Dark Cloud Cover Candlestick

A dark cloud cover is a candlestick chart pattern that signals the start of a bear move to the downside. It looks like this.



Note that the candlestick that makes up the dark cloud cover must:

• Have an opening price above the closing price (i.e. must be a red or black candle).
• Have a closing price that is inside the range of the previous day and be below the mid-point of the open and close of the previous day.
• Have an opening price above the high of the previous day (i.e. an extreme gap open).

A dark cloud cover pattern starts off with what looks like the bullish trend is going to continue by starting the candle with an extreme gap open and then usually a move up but when the bulls give up and the bears take over the candle ends up red with a close below the mid-point of the previous day's high and low. This is the indication that the bull run is over and a bearish down move might be starting.