Everything that you need to know about the Black Marubozu candlestick pattern is here.
Today you’ll learn:
The Black Marubozu is a Japanese candlestick pattern.
It’s a bearish reversal pattern.
Usually, it appears after a price move to the upside and shows rejection from higher prices.
The pattern is bearish because we expect to have a bear move after a Black Marubozu appears at the right location.
It’s a reversal pattern because before the Black Marubozu appears we want to see the price going up, thus it’s also a frequent signal of the end of a trend.
The Black Marubozu pattern is also a mirrored version of the White Marobuzu candlestick pattern.
The Black Marubozu candlestick pattern is formed by one single candle.
Here’s how to identify the Black Marubozu candlestick pattern:
It looks like this on your charts:
The Black Marubozu candlestick pattern may appear a little different on your charts.
There are three versions of the Black Marubozu:
Here’s what it may look like on your charts:
To trade the Black Marubozu candlestick pattern it’s not enough to simply find a candle with the same shape on your charts.
Let me explain.
What makes a pattern valid is not just the shape, but also the location where it appears.
This means that the same shape appearing at different locations may have different meanings.
When trading the Black Marubozu, we want to see the price first going up, making a bullish move.
A Black Marubozu appearing after this bullish move is a sign of a possible reversal to the downside.
It looks like this:
Now you’re thinking.
“When do I open my trade?”
It’s simple, the Black Marubozu pattern is traded when the low of the candle is broken.
That’s your conservative trigger to short.
It looks like this:
Now, you also want to protect yourself because when trading things don’t always move as we expect.
And for that, we use a stop loss.
There are several different types of stop losses.
The most common is to use the other side of the pattern to set it.
Like this:
But wait, don’t jump into trading the Black Marubozu right yet.
There are a few more things to know.
Ideally, to increase the accuracy, we want to trade the Black Marubozu candlestick pattern by combining it with other types of technical analysis or indicators.
Here are a few strategies to trade the Black Marubozu pattern.
As a bearish reversal pattern, the Black Marubozu is a great pattern to watch for when the price is on a downtrend.
Just wait for a pullback to start, and then spot when the Black Marubozu appears.
That often signs the end of the pullback and the start of the new leg to the downside.
Here’s an example:
Support and resistance levels are great places to find price reversals.
Since we are looking for moves to the downside, we want to trade the Black Marubozu using resistance levels.
How does it work:
Here’s an example:
Moving averages are great trading indicators to trade trends.
The idea here is to trade pullbacks to the moving average when the price is on a downtrend.
How does it work:
This is a bit different from the other trading strategies.
To find a bearish RSI Divergence we want to see the price on an uptrend first, making higher highs and higher lows.
Here’s how it works:
It looks like this:
Another popular way of trading the Black Marubozu candlestick is using the Fibonacci retracement tool.
Fibonacci shows retracement levels where the price will tend to revert frequently.
Depending on the strength of the trend, different levels are more likely to work better with the Black Marubozu pattern. Here you can learn more about the different Fibonacci retracement levels.
Here’s how the strategy works:
Pivot Points are automatic support and resistance levels calculated using math formulas.
If you are day trading, the Daily Pivot Points are the most popular, although the Weekly and Monthly are frequently used too.
Here’s how to trade the Black Marubozu pattern with Pivot Points:
According to the Encyclopedia of Candlestick Charts by Thomas N. Bulkowski (link), the Black Marubozu candlestick pattern has a success rate of 54%.
Now I want to hear from you.
Do you trade the Black Marubozu candlestick pattern?
Let me know in the comments below.
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