How do you spot a Tweezer Bottom candle?

Appears at the bottom of a downtrend or at key support: two consecutive candles with equal or nearly equal lows (within a few ticks). Candle 1: usually bearish, continuing the trend.

Is the Tweezer Bottom candle a bullish or bearish signal?

A bullish reversal pattern made of two candles, with confirmation: optional. Its reference success rate is 61%. You can spot it yourself on live daily candles for any symbol in the members' technical terminal.

Bullish signal ▲ · pattern 15

Tweezer Bottom

A Tweezer Bottom forms when two consecutive candles share the same low (or nearly), at the bottom of a downtrend. The matching low marks a price where buyers held twice in a row, building a clear support floor.

PATTERN ID

Signal Bullish ▲

Reliability ★★★☆☆

Win Rate 61%

Expected move +3–7%

Timeframe Daily / 4 hours

Confirmation optional

The short answer

What is a Tweezer Bottom candle?: A Tweezer Bottom (Tweezer Bottom) forms when two consecutive candles share the same low (or nearly), at the bottom of a downtrend. The matching low marks a price where buyers held twice in a row, building a clear support floor.
How do you spot a Tweezer Bottom candle?: Appears at the bottom of a downtrend or at key support: two consecutive candles with equal or nearly equal lows (within a few ticks). Candle 1: usually bearish, continuing the trend.
Is the Tweezer Bottom candle a bullish or bearish signal?: A bullish reversal pattern made of two candles, with confirmation: optional. Its reference success rate is 61%. You can spot it yourself on live daily candles for any symbol in the members' technical terminal. Open the technical terminal →

Pattern illustration

A dashed line showing equal lows: a support floor

How to identify the pattern

Step-by-step checks

Appears at the bottom of a downtrend or at key support
Two consecutive candles with equal or nearly equal lows (within a few ticks)
Candle 1: usually bearish, continuing the trend
Candle 2: usually bullish, signaling rejection
More convincing with long lower shadows on both candles

Trading psychology

The power struggle between buyers and sellers

Price reaches a new low and sellers cannot push further, as buyers defend in the first candle. In the next session the same low is tested and buyers defend again. Two rejections at the same price build a clear support floor.

Outlook and confirmation

Entry conditions and expected price move

Optional, adds confidence

Especially strong at major support levels, Fibonacci retracements or round numbers. The stop-loss goes just below the shared low.

Ideal setting for the pattern

At key support

Typical timeframe: daily / 4 hours

Where to find it on the platform

Technical terminal for members
Shows the daily-timeframe candles for any symbol on the platform's list. You identify the pattern by eye: the terminal does not name it.

How it is traded in practice

A Tweezer Bottom is two consecutive candles (red, then green) touching nearly the same low: sellers tested the level twice in two sessions and were turned back from the exact same point. A defense that precise suggests real orders resting there. Traders often wait for the second candle to close above the midpoint of the first, or for a third candle as confirmation, with the stop just under the double low. The precision of the level is the advantage: a close, clearly defined stop and an excellent risk/reward ratio.

Common mistake

Being too loose about matching the two lows: a sizable gap between the lows turns a tweezer into two ordinary consecutive declines. Ignoring context is another: a tweezer at visible support after an extended decline is a pattern, while a tweezer in the middle of a range is noise. And forgetting that the pattern is short-term by nature: it points to a bounce, not a reversal of the larger trend.