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Inside bar on Mastercard

On Mastercard the inside bar showed up 655 times. Within 12 candles price broke up 55% of the time, broke down 44% and stayed inside 1%.

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

By timeframe

TimeframeFoundBroke upBroke downStayed inside
Daily25756%42%1%
Hourly39855%45%0%

Mastercard against the rest

ChartsFoundBroke upBroke downStayed inside
Mastercard65555%44%1%
All US stock market charts18,99554%46%0%
Every market274,73650%48%2%

Year by year

YearFoundBroke upBroke down
20162948%48%
20172969%31%
20181953%47%
20192556%44%
20202458%42%
20212446%54%
20222050%50%
20231759%41%
20243762%38%
202523655%44%
202619554%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 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 Mastercard

Stochastic bearish cross · Stochastic bullish cross · Spinning top · MACD bearish cross · Doji · Gap down · Gap up · MACD bullish cross · 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 Mastercard?

In 655 cases on Mastercard, price broke up 55% of the time, broke down 44% and stayed inside 1% within 12 candles.

What is the inside bar?

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