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- Shooting Star and Inverted Hammer

Shooting Star and Inverted Hammer

The Shooting Star and the Inverted Hammer are the next reversal signals but not so strong as the previous ones:

The Shooting Star and The Inverted Hammer

The Shooting Star and The Inverted Hammer

Their characteristics:

A small real body of any color is at the bottom of a candle.
Upper shadow is very long.
Lower shadow is very small or missing.

A real body of the ideal Shooting Star / Inverted Hammer and a prior candle's real body have a gap between them but it is not required.

The Shooting Star

The Shooting Star

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