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Inside bar on Oracle

On Oracle the inside bar showed up 707 times. Within 12 candles price broke up 54% of the time, broke down 46% and stayed inside 0%.

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

By timeframe

TimeframeFoundBroke upBroke downStayed inside
Daily26050%49%0%
Hourly44755%44%0%

Oracle against the rest

ChartsFoundBroke upBroke downStayed inside
Oracle70754%46%0%
All US stock market charts18,99554%46%0%
Every market274,73650%48%2%

Year by year

YearFoundBroke upBroke down
20162540%56%
20172438%62%
20181765%35%
20192264%36%
20202650%50%
20213262%38%
20222162%38%
20232941%59%
20243754%46%
202524455%44%
202623053%47%

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 Oracle

Stochastic bearish cross · Stochastic bullish cross · Spinning top · Gap up · Gap down · Doji · MACD bearish cross · 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 · Nvidia · Microsoft · Meta · Intel · Sensex · Nifty 50 · Nikkei 225 · Sony · GBP/USD · EUR/JPY · Gold · Silver

Questions

How often does the inside bar work on Oracle?

In 707 cases on Oracle, price broke up 54% of the time, broke down 46% and stayed inside 0% within 12 candles.

What is the inside bar?

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