What is the tweezer top pattern?
The tweezer top is a bearish candlestick pattern. Two or more candles rejecting from almost exactly the same high.
How does the tweezer top form?
Two or more neighbouring bars reach almost exactly the same high and turn away from it.
How do you confirm a tweezer top?
What matters is the level, not the bars. Matching highs mark a price where sellers were waiting twice. Check whether that level has history further left.
When does the tweezer top fail?
Random bars share a high often, especially on lower timeframes. Without prior significance the match is coincidence.
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 tweezer top, cut off where the pattern completed. Make your call, then see what happened.
The shaded area is a tweezer top. Where did price go next?
