CDLSHOOTINGSTAR

Summary

Single-candle pattern: a small real body with a long upper shadow and little-to-no lower shadow that gaps up from the prior candle's real body. Bearish reversal signal. A hit (-100) flags a bearish reversal at the top of an uptrend.

Notes

A preceding uptrend is not verified.

Inputs

inPriceOHLC — Open, High, Low, Close price series

Outputs

outInteger — -100 when the shooting star is detected, 0 otherwise. Only ever emits negative (bearish); never +100

Implementation

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

Native	File
C	`ta_CDLSHOOTINGSTAR.c`
Rust	`cdlshootingstar.rs`
Java	`Core.java`

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

Aliases

Shooting Star