Marubozu Candles - Market Structure

Understand how special Marubozu candles indicate shifts in market control and short-term moves, based on strong buying or selling pressure.

Published · Updated · Methodology: Price Action

Part of: Market Structure

  • Methodology: Price Action
  • Content type: educational

Indicators used

  • Marubozu Candles

Source video

Decoded from: Speical marubozu candles - Game changer in market structure by Jayce PHAM trader - NCI's Market structure — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:00 - Introduction to Marubozu candles
  • 0:20 - Description of strong selling and buying pressure
  • 0:45 - Three standards to define the special marubozu candle
  • 1:00 - First standard: long tail below
  • 1:05 - Second standard: close price near highest high
  • 1:10 - Third standard: body from 50% total length
  • 1:20 - Interpretation of the candle's meaning

Strategy overview

Market structure is the framework that tells you which side of the market currently holds control, read through the sequence of highs and lows. This entry works one level below that: instead of another way to map swings, it isolates a single candle type — what the channel calls the "special" marubozu — and treats it as the footprint that a given leg of structure was driven by genuine pressure rather than drift.

The angle comes from Jayce PHAM trader – NCI's Market structure, and the source video's framing is deliberately narrow. A textbook marubozu is a candle with a full body and negligible wicks, open at one extreme and close at the other. The video does not accept that definition as-is: it lays out three explicit standards for qualification, covering the tail left behind, where the close sits relative to the candle's extreme, and how much of the total range the body has to occupy. The consequence is that a candle with a visible tail can still earn the label, provided the proportions hold — classification by measurement rather than by eye.

Worth knowing before you watch: this is a compressed, definitional clip, and its running time goes almost entirely to identifying the candle, not to trading it. No entry, exit or risk logic was extracted for this entry, so what the video offers is vocabulary — a filter you would layer onto whatever structure read you already run, with confirmation and risk rules still yours to define and test.

Topics

marubozu candles · market structure · price action · trading strategy · candle patterns · technical analysis · tradingview strategy · trading education · candlestick strategy · buy pressure · sell pressure

Frequently asked questions

What is a marubozu candle?

A marubozu is a candle whose body spans almost the entire range, with little or no wick at either end — it opens near one extreme and closes near the other, indicating that one side of the market dominated the whole period without meaningful pushback.

What makes the "special" marubozu in this video different from a standard one?

Rather than requiring an almost wick-free candle, the video sets out three proportional standards — involving the tail, the position of the close relative to the candle's extreme, and how much of the total range the body occupies. A candle with a visible tail can still qualify if those proportions are met, which widens the filter compared with the textbook definition.

How do marubozu candles relate to market structure?

Market structure tells you which side is in control by tracking the sequence of highs and lows; a marubozu-type candle is used as candle-level evidence about the conviction behind the move that produced a given leg or break. It is a quality check on a structure read, not a replacement for one.

Does this video give entry and exit rules?

No — it is a short classification video focused on how to identify the candle, not on where to enter, place stops or take profit. Anyone using the idea would need to add their own confirmation and risk rules, then backtest the result on historical data before trading it.

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