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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 reach an almost identical high or low and both get 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 in context — interactive mini chart
- 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 followed by a 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 , 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 in context — interactive mini chart
- 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 , at the previous day's low, at the base of a pullback.
- What usually happens next: a push back up toward the high of the two candles, and a trend resumption if that breaks.
vs
- : 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 are long and the 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 beyond two identical extremes. That is what makes them worth waiting for, even though they appear less often.
Key takeaways
- Tweezers are two or more candles with almost identical highs or lows.
- Repeated rejection at the same price shows a level being defended.
- Equal highs and lows also collect stop orders, making them liquidity targets.
- Best used at established support or resistance with a confirming close.
Knowledge check
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1. What is a tweezer bottom?
2. Why do tweezer levels often get retested?
3. What improves a tweezer top signal?
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