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Dark cloud cover on USD/CHF

On USD/CHF the dark cloud cover showed up 46 times. The target came first 28% of the time, the stop 63%, and 9% went nowhere within 12 candles.

Counted on USD/CHF: daily candles from January 2015 and hourly candles from October 2024.

By timeframe

TimeframeFoundTarget firstStop firstWent nowhere
Daily475%25%0%
Hourly4224%67%10%

USD/CHF against the rest

ChartsFoundTarget firstStop firstWent nowhere
USD/CHF4628%63%9%
All Forex charts43933%54%12%
Every market6,38536%57%8%

Year by year

YearFoundTarget firstStop first
202440%75%
20251724%76%
20262129%57%

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 dark cloud cover is

After a big green candle, red closes below its middle.

Imagine a sunny sky, and then a dark cloud slides over more than half of it. A dark cloud cover is like that: after a big green candle, the next red candle pushes down past the middle of the green one. Sellers took back more than half of the climb.

The full dark cloud cover lesson, video and quiz ›

Other patterns on USD/CHF

Inside bar · Stochastic bearish cross · Stochastic bullish cross · Spinning top · Doji · MACD bearish cross · MACD bullish cross · EMA 9/21 bearish cross · EMA 9/21 bullish cross · RSI overbought drop · all of them

The dark cloud cover elsewhere

GBP/USD · EUR/JPY · EUR/USD · GBP/JPY · USD/JPY · NZD/USD · EUR/GBP · AUD/USD · USD/CAD · EUR/INR · Ethereum · Bitcoin

Questions

How often does the dark cloud cover work on USD/CHF?

In 46 cases on USD/CHF, the target (1.5 × ATR) came before the stop (1 × ATR) 28% of the time and the stop came first 63%; 9% went nowhere within 12 candles.

What is the dark cloud cover?

After a big green candle, red closes below its middle.