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Candlesticks

Spinning Top

A candle with a small body and wicks on both sides of roughly similar length. Candlestick patterns like this are a shorthand for shifting buyer/seller psychology within a single period, and traders rarely treat them as a signal in isolation.

Meaning

What Spinning Top means

A candle with a small body and wicks on both sides of roughly similar length. Candlestick patterns like this are a shorthand for shifting buyer/seller psychology within a single period, and traders rarely treat them as a signal in isolation.

Trading context

Why it matters

It reflects indecision, often appearing before a pause or reversal. Traders progressing past the basics tend to lean on this more heavily as they start combining multiple concepts into a coherent trading approach.

Example

How traders may see it

Watched for context near key support/resistance levels. In practice, traders typically encounter this directly within their trading platform, charting software, or an economic calendar, depending on the specific context in which it arises.