How to recognize it
- Two (or more) neighboring candles with matching, or nearly matching, extremes.
- Tweezer bottom: matching lows after a decline. Tweezer top: matching highs after an advance.
- Often the first candle moves with the trend and the second moves against it.
What it suggests
The market tested the same price twice and was turned back both times, marking a short-term floor (bottom) or ceiling (top).
Where it matters
Matching lows at a known support zone, or matching highs at resistance, mean much more than matching extremes in the middle of nowhere. On short timeframes matching prices are common and mean little.
Variants
Educational content only. Candlestick patterns describe past price action. They do not predict future prices, and they are not trading signals or investment advice. Prices in the diagrams are illustrative.