Beginner · Candlestick & chart patterns
Swing High
What it means
A session's high stands above the two sessions on either side of it, marking a confirmed local peak that may act as resistance if price returns to it.
At a glance
- Directional bias
- Bearish pivot
- Sessions to form
- 5 consecutive sessions
- Curriculum tier
- Beginner
- Pattern family
- swing pivot
Practise this pattern in the Simulator
Reading a definition is not the same as spotting one. Run Swing High 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 Swing High in the SimulatorRelated patterns
Swing Low
bullishA session's low sits below the two sessions on either side of it, marking a confirmed local trough that may act as support if price returns to it.
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 Swing High 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.