A small body flanked by upper and lower shadows of nearly equal length. Not quite a Doji — but a close cousin that records a session where both sides showed up in force and neither truly won.
The Spinning Top — koma in Japanese, the spinning toy — is a single candle whose small real body sits between upper and lower shadows of roughly equal length. The figure resembles a top wobbling on its axis, and the name fits the meaning.
The crucial distinction from the Doji is that the body exists. Slim as it is, the session did not close exactly where it opened — one side won by a hair. But that hair-thin victory is dwarfed by the long shadows on either side, which record how thoroughly both sides showed up to fight. A single candle holds, simultaneously, a tiny imbalance of outcome and a vast equality of effort.
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