Everything that you need to know about the Inverted Hammer candlestick pattern is here.
Today you’ll learn:
The Inverted Hammer is a Japanese candlestick pattern.
It’s a bullish reversal pattern.
It usually appears after a price decline and shows rejection from lower prices.
It’s a bullish pattern because we expect to have a bull move after an Inverted Hammer appears at the right location.
It’s a reversal pattern because before the Inverted Hammer appears we want to see the price going up, thus it’s also a frequent signal of the end of a trend.
The Inverted Hammer pattern is also a mirrored version of the Hammer Candlestick Pattern.
The Inverted Hammer candlestick pattern is formed by one single candle.
Here’s how to identify the Inverted Hammer candlestick pattern:
It looks like this on your charts:
The Inverted Hammer candlestick pattern may appear a little different on your charts.
The color of the body doesn’t matter, it can be either red or green (bearish or bullish).
The existence or not of a wick (shadow) at the bottom doesn’t matter too. As long as it’s small you’re good to go.
Here’s what it may look like on your charts:
To trade the Inverted Hammer candlestick pattern it’s not enough to simply find a candle with the same shape on your charts.
In fact, there are other candlestick patterns that have the exact same shape, like the Shooting Star.
Confused?
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 Inverted Hammer, we want to see the price first going down, making a bearish move.
An Inverted Hammer appearing after this bearish move is a sign of a possible reversal to the upside.
It looks like this:
Now you’re thinking.
“When do I open my trade?”
It’s simple, the Inverted Hammer pattern is traded when the high of the candle is broken.
That’s your conservative trigger to go long.
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.
But wait, don’t jump into trading the Inverted Hammer right yet.
There are a few more things to know.
Ideally, to increase the accuracy, we want to trade the Inverted Hammer candlestick pattern by combining it with other types of technical analysis or indicators.
Here are a few strategies to trade the Inverted Hammer pattern.
As a bullish reversal pattern, the Inverted Hammer is a great pattern to watch for when the price is on an uptrend.
Just wait for a pullback to start, and then spot when the Inverted Hammer appears.
That often signs the end of the pullback and the start of the new leg to the upside.
Here’s an example:
Support and resistance levels are great places to find price reversals.
Since we are looking for moves to the upside, we want to trade the Inverted Hammer using support 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 an uptrend.
How does it work:
It looks like this:
This is a bit different from the other trading strategies.
To find a bullish RSI Divergence we want to see the price on a downtrend first, making lower lows and lower highs.
Here’s how it works:
Another popular way of trading the Inverted Hammer 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 Inverted Hammer 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 Inverted Hammer pattern with Pivot Points:
According to the Encyclopedia of Candlestick Charts by Thomas N. Bulkowski (link), the Inverted Hammer candlestick pattern has a success rate of 67%.
Now I want to hear from you.
Do you trade the Inverted Hammer candlestick pattern?
Let me know in the comments below.
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