Experienced · Candlestick & chart patterns
Sweep Above Resistance
What it means
A long upper shadow reached past a ceiling price had respected for sessions and the close came straight back under it, showing the orders resting above were taken and not defended.
At a glance
- Directional bias
- Bearish reversal
- Sessions to form
- 18 consecutive sessions
- Curriculum tier
- Experienced
- Pattern family
- liquidity sweep
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Practise Sweep Above Resistance in the SimulatorRelated patterns
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Stop Hunt Wick
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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.
Educational reference only. This describes what traders conventionally read into the Sweep Above Resistance 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.