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Inside bar on Natural gas

On Natural gas the inside bar showed up 90 times. Within 12 candles price broke up 54% of the time, broke down 44% and stayed inside 1%.

Counted on Natural gas futures: daily candles from January 2015 and hourly candles from October 2024.

By timeframe

TimeframeFoundBroke upBroke downStayed inside
Daily3148%52%0%
Hourly5958%41%2%

Natural gas against the rest

ChartsFoundBroke upBroke downStayed inside
Natural gas9054%44%1%
All Commodities charts1,81852%46%2%
Every market274,73650%48%2%

Year by year

YearFoundBroke upBroke down
2023729%71%
20243247%53%
20254560%38%

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 Natural gas

Stochastic bearish cross · Stochastic bullish cross · Doji · Spinning top · MACD bearish cross · Volume profile rejection · Volume profile bounce · RSI overbought drop · MACD bullish cross · EMA 9/21 bearish cross · all of them

The inside bar elsewhere

Gold · Silver · Crude oil · Copper · Sensex · Nifty 50 · Dow Jones · S&P 500 · Nikkei 225 · Sony · GBP/USD · EUR/JPY

Questions

How often does the inside bar work on Natural gas?

In 90 cases on Natural gas, price broke up 54% 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.