What is the bearish belt hold pattern?
The bearish belt hold is a bearish candlestick pattern. A red candle that opens at its high and moves down after a rally. Sellers are in control from the open.
How does the bearish belt hold form?
A bar opens at or very near its high after an advance and falls from the first print, closing well down its range.
How do you confirm a bearish belt hold?
Check the open sits at the very top. A small upper wick already weakens the reading. Someone was willing to buy higher.
When does the bearish belt hold fail?
It fails when the open was a thin gap up rather than genuine demand meeting supply.
No chart pattern works every time. The examples on this page were chosen because they show the pattern clearly, and in real markets patterns fail often.
Practice on real charts
3 real examples of the bearish belt hold, cut off where the pattern completed. Make your call, then see what happened.
The shaded area is a bearish belt hold. Where did price go next?
