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Bearish · 毛抜き天井 · kenuki tenjo

Drawn example, not a real chart

What it shows

Two neighbouring candles in a rising market that reach exactly the same high. The second went back to the first one's ceiling and could not get past it.

Measured, not claimed

27%

Five daily candles after this pattern, price had fallen in 27% of the 102 cases we measured.

32 crypto markets on Kraken, daily candles, 2013–2026. A bullish pattern promises a rise and a bearish one a fall, each larger than half that market's typical five-candle move; anything smaller counts as a promise not kept.

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