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Hammer

A candlestick with a small body near the top of its range and a long lower wick, appearing after a decline.

Test: Lower Wick is at least twice the Body, Upper Wick is minimal, and the candle follows a decline qualitative
Technical Analysis & Chart Patterns

Hanging Man

A candlestick with a small body near the top of its range and a long lower wick, appearing after an advance.

Test: Lower Wick is at least twice the Body, Upper Wick is minimal, and the candle follows an advance qualitative
Technical Analysis & Chart Patterns

Harami

A two-candle formation in which a small body sits entirely within the range of the preceding large body.

Test: current body's high and low both fall inside the previous candle's body qualitative
Technical Analysis & Chart Patterns

Head and Shoulders

A formation of three peaks in which the middle peak is the highest and the outer two are roughly level, joined by a neckline through the…

Neckline = line through the two lows between the peaks; conventional measured move = Head Height above Neckline, projected down from the break qualitative
Technical Analysis & Chart Patterns

Heikin-Ashi

A modified candlestick chart in which each period's values are averaged with the previous period's to smooth the series.

HA Close = (Open + High + Low + Close) / 4; HA Open = (Previous HA Open + Previous HA Close) / 2