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Inside bar on Silver

On Silver the inside bar showed up 481 times. Within 12 candles price broke up 53% of the time, broke down 44% and stayed inside 3%.

Counted on Silver futures: daily candles from January 2015 and hourly candles from September 2024.

By timeframe

TimeframeFoundBroke upBroke downStayed inside
Daily22259%40%1%
Hourly25948%47%5%

Silver against the rest

ChartsFoundBroke upBroke downStayed inside
Silver48153%44%3%
All Commodities charts1,81852%46%2%
Every market274,73650%48%2%

Year by year

YearFoundBroke upBroke down
20163650%47%
20171861%33%
20181547%53%
20192264%36%
20202277%23%
20212752%48%
20222857%43%
20231567%33%
202412146%51%
202516053%41%
20261747%53%

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 Silver

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

The inside bar elsewhere

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

Questions

How often does the inside bar work on Silver?

In 481 cases on Silver, price broke up 53% of the time, broke down 44% and stayed inside 3% within 12 candles.

What is the inside bar?

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