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Inside bar on ExxonMobil

On ExxonMobil the inside bar showed up 618 times. Within 12 candles price broke up 52% of the time, broke down 48% and stayed inside 0%.

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

By timeframe

TimeframeFoundBroke upBroke downStayed inside
Daily21850%49%0%
Hourly40052%47%0%

ExxonMobil against the rest

ChartsFoundBroke upBroke downStayed inside
ExxonMobil61852%48%0%
All US stock market charts18,99554%46%0%
Every market274,73650%48%2%

Year by year

YearFoundBroke upBroke down
20161942%58%
20172669%31%
20181942%58%
20191947%53%
20202330%70%
20211457%43%
20221963%37%
20232642%54%
20243135%65%
202523453%47%
202618855%44%

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.

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Other patterns on ExxonMobil

Stochastic bearish cross · Stochastic bullish cross · Spinning top · Gap up · Doji · MACD bearish cross · Gap down · MACD bullish cross · Volume profile bounce · EMA 9/21 bullish 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 ExxonMobil?

In 618 cases on ExxonMobil, price broke up 52% of the time, broke down 48% and stayed inside 0% within 12 candles.

What is the inside bar?

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