Homing Pigeon

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Figure 1. Homing Pigeon pattern.

Japanese name: shita banare kobato gaeshi
Forecast: bullish reversal
Trend prior to the pattern: downtrend
Opposite pattern: Descending Hawk, Bearish Harami

Construction:

• First candle
  • a candle in a downtrend
  • black body
• Second candle
  • black body
  • candle’s body engulfed by the prior candle’s body

The Homing Pigeon is a two-line bullish counterpart of the Descending Hawk. It is also closely related to the Bullish Harami pattern. All these patterns belong to the harami patterns family.

The first line, being a black candle, engulfs the second line, being also a black candle. The length of the candles shadows does not matter. The first candle of the pattern can be any black candle appearing on as a long line, i.e.: Black Candle, Long Black Candle, Black Marubozu, Opening Black Marubozu, Closing Black Marubozu.

The second candle can be any black candle appearing both as a short or a long line, i.e. Short Black Candle, Black Candle, Long Black Candle, Black Marubozu, Opening Black Marubozu, Closing Black Marubozu.

As a bullish reversal pattern, the Homing Pigeon needs to be formed in a downtrend because it predicts its reversal.

The pattern must be confirmed on the subsequent candles. It may be for example an upward breakout of a resistance zone or a trendline and closing above the pattern. Otherwise, an appearance of the pattern should be seen as a temporary pause of a price decline. The one should be careful because the first line of the Homing Pigeon pattern forms a resistance area.

Figure 2. Between a High Wave and an Opening Black Marubozu, a strong resistance zone is created. In such market context, a Homing Pigeon pattern is formed. Its first line, the Opening Black Marubozu, is closed by a Doji candle, which indicates, however, some market indecision. Indeed, the resistance area works for about a month and then the price breaks out upward.

Figure 3. Similarly as in the previous example, a Homing Pigeon appearance is preceded by a resistance area containing, among other candles, two Black Candles. The bulls did not even try to stop the bears, and a day after the pattern appeared, the price drops.

Homing Pigeon statistics

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