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Southern Doji candlestick

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What it shows

The same crossed line — open and close together — appearing during a decline. Nison coined the name to mark position, not direction: a southern doji is a doji that happens to sit in falling prices, and he is explicit that it is the weaker half of the doji story.

Measured, not claimed

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