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Candlestick formation · Bullish

Hammer

What is it, in one line

Small body at the top of the range with a long lower wick, after a decline.

Bullish · 1 candle · verdict: Unresolved, not yet measured on this dataset

Bullish 1 candle Traditional claim
Schematic · the live site draws this from the rule

What has to be true

Small body at the top of the range with a long lower wick, after a decline. 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.

candles = 1 candle
direction = Bullish
trend filter = prior decline
forward window = 10 bars

Method

What the measurement says

Not in this package

Occurrence counts and forward returns for this formation are engine output. The design package carried the page inventory and the stylesheet, not the measured figures, so no numbers are shown here rather than invented ones.

Section-level result: across all 89 formations the mean edge over an arbitrary entry is +0.02pp, measured on 1,172,151 bars. Read this page against that finding.

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Other single-candle formations

All 89 →
Inverted Hammer Small body at the bottom with a long upper wick, after a decline.
Hanging Man The hammer shape, but appearing after a rise instead.
Shooting Star Small body at the bottom with a long upper wick, after a rise.
Doji Open and close within a hair of each other. Indecision by definition.

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