High Wave Candle – What Is And How To Trade

Everything that you need to know about the High Wave candlestick pattern is here.

Today you’ll learn:

• What Is The High Wave Candlestick Pattern
• How To Identify The High Wave Candlestick Pattern
• Variants Of The High Wave Candlestick Pattern
• How To Trade The High Wave Candlestick Pattern
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What Is The High Wave Candlestick Pattern

The High Wave is a Japanese candlestick pattern.

It’s an indecision candle, meaning that when it appears, the price is not showing the intention to move in any particular direction.

For this reason, when you see them, it’s a good practice to stay away and wait for clear price action showing a move starting in some direction.

How To Identify The High Wave Candlestick Pattern

The High Wave candlestick pattern is formed by one single candle.

Here’s how to identify the High Wave candlestick pattern:

1. A candle doesn’t have a body
2. It has wicks above and below with really big size

It looks like this on your charts:

Variants of the High Wave Candlestick Pattern

The High Wave candlestick pattern may appear a little different on your charts.

The body may be green or red, the only requirement is that it’s small.

Here’s what it may look like on your charts:

Don’t confuse the High Wave candle with other very similar: the Doji candle and the Spinning Top candle.

The only difference between them is the size of the wicks. The Doji candle is the one that has the smaller wicks. The High Wave has very big wicks. The Spinning Top is in the middle.

How To Trade The High Wave Candlestick Pattern

The High Wave candle is an indecision candle, meaning that the market is not showing anything about where it wants to go.

For this reason, while the market is undecided, we stay away and wait for at least one more candle, or pattern to appear.

Once we get more information, we can combine bullish or bearish candlestick patterns with technical indicators and trade with more confidence.

This is what you learned today

• The High Wave is a single candle pattern.
• It’s an indecision candle, meaning that we should wait for further price action to take any trading decision

Now I want to hear from you.

Do you use the High Wave candlestick pattern?

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