CDLHANGINGMAN

Summary

Single candle with a small real body, a long lower shadow, and little/no upper shadow, sitting at or near the highs of the prior candle. Bearish reversal signal. A hit is a bearish reversal signal (meaningful at the top of an uptrend).

Notes

Does not verify the preceding uptrend that the pattern classically assumes; confirm the trend context yourself.

Inputs

inPriceOHLC — Open, High, Low, Close price series

Outputs

outInteger — -100 when detected (always bearish), 0 otherwise. Never emits +100

Implementation

TA-Lib Definition: cdlhangingman.c · cdlhangingman.yaml

Native	File
C	`ta_CDLHANGINGMAN.c`
Rust	`cdlhangingman.rs`
Java	`Core.java`

TA-Lib is also available for Python, R and more using a wrapper.

Aliases

Hanging Man