How Can Spinning Tops Candlesticks and Doji Patterns on Cryptocurrency Charts Be Traded?
Spinning Tops Cryptocurrency Candlestick Patterns
Spinning tops candlesticks pattern have a small body with long upper and lower shadows. These spinning tops are referred to by this name of spinning tops because they are similar to spinning tops on a matchstick.
The upper and lower shadows of the spinning tops are longer than the body. The example illustrated below shows the spinning top pattern. You can look for the pattern on your MT4 Bitcoin Platform charts. The example illustrated below shows a screenshot to help traders when it comes to learning and understanding these formations.
How to read candlestick crypto charts - Spinning Tops
Color of spinning tops candle is not very important, this formation show the indecision between the buyers and sellers in the btcusd trading market. When these btcusd patterns appear at the top of a trend or at the bottom of the trend it might signal that the trend is coming to an end & it may soon reverse and start going the other direction. However, it is best to wait for confirmation signals that the direction of a trend has reversed before trading the signal from this chart formation.
Candle Stick Reversal Patterns Formations on Trading Charts
At the top of an upwards trend a black/red spinning tops shows that a reversal is more likely than when color of the candlestick is white/blue.
At the bottom of a Cryptocurrency downward trend a white/blue spinning top shows that a reversal is more likely than when the color is black/red.
This reversal cryptocurrency signal is confirmed when the next candlestick pattern that forms after the spinning tops closes below the neckline for a downward trend reversal cryptocurrency signal confirmation, and closes above the neckline for a reversal cryptocurrency signal in a downward trend.
The neckline is:
- For an Upwards Bitcoin Trend - The open of the previous candlestick that was drawn just before the spinning top.
- For a Downward Bitcoin Trend - The open of the previous candlestick that was drawn just before the spinning top
Shown Below is an example of this Japanese charting techniques where this pattern has formed & how to trade it. On the trading chart below when the bitcoin price moved above the neckline the reversal cryptocurrency signal given by the spinning top candlestick was confirmed and this was a good point to exit the short sell bitcoin trade.
Spinning Top Pattern on a Chart
The color of the spinning top formed is blue therefore meaning that a reversal was more likely as opposed to if the color had been red.
Doji Candlesticks Pattern
This is a pattern with same opening & closing bitcoin price. There are various types of doji candlestick patterns that form on charts.
The following example show various patterns of the doji candle-stick:
Long-legged doji candlestick has long upper & lower shadows with opening and closing bitcoin price at the middle. When Long legged doji appears on a Bitcoin chart it indicates indecision between cryptocurrency traders, buyer & the sellers.
Shown Below is an example screenshot image of the Long Legged
- Doji cryptocurrency chart pattern
Cross Doji Candlestick
Cross doji has a long lower shadow & a short upper shadow & the open & close of the day is the same.
This bitcoin pattern appears at market turning points and warns of a possible trend reversal in the Bitcoin. Below is as example of this chart formation
- Cross Doji Pattern
Inverted Cross Doji Bitcoin Trading Candlestick Pattern
Inverted cross doji candles have a long upper shadow & a short lower shadow & the open & close is the same.
This reversal bitcoin pattern appears at market turning points and warns of a possible trend reversal in the Bitcoin. Below is an example
- Inverted Cross doji
Technical Analysis in BTCUSD Trading - All doji candlesticks pattern show indecision in the btcusd trading market this is because at the top of the buyers were in control, at the bottom the sellers were in control but none of them could gain control & at the close of the btcusd trading market the bitcoin price closed unchanged at the same bitcoin price as the opening bitcoin price. This doji shows that the overall bitcoin price movement for that day was zero pips or just a minimum range of 1-3 pips. Reading these charts patterns require very small pip movement between the opening bitcoin price & closing bitcoin price.