What’s that on your neck? No, not your actual neck! The neck on your candlestick chart. The oddly named On Neck candlestick pattern, sometimes known as the On Neckline, is a two-candle pattern that appears after a downtrend. A bearish (black) candle is followed by a bullish (white) candle, and the close price of the second candle is very near to the close of the first. I suppose in this metaphor, the neckline is the close of the first candle, which the second candle almost hits with its close, but I’m open to interpretation. What do you think? Is the entire candle the neck? In any case, to learn more about this bearish continuation signal, today we’re exploring the formation and meaning of the On Neck candlestick pattern.
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