How to use Japanese Candlestick Patterns – Shooting Star and Hammer / Hanged man to make money

Another very useful candlestick pattern which any professional trader will be aware of, is the shooting star & hammer/hanging man. These are patterns which form from a single candlestick and can indicate that a reversal or new trend is about to start. We discuss these Japanese candlestick patterns below with some chart examples.

Japanese Candlestick Patterns – Shooting Star

Note that some knowledge of Japanese candlesticks is assumed on this page. Please see Japanese Candlesticks: An Introduction here, if you are new to Japanese Candlesticks: Japanese Candlesticks – an introduction – Trader Pro (trader-pro.co.uk)

The shooting star is formed by a single candle with a long upper wick and a very short or non existent lower wick. A picture of this type of candle is below.

Candlestick pattern - Shooting Star
Candlestick pattern – Shooting Star

The pattern is formed when there has been one last push/attempt by the bears to raise prices higher, but they failed and the closing price closed below, or very close, to the opening price.

Now let’s look at some examples on the charts:

Shooting Star & Hammer/Hanging man

You can see on this NASDAQ chart that the price was in a nice uptrend, until the shooting star appeared. Prices quickly descended from that point onwards.

How can you use the Japanese Candlestick pattern – Shooting Star in technical analysis?

If you are in a long position, waiting for prices to move higher and the shooting star candlestick pattern appears on the chart, it may, when taken with other indicators, indicate a good time to take profit off the table.

Japanese Candlestick Pattern – Hammer/Hanged Man

The Hammer/Hanged Man is the opposite of the shooting star. A picture of this type of candlestick pattern is below.

Japanese Candlestick Pattern - Hammer / Hanged Man
Japanese Candlestick Pattern – Hammer/Hanged Man

As in the case of the Shooting Star, the Hammer/Hanged Man candlestick pattern is formed when the sellers tried to push the price lower, but failed, and it closed very close to where it started. It can indicate a reversal of a downtrend/beginning of an uptrend.

Now lets take a look at some examples on the charts:

Shooting Star & Hammer/Hanging man
Hammer/Hanged Man candlestick pattern

You can see in the NASDAQ chart above that the price reached a low point and then the hammer/hanged man formed. The bulls took control – the candle is green in this instance so price was pushed all the way down the lower wick but came all the way back up again and closed higher than the candle’s opening spot. Following this, the price reversed in a strong uptrend pattern.

How can you use the Hammer/Hanged man in technical analysis?

If you are looking for an entry point or are waiting for a reversal, this candlestick pattern, when taken with other indicators, could give you a good entry point.

We hope this was useful. You are likely to see a great deal of these candlestick patterns on the charts – we hope you are able to make good use of them in becoming more profitable.

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How to make money trading! Trade set ups 19/09/2023

Hi guys

I wanted to share three different trade set ups with you – one which was a nice profit, another where the set up failed to progress in line with my intended entry plan and another where I am currently waiting to see if I should jump in… here goes!

Trade set ups – The profit maker: Natural Gas 19/09/2023

Here’s the daily chart screen shot – anyone familiar with my trading style will be aware that the daily time frame is the bible to me. You can see below that the market is slowly trending up… It was about to reach a ceiling in that it would soon touch / bump into the resistance lines on the daily timeframe – and potentially come back down. I made sure there was enough room to get a small trade in before it reached the orange line at around 2.9730:

Here it is again, this time on the ten minute timeframe:

You can see the markers with this timeframe of where I jumped in and out of the trade. My stop area would be below the moving average/lowest price most recently to the entry point.

The orange horizontal line is where I had marked exactly where the daily timeframe ceiling exists – so that I can see it on the smaller timeframes. By ceiling I am referring to the orange resistance line, mentioned above. Indeed you can see from how the trade played out, that the price did start to see resistance at that level.

Here’s a subsequent snapshot – you can see, as I predicted, the price fell back down from the orange line before going on to make new highs. This made a nice little profit. I’ve been trading the 10 minute timeframes most recently which i’ve started to enjoy. Some traders check the timeframes above the smaller ones like 1 hour, 4 hours etc but mostly I find I can make profit by just using the daily timeframe as my higher reference point.

Trade set ups – Silver 19/09/2023

I’m sharing the daily and ten minute timeframes below again. On this one, I was waiting for the price to come down to the red horizontal line (at around 23.226), a major support area marked on the daily timeframe. Unfortunately, the price sailed straight down through this line so I abandoned my plan to jump in:

The trade set up which I was waiting on… ZZZZZZZZZZ ZZZZZ – Apple trade set up 19/09/2023

Here’s a trade set up I was waiting on:

The price looked like it was bouncing at a recent major support level on the daily timeframe – if the MACD cross over happened on the 10 minute timeframe, I wanted to jump in…

Trade set ups – Apple – how it played out!

OK… so this one was really interesting for a beginner trying to learn. I actually got in and out of this twice based on what was happening on the chart… let me explain!

In the above chart screen shot you can see I entered the trade. My intention was to get out at the previous high on the ten minute timeframe. Everything was looking ok at this point. Then this happened:

It started to make a little bump over on the four minute timeframe. The MACD had crossed to the downside. It could have just been a healthy pull back. However, with the miniscule and red candles being formed since entry, I felt nervous enough to jump out again!

After this the price started to recover and show signs of a strong push up/it was bouncing/finding support at the EMA line:

I jumped back in. You can see the two different entry points and my first exit above. NB: there are two arrows on each entry/exit because I run two different parallel versions of my trading concurrently – this is not important… I just don’t want beginners to become confused.

Finally, the price reached my original target at around the previous high on the ten minute timeframe… BOOM!

Trade set ups

A couple of takeaway points can be made from this trade set up and the way it played out:

  1. You should not be afraid to jump out of a trade if you feel uncomfortable with how it is unfolding – you can always get back in!
  2. Sometimes the markets do not behave immediately the way you would like them to – patience is key.

We hope this helped! For more great tips and trading set ups visit our other blog pages at Trader Pro – Trading strategies for success in the financial markets (trader-pro.co.uk)

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Make money trading – some recent profitable trades 22/07/2023

Lets take a look at some of the opportunities Trader Pro took advantage of. Below you will find the breakdown and thought process behind some recent profitable trades. Enjoy!

Natural Gas – 30m timeframe – recent profitable trades

Natural Gas is starting to creep up after much time of consolidation. See the daily timeframe chart below. Here’s what the chart looked like before I jumped into my trade:

Natural Gas - recent profitable trades

The trading timeframe I used was the 30 minute timeframe. You can see on the daily chart that the price hit a new high and then came back down to the 50 period EMA and started to find support. This is where I was looking to get in – with a profit target around the red resistance level noted on the chart above.

Now lets take a look at the 30 minute timeframe:

I entered the trade as per the trade diagram above. The MACD was just crossing over, the RSI had reached a low point, the price was trading above the 50 period EMA. Profit target for around the resistance level as noted with the red horizontal line on the chart (per daily timeframe).

Lets see what happened next:

As you can see, as predicted, the price rose to the resistance level and burst through it. It became overbought at that point and began to lose momentum. I had exited by this point.

As previously, I like to share the reports from my trading platform so that you know these are genuine trades which were placed by Trader Pro. Lets take a look at my exit per my trading reports:

I hope you enjoyed this blog post and that it helps goes some way to helping you understand multiple timeframe analysis and how to view the markets and identify opportunities taking all the different factors into account – timeframes, entry indicators, other useful information – how overbought or oversold a market is etc, where to set the profit target and stop loss.

Happy trading!

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