What is the bearish harami pattern?
The bearish harami is a bearish candlestick pattern. A small red body sits inside the prior large green body. Buying pressure suddenly stalled.
How does the bearish harami form?
A long green bar is followed by a small bar contained entirely within it, showing that the advance suddenly stopped extending.
How do you confirm a bearish harami?
Check that the inside bar is genuinely small. A bar that fills most of its parent is a continuation of the same push, not a stall.
When does the bearish harami fail?
In a strong trend the pause resolves upward as often as not. The shape marks hesitation, and hesitation is not a turn.
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 harami, cut off where the pattern completed. Make your call, then see what happened.
The shaded area is a bearish harami. Where did price go next?
