Doji
Neutral — the break decidesAlmost no body — a pause where forces balance at the end of a trend
Textbook shape
How to read it
Open and close nearly equal — almost no body. Price traveled all day and went nowhere: a recorded draw between buyers and sellers. Neutral by itself; location gives it meaning.
A doji at the end of a long advance or decline tends to read as the pause before balance breaks. The next bar's direction is the de facto verdict.
Real example
US stockAAPLDaily
Completed 2018-10-11
CryptoBTC-USDDaily
Completed 2015-07-27
A window SQMATE's detectors actually flagged in past bars. It records a day that worked out — the same shape doesn't always resolve the same way.
On SQMATE
No more eyeballing charts
You don't have to flip through charts hunting for shapes. Signal watch pings your browser the moment a condition is met, patterns on your watchlist arrive by email, and the screener lists every symbol that matched today.
SQMATE draws the lines
Support lines, trendlines, channels — the lines you need to read a pattern are drawn for you, so no time goes into drawing.
Patterns aren't the whole story
The same shape doesn't always resolve the same way. It's safer to read it together with candles, volume, and market context — news, catalysts, flows.