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Inside bar on Coinbase

On Coinbase the inside bar showed up 560 times. Within 12 candles price broke up 49% of the time, broke down 50% and stayed inside 0%.

Counted on Coinbase: daily candles from April 2021 and hourly candles from October 2024.

By timeframe

TimeframeFoundBroke upBroke downStayed inside
Daily9852%48%0%
Hourly46249%51%0%

Coinbase against the rest

ChartsFoundBroke upBroke downStayed inside
Coinbase56049%50%0%
All US stock market charts18,99554%46%0%
Every market274,73650%48%2%

Year by year

YearFoundBroke upBroke down
20221020%80%
20232458%42%
20244549%51%
202528353%46%
202619844%55%

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 inside bar is

A candle fully inside the one before. The market is coiling.

Think of a small box that fits inside a bigger box. An inside bar is a candle whose whole range, wicks and all, fits inside the candle before it. Price is resting in a smaller space, like a spring being squeezed.

The full inside bar lesson, video and quiz ›

Other patterns on Coinbase

Stochastic bullish cross · Stochastic bearish cross · Gap up · Spinning top · Gap down · Doji · MACD bullish cross · Volume profile rejection · EMA 9/21 bullish cross · EMA 9/21 bearish cross · all of them

The inside bar 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 inside bar work on Coinbase?

In 560 cases on Coinbase, price broke up 49% of the time, broke down 50% and stayed inside 0% within 12 candles.

What is the inside bar?

A candle fully inside the one before. The market is coiling.