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Tweezer bottom on Visa

On Visa the tweezer bottom showed up 23 times. The target came first 57% of the time, the stop 39%, and 4% went nowhere within 12 candles.

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

By timeframe

TimeframeFoundTarget firstStop firstWent nowhere
Daily743%57%0%
Hourly1662%31%6%

Visa against the rest

ChartsFoundTarget firstStop firstWent nowhere
Visa2357%39%4%
All US stock market charts71038%57%5%
Every market9,70935%55%11%

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 tweezer bottom is

Two candles hit the same low. That floor held twice.

Picture a pair of tweezers, with two tips meeting at the very same point. A tweezer bottom is two candles whose lowest points land at almost exactly the same price. Price tested the floor twice, and the floor held both times.

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Other patterns on Visa

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

The tweezer bottom elsewhere

Dow Jones · S&P 500 · Nasdaq 100 · Alibaba · Tesla · Broadcom · Oracle · Microsoft · Meta · Intel · Sensex · Nifty 50 · Nikkei 225 · Sony · GBP/USD · EUR/JPY · Ethereum · Bitcoin

Questions

How often does the tweezer bottom work on Visa?

In 23 cases on Visa, the target (1.5 × ATR) came before the stop (1 × ATR) 57% of the time and the stop came first 39%; 4% went nowhere within 12 candles.

What is the tweezer bottom?

Two candles hit the same low. That floor held twice.