Indecision candle

An indecision candle is what a fight to a draw looks like. Price stretched up and got sold back. It stretched down and got bought back. When the period closed, it closed almost exactly where it opened. The body is the record of who won, and here the body is telling you that nobody did. ### How to spot one Judge the body against the candle's own range and against the candles around it. You are looking for a small body sitting near the middle, with wicks of roughly similar length above and below. Long wicks both sides means both attempts failed. That is the doji, and it is the one shape in the candle vocabulary that carries no direction. Two things it is not: - **It is not a rejection candle.** A rejection candle is directional. One long wick, body shoved to the far end. A long lower wick with the body up near the high is a bullish rejection, and that asymmetry is the whole signal. Indecision rejects both ways, which is the same as rejecting nothing. - **It is not a trigger.** No entry model in the system fires off a doji. Every valid entry needs a rejection candle plus either a sweep or divergence. Indecision hands you a candle and withholds the direction, so the gate stays shut. ### Why beginners lose money here The trap is location. An indecision candle that prints right on a level you marked feels like the market acknowledging your analysis. It is not. It is the market saying it has not decided, at the exact moment you most want an answer. Acting there is a guess, and guessing at a good level does not stop it being a guess. Wait for the close, then let the next candle pick a side and give you a real trigger. Sometimes that costs you the first part of the move. It also stops you being the person who bought the top of the wick. One related trap: a candle that currently looks like indecision may not close as one, and a candle that looks decisive can wick out and close as a doji. The live candle is a liar. Read shape on closed candles only. Context helps too. Indecision is common where liquidity is thin, such as the dead gap between the New York close and the Tokyo open, and it is common while the market coils ahead of red-folder news. The system already keeps you out of both windows. No session active on the chart means no trade, and no new setups go on in the 2 hours before a red-folder release.