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Inside bar on Walmart

On Walmart the inside bar showed up 639 times. Within 12 candles price broke up 59% of the time, broke down 41% and stayed inside 0%.

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

By timeframe

TimeframeFoundBroke upBroke downStayed inside
Daily24564%36%0%
Hourly39455%45%0%

Walmart against the rest

ChartsFoundBroke upBroke downStayed inside
Walmart63959%41%0%
All US stock market charts18,99554%46%0%
Every market274,73650%48%2%

Year by year

YearFoundBroke upBroke down
20162763%37%
20172654%46%
20182584%16%
20192162%38%
20201974%26%
20212658%38%
20221958%42%
20232167%33%
20244564%36%
202522656%44%
202618454%46%

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 Walmart

Stochastic bearish cross · Stochastic bullish cross · MACD bearish cross · Spinning top · Doji · Volume profile bounce · RSI overbought drop · EMA 9/21 bearish cross · EMA 9/21 bullish cross · Gap down · all of them

The inside bar elsewhere

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

Questions

How often does the inside bar work on Walmart?

In 639 cases on Walmart, price broke up 59% of the time, broke down 41% and stayed inside 0% within 12 candles.

What is the inside bar?

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