A harami where the inside candle is a doji, making the pause in momentum as pronounced as it can be.
Same structure as a harami but the second candle's open and close are essentially equal. After a large directional bar, the market produced complete indecision.
It is treated as a stronger warning than a plain harami because the follow-through stopped dead rather than merely slowing. At the end of an extended trend, a harami cross near a known resistance level is worth taking seriously.
The trading logic is unchanged: the doji's tiny body gives no direction, so wait for price to break the large candle's range. Expect a meaningful share of harami crosses to resolve in the original trend direction. The pattern tells you momentum stalled; it does not tell you which way the stall breaks.
Original diagrams for the ideas on this page. Illustrative, not real market data.
The parts of a candlestick. One candle sums up a slice of time: the thick real body runs from the opening price to the closing price, and the thin wicks reach out to the highest and lowest prices traded. Colour tells you which way the body ran.
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