What is the evening doji star pattern?
The evening doji star is a bearish candlestick pattern. An evening star with a doji in the middle. It shows indecision at the high before sellers take over.
How does the evening doji star form?
An evening star whose middle bar is a doji: long green bar, then indecision at the high, then a red bar closing back into the first.
How do you confirm a evening doji star?
A doji directly at a high is the warning; the red bar after it is what makes the sequence a pattern rather than an observation.
When does the evening doji star fail?
In a persistent uptrend the doji is frequently a one-bar rest, and the third bar never arrives.
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 evening doji star, cut off where the pattern completed. Make your call, then see what happened.
The shaded area is a evening doji star. Where did price go next?
