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Tweezer Tops and Bottoms is known as a pattern that determines the bottom and top of a trend. Also known by names such as Railroad Tracks Pattern or Railway Track Candlestick Pattern.
What are Tweezer Tops and Bottoms?
Meaning of Tweezer Tops and Bottoms Candlesticks
The Tweezer candlestick pattern is a common pattern at the peak and bottom of a trend. For the uptrend, it is Tweezer Tops, when bulls take the price higher. In contrast, they are Tweezer Bottoms in the downtrend, when bears control the price to lower. Tweezer’s timing shows that the price has hit a top/bottom and will reverse.
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How to define Tweezer
The pattern of Tweezer is two or more opposing long candles in turn have the same size, which usually occurs at the peak of an uptrend and the bottom of a downtrend. Then the price will reverse the opposite direction, helping the Traders to predict the market trend.
- How to identify Tweezer Tops: In an uptrend, there appear two or more candles with consecutive long bodies in opposite directions.
- How to identify Tweezer Bottoms: When in a downtrend, two or more candles with opposite bodies appear with similar body length characteristic.
They are about the same size and almost parallel. So that is also known as Railroad Tracks Pattern or Railway Track Candlestick Pattern.
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How to use the Tweezer Tops and Bottoms candlestick pattern
The peak of the uptrend
Resistance is often combined when trying to trade with the Tweezer Tops pattern. When Tweezer appeared near the Resistance threshold, the price reached its peak and was about to turn to the downside. At this point, you should execute a sell order to take profit.
The bottom of the downtrend
Trading with the Tweezer Bottoms pattern occurs at the bottom of the downtrend. When Tweezer Bottoms occurred at the Support threshold, the price bottomed out and was about to reverse to the upside. You should make a buy to speculate on hoarding.
Time per session with Tweezer
Trading with Tweezer Tops and Bottoms is good for short term sessions like 1 minute, 5 minutes. Transactions with longer periods of time will affect pattern accuracy in a bad way.
Uses different indicators and patterns
The Tweezer model has relatively good accuracy when it comes to support for other indicators and models. This means that you cannot trade well if you rely solely on Tweezer. Combine with many other indicators and effective patterns such as RSI, CCI, MACD, Williams,… bring more advantages in trading.
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