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Inside bar on Uniswap

On Uniswap the inside bar showed up 7,160 times. Within 12 candles price broke up 48% of the time, broke down 50% and stayed inside 2%.

Counted on Uniswap (UNI/USDT): daily candles from January 2021, 4-hour candles from January 2021 and hourly candles from January 2021.

By timeframe

TimeframeFoundBroke upBroke downStayed inside
Daily20452%47%1%
4-hour1,52848%50%2%
Hourly5,42848%50%2%

Uniswap against the rest

ChartsFoundBroke upBroke downStayed inside
Uniswap7,16048%50%2%
All Crypto charts192,57449%49%2%
Every market274,73650%48%2%

Year by year

YearFoundBroke upBroke down
20211,10148%51%
20221,12448%50%
20231,33551%47%
20241,24047%52%
20251,26446%52%
20261,09649%48%

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 Uniswap

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

The inside bar elsewhere

Ethereum · Bitcoin · Solana · Litecoin · NEAR Protocol · Chainlink · BNB · Cardano · Polkadot · Aave · Sensex · Nifty 50 · Dow Jones · S&P 500 · Nikkei 225 · Sony · GBP/USD · EUR/JPY

Questions

How often does the inside bar work on Uniswap?

In 7,160 cases on Uniswap, price broke up 48% of the time, broke down 50% and stayed inside 2% within 12 candles.

What is the inside bar?

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