Climax moves: how do you trade exhaustion?

A vertical move with accelerating candles often marks exhaustion rather than a new trend — the last buyers spent, the reversal next. Timing it is the art, and the traps are many.

Climax moves: how do you trade exhaustion? — candlestick anatomy diagram
The parts of a candlestick: wick, body, open and close

What's your exhaustion playbook?

  • the signals that a move is climaxing
  • how you enter against it safely
  • the climax that kept going and taught you patience
Climax moves: how do you trade exhaustion? — trend versus range diagram
A trending market compared with a ranging one

The candlestick guide describes the candle signatures of exhaustion.

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