Common signal bars

Common Signal Bars

• Pin bars

Small Bars:

• Inside bar

• ii or iii pattern

• Small bar near the high or low of a big bar (trend bar or outside bar) or trading range (especially if there is a body in the direction of your trade indicating that your side has taken control)

Other Types of Signal Bars

• Outside bar

• Double Bottom Twin: consecutive bars in a strong bear with identical lows and preferably small or nonexistent bottom tails (a type of bear flag)

• Double Top Twin: consecutive bars in a strong bull with identical highs and preferably small or nonexistent top tails (a type of bull flag)

• Opposite Twins: Up Down Twin Top and Down Up Twin Bottom (consecutive trend bars in opposite directions with small tails and nearly identical highs and lows)

• Reversal bar failure (for instance, buy above a bear reversal bar in a strong bull)

• Shaved bar (no tail at one or both of its extremes) in a strong trend

• Exhaustion Bar (huge trend bar)