Pin bars at levels: do you trade them?

A pin bar — a long wick with a small body — at a support or resistance level is the classic rejection signal. The context is everything: a pin in the middle of nowhere is just a wick.

What's your pin-bar ruleset?

• the level quality you require
• the wick-to-body ratio you accept
• how you handle pin bars that fail

The candlestick guide decodes the pin bar's anatomy.