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Tweezer top on Boeing

On Boeing the tweezer top showed up 29 times. The target came first 45% of the time, the stop 45%, and 10% went nowhere within 12 candles.

Counted on Boeing: daily candles from January 2015 and hourly candles from October 2024.

By timeframe

TimeframeFoundTarget firstStop firstWent nowhere
Daily1136%45%18%
Hourly1850%44%6%

Boeing against the rest

ChartsFoundTarget firstStop firstWent nowhere
Boeing2945%45%10%
All US stock market charts85937%59%4%
Every market10,99134%58%8%

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 tweezer top is

Two candles hit the same high. That ceiling held twice.

Imagine jumping twice and bumping your head on the same spot of the ceiling both times. A tweezer top is two candles whose highest points land at almost exactly the same price. Buyers hit a ceiling twice, and it held both times.

The full tweezer top lesson, video and quiz ›

Other patterns on Boeing

Inside bar · Stochastic bearish cross · Stochastic bullish cross · Spinning top · Volume profile rejection · Gap up · Doji · MACD bearish cross · Gap down · MACD bullish cross · all of them

The tweezer top elsewhere

Dow Jones · Alibaba · Tesla · Broadcom · Oracle · Nvidia · Microsoft · Intel · Amazon · Bank of America · Sony · GBP/USD · EUR/JPY · Gold · Silver · Ethereum · Bitcoin

Questions

How often does the tweezer top work on Boeing?

In 29 cases on Boeing, the target (1.5 × ATR) came before the stop (1 × ATR) 45% of the time and the stop came first 45%; 10% went nowhere within 12 candles.

What is the tweezer top?

Two candles hit the same high. That ceiling held twice.