Identical shape, opposite meaning. A small body sitting below a long upper shadow — a Shooting Star at the top of a rally, an Inverted Hammer at the bottom of a decline. The mirror image of the Hammer and Hanging Man.
The Shooting Star and the Inverted Hammer share exactly the same shape: a small body sitting near the bottom of the candle, a long upper shadow at least twice the body's length, and little or no lower shadow. It is the Hammer and Hanging Man flipped upside down.
Two names exist because the figure means opposite things depending on where it appears. At the top of an uptrend it is a nagare-boshi — the Shooting Star — warning of a bearish reversal. At the bottom of a downtrend it is the Inverted Hammer, hinting at a bullish one. Same glyph, different story — the perfect mirror of the karakasa pair, and another reminder that candlestick reading lives inside its context.
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