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Spinning top on Alphabet (Google)

On Alphabet (Google) the spinning top showed up 199 times. Within 12 candles price broke up 52% of the time, broke down 47% and stayed inside 1%.

Counted on Alphabet (Google): daily candles from January 2015 and hourly candles from October 2024.

By timeframe

TimeframeFoundBroke upBroke downStayed inside
Daily9547%52%1%
Hourly10456%43%1%

Alphabet (Google) against the rest

ChartsFoundBroke upBroke downStayed inside
Alphabet (Google)19952%47%1%
All US stock market charts5,80352%47%1%
Every market88,07749%49%3%

Year by year

YearFoundBroke upBroke down
20161233%67%
2017956%44%
2018633%67%
2019933%67%
20201457%36%
2021956%44%
2022560%40%
2023633%67%
20241844%56%
20254461%39%
20266754%45%

The last 8 times

Counted by the Trading Class research engine on real past candles: entry at the signal candle's close, target 1.5 × ATR(14), stop 1 × ATR(14), 12 candles to decide, a candle that touches both counts as the stop. How we count. Past data, not a forecast and not advice.

What the spinning top is

Small body, wicks on both sides. Nobody is in charge.

A spinning top toy whirls fast but stays in one spot. This candle is the same: price ran up and down a lot, but it ended close to where it began. Buyers and sellers were both busy, and neither took charge.

The full spinning top lesson, video and quiz ›

Other patterns on Alphabet (Google)

Inside bar · Stochastic bearish cross · Stochastic bullish cross · Gap up · MACD bearish cross · Doji · Gap down · RSI overbought drop · Volume profile bounce · EMA 9/21 bullish cross · all of them

The spinning top elsewhere

Dow Jones · S&P 500 · Nasdaq 100 · Alibaba · Tesla · Broadcom · Oracle · Nvidia · Microsoft · Meta · Sensex · Nifty 50 · Nikkei 225 · Sony · GBP/USD · EUR/JPY · Gold · Silver

Questions

How often does the spinning top work on Alphabet (Google)?

In 199 cases on Alphabet (Google), price broke up 52% of the time, broke down 47% and stayed inside 1% within 12 candles.

What is the spinning top?

Small body, wicks on both sides. Nobody is in charge.