What is the bearish kicker pattern?
The bearish kicker is a bearish candlestick pattern. Price gaps down and never recovers: a green candle is followed by a red candle opening below it.
How does the bearish kicker form?
A green bar, then the next bar opens below it and never trades back into it.
How do you confirm a bearish kicker?
Kickers usually follow news. Check whether the gap holds through the session, because that is what distinguishes a shift from a spike.
When does the bearish kicker fail?
A gap down that fills the same day says the market absorbed whatever caused it, and the shape loses its meaning.
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 kicker, cut off where the pattern completed. Make your call, then see what happened.
The shaded area is a bearish kicker. Where did price go next?
