Beginner · Candlestick & chart patterns
Bullish Marubozu
What it means
Price opened at its low, closed at its high and left almost no shadow at either end, so buyers held control for the whole session and the move may potentially continue.
At a glance
- Directional bias
- Bullish momentum
- Sessions to form
- 1 trading session
- Curriculum tier
- Beginner
- Pattern family
- marubozu
Practise this pattern in the Simulator
Reading a definition is not the same as spotting one. Run Bullish Marubozu 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 Bullish Marubozu in the SimulatorRelated patterns
Bearish Marubozu
bearishPrice opened at its high, closed at its low and left almost no shadow at either end, so sellers held control for the whole session and the move may potentially continue.
Doji
indecisionPrice travelled through the session and closed right back where it opened, so neither buyers nor sellers won and the current trend has lost its conviction.
Hammer
bullishSellers forced price sharply lower and buyers bought all of it back before the close, rejecting the lower prices and hinting at a potential floor.
Bullish Engulfing
bullishBuyers have overwhelmed sellers, erasing the whole of the previous down session in one move and indicating a potential reversal upward.
Bearish Engulfing
bearishSellers have overwhelmed buyers, erasing the whole of the previous up session in one move and indicating a potential reversal downward.
Morning Star
bullishA strong down session is followed by a small-bodied pause and then a strong up session, showing selling pressure fading and buyers taking over at a potential bottom.
Educational reference only. This describes what traders conventionally read into the Bullish Marubozu 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.