Marubozu breakout
BullishA ceiling that kept capping price is closed through by a tall bar with almost no wicks, on volume well above the preceding stretch — leaving no upper wick records that the break was held all the way into the close
Most patterns resolve their way only 50–60% of the time — nearly half miss.
Textbook shape
How to read it
A stretch of ten bars that did not rise leaves a ceiling that kept capping price — the top of a box, the falling upper line of a triangle, or simply the last swing high after a few days of drift. This pattern is the day a tall candle with almost no wicks closes above it.
Three things have to line up. The ceiling must be a level that kept capping price rather than a high brushed once, the bar's wicks must be negligible against its body, and volume must be up on the preceding stretch. The missing upper wick is the crux: a day that clears the level intraday and gets pushed back leaves a long wick above, so closing without one records that the level was still held at the bell.
Counting across the full daily history of ~130 symbols, bars meeting all three held the level noticeably more often than bars that merely closed above the same ceiling. Context splits it further: a flat stretch in front (box or squeeze) held far better than a slide, which did no better than any breakout — hence the separate name for that case, the marubozu after a slide. Either way it records that the level was cleared, not that price keeps going.
Real example
US stockZMDaily
Completed 2025-08-22
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.
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