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 to spot a bearish harami
- 1Find a long green candle after a run higher.
- 2The next candle is small and its body sits entirely inside the green body.
- 3Read it as the advance stalling, and wait for a lower close to confirm.
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?
Bearish Harami: common questions
Is the bearish harami bullish or bearish?
The bearish harami is bearish. Watch for a close below the harami to confirm the trend change.
How do you spot a bearish harami?
Find a long green candle after a run higher. The next candle is small and its body sits entirely inside the green body. Read it as the advance stalling, and wait for a lower close to confirm.
What is the difference between the bearish harami and the bullish harami?
The bearish harami: A small red body sits inside the prior large green body. Buying pressure suddenly stalled. The bullish harami: A small green body sits inside the prior large red body. The selling pressure suddenly stalled.
How reliable is the bearish harami?
No chart pattern works every time. In a strong trend the pause resolves upward as often as not. The shape marks hesitation, and hesitation is not a turn. That is why it helps to wait for confirmation and to practice on many real examples before relying on it.
How can I practice spotting the bearish harami?
Use the real charts on this page: each one stops where the bearish harami completed, so you can make a call and then see what happened. The free Chartle app mixes the bearish harami in with 48 other patterns in short daily sessions.
Keep learning
- Chart pattern gameGuess where price goes next on real charts, all 49 patterns mixed.
- All 49 chart patternsEvery bullish and bearish pattern, with a printable cheat sheet.
- How to read candlestick chartsBodies, wicks and colors explained from the start.
- Cheat sheet PDFAll patterns on two printable pages.
