What is a Bullish Spinning Top Candlestick Pattern?
A bullish spinning top is a single candle with a small real body, long wicks on both sides, and a close above the open. The body is tiny relative to the full range, so most of the action sits in the shadows — not in the body itself.
Translation: buyers and sellers slugged it out all session and neither walked away with much.
What Does a Bullish Spinning Top Candlestick Pattern Indicate?
A bullish spinning top shows a two-sided fight where neither side won. Sellers shoved price down. Buyers shoved it back up. The close finished green by a hair.
The long wicks tell you both extremes got rejected. The small body tells you net progress was limited. You'll typically see this pattern when selling pressure is being absorbed and the market is shifting from trend to balance — usually right before something changes.
Is the Bullish Spinning Top Candlestick Pattern Bullish or Bearish?
Bullish on the close. Neutral in practice. The candle leans bullish because it closed green — but it's still an indecision candle until the next bar confirms direction.
Treat it as a "pay attention" signal. Not a "fire the trade" signal. Big difference.
How to Identify a Bullish Spinning Top Candlestick Pattern?
A bullish spinning top is one candle with a small body sitting near the middle of the range, visible wicks on both sides, and a close above the open. Simple to spot once you know what you're looking at.
- Small real body relative to the full high-to-low range
- Upper wick AND lower wick both clearly visible — both meaningful in length
- Green body (close above open), but nothing wide or convincing
- Best read after a downmove or at a defined support area
⚠️ Warning: Spot one in the middle of random chop and it means nothing. Location is everything. The same candle at support = a setup. The same candle mid-range = noise.
How to Trade a Bullish Spinning Top Candlestick Pattern?
Wait for confirmation. Don't front-run the candle. The play: buy the break and close above the spinning top's high, set your stop below the spinning top's low, and aim for the next resistance.
- Entry: Buy the break and close above the spinning top high — or take the next candle after the confirmed close.
- Confirmation: A strong green candle with expansion range that holds above the spinning top's midpoint or high.
- Stop loss: Below the spinning top low (or below the nearest swing low if it sits just under the candle).
- Targets: First target = nearest prior swing high or supply zone. Further targets = next resistance if structure starts printing higher highs and higher lows.
🔥 Pro Tip: Tag every spinning top trade in your journal — location, confirmation strength, market context. Six months from now, you'll see exactly which contexts produced your winners and which ones drained the account. The pattern doesn't have one read. Your data tells you which version of it actually works for you.
What Happens After a Bullish Spinning Top Candlestick Pattern?
Price picks a side. Either it breaks the candle's high and trends up, or it breaks the low and resumes the prior down move. There's no third option that pays you.
The common path: a short consolidation around the spinning top's range, then an expansion candle that chooses direction. Failures usually show up as a quick push above the high that reverses and closes back inside the range. That's your fakeout — and your reason to bail if you jumped in early.
What are the Different Types of Bullish Spinning Top Candlestick Patterns?
There aren't standardized subtypes worth memorizing. Don't waste time hunting for them.
Most traders grade the same pattern two ways: by location (support vs. mid-range chop) and by the strength of the confirmation candle that follows. That's the work. Wick symmetry and body size variations don't change the read — context does.