Tweezer Bottom: matching lows and what they actually confirm

The mirror of the tweezer top — two consecutive bars with near-identical lows — read as a support observation, not a strong standalone signal.

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What it measures

A tweezer bottom is two consecutive bars whose lows land at essentially the same price, typically the first down and the second up.

It measures a level that held twice in a row rather than once.

How it is calculated

These are the steps Basis performs, verified against the published definition.

  1. 1

    Two consecutive bars with lows within a small tolerance of each other.

  2. 2

    The classic version has the first bar closing down and the second closing up.

How to read it

  • More useful as confirmation that a level is being defended than as an independent reversal trigger.
  • Stronger after an extended decline than when the two lows occur early in a move.

Where it misleads

As with the tweezer top, two bars sharing a similar low is common enough by chance that the pattern needs the surrounding trend to mean anything.

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Updated 2026-08-27 · Educational reference, not financial advice.