Inside bars: do you trade the breakout of the mother bar?

An inside bar — a candle contained by the previous one's range — signals compression, and the trade is the break of the mother bar's high or low. In ranges it whipsaws; in trends it catches continuations.

How do you trade them?

• the conditions that make an inside bar tradeable
• your entry, stop and target on the break
• the regime where inside bars burn you

The candlestick guide covers the pattern's structure.