How to Read a Tweezer Top
Two candles with matching highs after an uptrend -- a level that has now rejected buying twice in a row.
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2-candle pattern · Bearish reversal
A tweezer top is the mirror image of a tweezer bottom: two consecutive candles whose highs land at almost exactly the same price, appearing after an uptrend. It shows a specific level has now twice rejected further buying, and may be acting as resistance.
As with a tweezer bottom, the signal is stronger when the second candle is bearish and closes well off its high, and weaker in fast-moving conditions where two similar highs could just as easily be coincidence as a genuine rejection of the level.
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This article is educational only and isn’t a recommendation to trade any particular instrument or pattern — no candlestick pattern works in isolation. See the full candlestick guide for how patterns like this one fit into a broader approach.