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  Up arrow16,800 or 15,700 by 11/15/2024
  Up arrow1,075 or 1,000 by 11/15/2024
  Up arrow19,000 or 17,600 by 11/15/2024
  Up arrow5,900 or 5,600 by 11/15/2024
As of 11/01/2024
  Indus: 42,052 +288.73 +0.7%  
  Trans: 16,351 +99.18 +0.6%  
  Utils: 1,019 -17.89 -1.7%  
  Nasdaq: 18,240 +144.77 +0.8%  
  S&P 500: 5,729 +23.35 +0.4%  
YTD
 +11.6%  
 +2.8%  
 +15.6%  
 +21.5%  
 +20.1%  
  Targets    Overview: 10/31/2024  
  Up arrow43,100 or 41,250 by 11/15/2024
  Up arrow16,800 or 15,700 by 11/15/2024
  Up arrow1,075 or 1,000 by 11/15/2024
  Up arrow19,000 or 17,600 by 11/15/2024
  Up arrow5,900 or 5,600 by 11/15/2024

Bulkowski on the Southern Doji Candle Pattern

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The southern doji is supposed to act as a bullish reversal candlestick, and it does, but just 52% of the time. I call that "near random." If you found one charging at you while on safari, you would not know which way to turn. Most doji candlesticks that I have studied are just like that: They act randomly.

Important Results
Discussion
Identification Guidelines
Three Trading Tidbits
Example
See Also

Southern Doji Candlestick: Important Results

Theoretical performance: Bullish reversal
Tested performance: Bullish reversal 52% of the time
Frequency rank: 8
Overall performance rank: 78
Best percentage meeting price target: 90% (bull market, up breakout)
Best average move in 10 days: 3.51% (bear market, up breakout)
Best 10-day performance rank: 50 (bear market, up breakout)

All ranks are out of 103 candlestick patterns with the top performer ranking 1. "Best" means the highest rated of the four combinations of bull/bear market, up/down breakouts.

The above numbers are based on hundreds of perfect trades. See the glossary for definitions.

The ideal southern doji candlestick
Southern Doji

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Southern Doji Candlestick: Discussion

Theory matches the performance found in the field: the southern doji acts as a bullish reversal but only 52% of the time. Based on the frequency rank (8), you will find it often in a historical price trend, but performance after the breakout ranks well down the list of performers: 78. Since I only looked at 103 candlesticks, with 1 being best, the southern doji is not one worth hunting for.

After the breakout, price meets the measure rule target 90% of the time. That means if you add the height to the top of the doji, price will reach it 90% of the time before the trend ends. That is a good score but it only applies to upward breakouts in a bear market. The best average rise is 3.51% over 10 days which I consider poor. Rises of 6% or more get me hot!

Southern Doji Candlestick: Identification Guidelines

CharacteristicDiscussion
Number of candle linesOne.
Price trend leading to the patternDownward.
ConfigurationLook for a doji candlestick (one in which the opening and closing prices are a few pennies from each other) in a downward price trend.

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Southern Doji Candlestick: Three Trading Tidbits

If you want a few bones from my Encyclopedia of candlestick charts book, here are three to chew on. The pages refer to the book where the tips appear.

  1. Southern doji candles that appear within a third of the yearly low perform best -- page 260.
  2. Southern doji candles with shadows taller than the median outperform -- page 261.
  3. Southern doji within a third of the yearly high tend to act as reversals -- page 262.

Southern Doji Candlestick: Example

The southern doji candlestick on the daily scale

Shown is a southern doji (A) on the daily chart. This doji has the opening and closing prices the same and it appears in a downward price trend -- all the ingredients to qualify it as a southern doji. Price reverses trend when it breaks out upward (a close above the top of the doji).

-- Thomas Bulkowski

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