Experienced · Candlestick & chart patterns
Range Re-entry
What it means
Price left a well-defined band, failed to go on with the move, and closed back between the band's edges, so the sessions spent outside it settled nothing either way.
At a glance
- Directional bias
- Breakout failure
- Sessions to form
- 18 consecutive sessions
- Curriculum tier
- Experienced
- Pattern family
- breakout failure
Practise this pattern in the Simulator
Reading a definition is not the same as spotting one. Run Range Re-entry on real historical NSE daily bars in the Pattern Arena — the chart pauses and explains the formation each time it completes. Virtual capital only.
Practise Range Re-entry in the SimulatorRelated patterns
Squeeze Failure
indecisionRanges tightened to a squeeze, price broke out of it, and then closed back inside the tight band, so the pressure that had built up released and resolved nothing.
Morning Doji Star
bullishA strong down session is followed by one that closed exactly where it opened and then a strong up session, showing the decline stalling completely before buyers took over.
Evening Doji Star
bearishA strong up session is followed by one that closed exactly where it opened and then a strong down session, showing the advance stalling completely before sellers took over.
Abandoned Baby (Bull)
bullishA session that closed where it opened sits isolated below a decline, gapped away on both sides with no overlap at all, a rare exhaustion of selling at a potential bottom.
Abandoned Baby (Bear)
bearishA session that closed where it opened sits isolated above an advance, gapped away on both sides with no overlap at all, a rare exhaustion of buying at a potential top.
Upside Gap Two Crows
bearishPrice gapped higher then gave most of it back over two successive down sessions while still holding above the earlier close, showing buyers losing their grip near a potential top.
Educational reference only. This describes what traders conventionally read into the Range Re-entry formation. It is not a trading signal, a prediction or investment advice, and no pattern is reliable on its own. Finance Onyx is a simulated educational platform: all practice uses virtual capital and no order is ever routed to a broker or an exchange.