How to spot a Evening Star
- Appears after a rally
- Candle 1: long green
- Candle 2: small body, often above candle 1
- Candle 3: long red that closes below the middle of candle 1
What the Evening Star tells you
Candle 1 shows strong buying, candle 2 shows the buying stalling, and candle 3 shows sellers taking over. At resistance, it often marks the top of a move.
How traders use it
- Enter short on the close of candle 3 or on a small bounce
- Place the stop above the high of the star
- Target the next support zone
- Risk only a small, fixed part of your account on the trade.
Common mistakes
- Shorting when candle 3 is weak
- Ignoring a strong higher-timeframe uptrend
- Not checking volume
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Questions about the Evening Star
What does an evening star mean?
It signals a possible top: buying slows on the middle candle and sellers take control on the third.
Evening star vs bearish engulfing?
Both are bearish reversals. The evening star takes three candles and shows the slowdown step by step; the bearish engulfing happens in two.
For education only, not financial advice. The chart is an illustration of the pattern, not real market data. No pattern works every time; always use a stop-loss.