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Dark cloud cover on Apple
On Apple the dark cloud cover showed up 29 times. The target came first 31% of the time, the stop 69%, and 0% went nowhere within 12 candles.
Counted on Apple: daily candles from January 2015 and hourly candles from September 2024.
By timeframe
| Timeframe | Found | Target first | Stop first | Went nowhere |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daily | 10 | 40% | 60% | 0% |
| Hourly | 19 | 26% | 74% | 0% |
Apple against the rest
| Charts | Found | Target first | Stop first | Went nowhere |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apple | 29 | 31% | 69% | 0% |
| All US stock market charts | 402 | 37% | 60% | 4% |
| Every market | 6,385 | 36% | 57% | 8% |
Year by year
| Year | Found | Target first | Stop first |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 3 | 67% | 33% |
| 2025 | 9 | 33% | 67% |
| 2026 | 11 | 27% | 73% |
The last 8 times
- 2 Sep 2026, 11:30 ET · hourly · stop first after 5 candles
- 1 Sep 2026, 12:30 ET · hourly · stop first after 4 candles
- 26 Aug 2026, 15:30 ET · hourly · target first after 1 candle
- 19 Aug 2026, 11:30 ET · hourly · stop first after 5 candles
- 24 Jul 2026, 12:30 ET · hourly · stop first after 4 candles
- 11 May 2026, 11:30 ET · hourly · stop first after 5 candles
- 20 Apr 2026, 14:30 ET · hourly · target first after 2 candles
- 9 Apr 2026, 09:30 ET · hourly · stop first after 3 candles
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 dark cloud cover is
After a big green candle, red closes below its middle.
Imagine a sunny sky, and then a dark cloud slides over more than half of it. A dark cloud cover is like that: after a big green candle, the next red candle pushes down past the middle of the green one. Sellers took back more than half of the climb.
The full dark cloud cover lesson, video and quiz ›
Other patterns on Apple
Inside bar · Stochastic bearish cross · Stochastic bullish cross · Spinning top · RSI overbought drop · MACD bearish cross · Gap down · Gap up · Doji · Volume profile bounce · all of them
The dark cloud cover elsewhere
GBP/USD · EUR/JPY · Ethereum · Bitcoin
Questions
How often does the dark cloud cover work on Apple?
In 29 cases on Apple, the target (1.5 × ATR) came before the stop (1 × ATR) 31% of the time and the stop came first 69%; 0% went nowhere within 12 candles.
What is the dark cloud cover?
After a big green candle, red closes below its middle.