Candlestick formation · Bullish
What is it, in one line
A harami whose second candle is a doji.
Bullish · 2 candles · verdict: rule and thresholds below
A harami whose second candle is a doji. The engine checks the formation as an executable condition over open, high, low and close, with a trend filter applied before the count is kept.
Method
A long down candle followed by a doji whose whole body sits inside it. The stricter cousin of the harami — the second session did not merely narrow, it closed exactly where it opened.
The traditional claim
Traditionally read as a stronger signal than the plain harami, because indecision arrived rather than a small move in either direction.
How this detection is wrong
Every harami cross is also a bullish harami, so the counts overlap by construction. The difference between them prices what the doji adds.
Published so the count can be reproduced. Every figure below is a parameter of the rule, not a preference: change one and the occurrence count changes with it.
| Parameter | Meaning | Default |
|---|---|---|
| trendPeriod | bars of prior trend inspected | 5 |
| maxPriorSlope | prior slope must be below | -1 |
| minPriorBodyAtr | the preceding body, at least, in ATR | 0.5 |
| maxBodyPct | body, at most, as a share of the range | 0.05 |
| atrPeriod | bars of ATR used to size everything below | 14 |
These share enough geometry that a detector can return more than one of them on the same bar. The engine reports every match rather than picking a winner.
Every pair on the site that can be mistaken for another, and what separates each: the look-alikes index.
A long down candle followed by a doji whose whole body sits inside it. The stricter cousin of the harami — the second session did not merely narrow, it closed exactly where it opened. The detector also requires a prior downtrend, so the same shape in the wrong context is not counted.
It is read as bullish. Traditionally read as a stronger signal than the plain harami, because indecision arrived rather than a small move in either direction.
Every harami cross is also a bullish harami, so the counts overlap by construction. The difference between them prices what the doji adds.
As an executable rule over open, high, low and close, with 5 named parameters — including bars of prior trend inspected 5, prior slope must be below -1, the preceding body, at least, in ATR 0.5 — all published on this page so the count can be reproduced. Strict and loose variants are defined as well, so the sensitivity of the count to those thresholds is visible rather than assumed.
Measurement pending re-run
No hit rate is published here yet. The run that would supply one was computed on engine ca6d9e36c81c; the engine is now cfb08765de7c. Its candlestick rows included the still-forming bar, and it predates the chart formations entirely, so those figures have been withdrawn rather than published with a caveat. The definition above is unaffected: it is what the detector tests, and no re-run changes it.
Same shape, opposite reading
The shapes are close, and the prior trend is what decides which one fired: this rule requires a preceding downtrend, its mirror a preceding uptrend.
Bearish Harami Cross: A bearish harami whose second candle is a doji rather than a small body.