Is Shooting Star Stock Indices Candle Pattern Bullish or Bearish?

Shooting Star candle-sticks pattern setup is a bearish reversal candle pattern setup. It occurs at tops of a market trend.

Shooting Star candlesticks pattern setup occurs at top of an up trend where the open price is same as the low & price then rallied up but was forced back downward to close near the open.

Shooting Star Bearish Candlesticks Pattern

Analysis of Shooting Star Candle-stick Pattern

A bearish reversal sell is confirmed when a candle closes below the neck line, this is opening of the candle on left side of this shooting star pattern. The neck-line in this case is a support zone.

Stop orders for the sell stock trades should be placed a few pips above highest price on the recent high once a trader decides to open trade transactions depending on this shooting star candle-sticks pattern setup. The Shooting Star candlesticks pattern setup is named so because at the top of an upward market trend this candlestick pattern looks like a shooting star up in the sky.