.

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