Experienced · Candlestick & chart patterns
Volume After Squeeze
What it means
Turnover dried up while ranges tightened and then expanded sharply as price left the band, which is the sequence a genuine move out of a quiet stretch tends to print.
At a glance
- Directional bias
- Bullish continuation
- Sessions to form
- 18 consecutive sessions
- Curriculum tier
- Experienced
- Pattern family
- volume expansion
Practise this pattern in the Simulator
Reading a definition is not the same as spotting one. Run Volume After Squeeze 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 Volume After Squeeze in the SimulatorRelated patterns
Volume Breakout
bullishThe session that closed beyond a level traded far more than the sessions that built it, so the break carried participation rather than drifting through on a quiet day.
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 Volume After Squeeze 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.