A rare and exceptionally powerful reversal: an isolated Doji separated from the candles on either side by gaps. The extreme form of the Morning Star and Evening Star.
The Abandoned Baby is the rarest and, when it appears, the most forceful of the three-candle reversal patterns.
Its defining condition is absolute: the Doji in the middle must be cut off entirely from the candles on either side by gaps.
The name says it all. The middle candle is the "abandoned baby" — its price does not connect to the candle before it or the one after, and not even its wicks touch them. It is left stranded on the chart as a single isolated point.
It helps to read this pattern as the Morning Star and Evening Star sharpened to their extreme.
Where a Star pattern only asks for a "small body" in the middle, the Abandoned Baby demands that the middle candle be a Doji, and that the gaps on both sides never be filled at all. The conditions are strict, so a confirmed Abandoned Baby carries unusual weight.
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