What is the bullish harami pattern?
The bullish harami is a bullish candlestick pattern. A small green body sits inside the prior large red body. The selling pressure suddenly stalled.
How to spot a bullish harami
- 1Find a long red candle after a run lower.
- 2The next candle is small and its body sits entirely inside the red body.
- 3Read it as the decline stalling, and wait for a higher close to confirm.
How does the bullish harami form?
A long red bar is followed by a small bar whose entire body sits inside it. The second bar's range is contained by the first.
How do you confirm a bullish harami?
The point is the contraction: yesterday price moved a lot, today it barely moved. Sellers stopped pressing, which is not the same as buyers arriving.
When does the bullish harami fail?
On its own it stalls far more often than it turns. Without a bar that closes back above the harami, the contraction is simply a pause inside the same decline.
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 bullish harami, cut off where the pattern completed. Make your call, then see what happened.
The shaded area is a bullish harami. Where did price go next?
Bullish Harami: common questions
Is the bullish harami bullish or bearish?
The bullish harami is bullish. The harami is a pause, not a turn. The confirmation candle is what matters.
How do you spot a bullish harami?
Find a long red candle after a run lower. The next candle is small and its body sits entirely inside the red body. Read it as the decline stalling, and wait for a higher close to confirm.
What is the difference between the bullish harami and the bearish harami?
The bullish harami: A small green body sits inside the prior large red body. The selling pressure suddenly stalled. The bearish harami: A small red body sits inside the prior large green body. Buying pressure suddenly stalled.
How reliable is the bullish harami?
No chart pattern works every time. On its own it stalls far more often than it turns. Without a bar that closes back above the harami, the contraction is simply a pause inside the same decline. 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 bullish harami?
Use the real charts on this page: each one stops where the bullish harami completed, so you can make a call and then see what happened. The free Chartle app mixes the bullish 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.
