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Pin bar — definition & meaning

A candle with a long wick showing rejection of a price level.

A pin bar has a small body and one long wick, showing that price was pushed to an extreme and then rejected back within the period.

A long lower wick suggests buyers stepped in; a long upper wick suggests sellers did. Pin bars near support or resistance are popular reversal signals, though like all patterns they can fail.

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Related terms

Candlestick
A chart bar showing the open, high, low and close for a period.
Doji
A candlestick where the open and close are almost equal.
Support
A price level where buying has tended to stop a decline.
Resistance
A price level where selling has tended to stop an advance.
Volatility
How much and how quickly a price moves over time.
Volume
The number of units traded over a period — a gauge of activity.

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