Harami

Harami is the definitive clean detector for the harami — a wide-bodied candle followed by one whose real body holds entirely inside it. Containment is measured on real bodies — wicks may protrude — and quality filters demand a wide first body, a capped inner body and a directional leg feeding the pattern. Each pattern draws two dashed levels: the trigger a close must beat to confirm the reversal, and the void level whose closing break cancels it as continuation.

How to Trade the Harami?

• Harami label prints: hesitation, not a completed reversal — the wide move met a candle that failed to extend it.
• Close beyond the trigger level: the pattern confirms in the reversal direction — marked with a check and alerted.
• Close through the void level: hesitation resolved as continuation, cancelling the pattern.

A doji inside candle prints as Harami Cross, the limit case of the contraction; label tooltips grade each pattern's contraction and containment.

Harami Settings

• Wide First Body (default enabled) with Multiple (default 1.0) and Length (default 14): the first body must exceed the trailing average body.
• Max Inner Body % (default 50): largest inside body allowed relative to the first.
• Doji Body % of Range (default 5): the body limit that counts as a doji.
• Harami Cross Only (default disabled): keep only doji-inside patterns.
• Trend Context Filter (default enabled) with Trend Basis (default SMA) and Length (default 50): bullish patterns only below the average, bearish only above.
• Resolution Range (default First Candle Body): resolve on the first body or the full two-candle range.
• Trigger & Void Levels (default enabled), Levels Extension (default 10), Resolution Markers (default enabled).
• Style toggles: labels and candle coloring on by default; the trend MA plot off.

Frequently Asked Questions

How does the Harami differ from the Engulfing Bar?

They are geometric opposites: an Engulfing Bar expands over the prior candle's body, while a harami contracts inside it. One shows the counter-side seizing control; the other, participation drying up.

Why do some body-inside-body candles go unlabeled?

The filters are working: the first candle may be too narrow against its 14-bar average, the inside body too large, or the trend filter found no leg into the pattern. Disable individual filters to flag the raw geometry anywhere.

Which Resolution Range should I use?

First Candle Body is the conventional read — the pattern resolves once a close clears the first candle's body. Full Pattern Range demands the close clear the two-candle extremes: fewer, later resolutions for stricter proof.