Inside Bar Trading: What Range Contraction Reveals

Summary

Hollow Point Trading shares an original animation explaining how an inside bar forms when its high and low stay within the previous candle’s boundaries. The video shows why marking the larger bar’s range matters: a break that holds offers different evidence than one that returns inside, while the smaller candle alone does not predict direction.

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Inside Bar Trading: What Range Contraction Reveals
An inside bar has a high below the previous high and a low above the previous low. Mark the larger bar’s boundaries. A later break and hold provides different evidence from a break that returns inside; the smaller candle alone does not pick a direction.

Original Hollow Point Trading animation using an illustrative price sequence and HPT narra...

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