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 to spot a tweezer top
- 1Look for two or more neighbouring candles after an advance.
- 2Their highs land at almost exactly the same price.
- 3Price turns down from that shared high instead of breaking it.
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?
Tweezer Top: common questions
Is the tweezer top bullish or bearish?
The tweezer top is bearish. Matching highs mark where sellers are waiting. The level matters more than the candles.
How do you spot a tweezer top?
Look for two or more neighbouring candles after an advance. Their highs land at almost exactly the same price. Price turns down from that shared high instead of breaking it.
What is the difference between the tweezer top and the tweezer bottom?
The tweezer top: Two or more candles rejecting from almost exactly the same high. The tweezer bottom: Two or more candles bouncing from almost exactly the same low.
How reliable is the tweezer top?
No chart pattern works every time. Random bars share a high often, especially on lower timeframes. Without prior significance the match is coincidence. 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 tweezer top?
Use the real charts on this page: each one stops where the tweezer top completed, so you can make a call and then see what happened. The free Chartle app mixes the tweezer top 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.
