# Marubozu candlestick

> A marubozu is a candle with almost no wicks — the session opened at one extreme and closed at the other, meaning one side controlled the tape from the first print to the last.

Canonical: https://patternsradar.com/learn/marubozu

The geometry is all body: open at or near one end of the range, close at or near the other, and essentially no shadow on either side. There was no tug-of-war to record — one side took the session at the open and never gave it back. A green marubozu is buyers in control for every trade of the day; a red one is the same session run by sellers. No other single candle makes as unambiguous a claim about who owned the tape.

What the claim is worth depends on where it lands and who was present. A marubozu on thin volume is a quiet market drifting one way; the same bar on heavy volume is conviction with a crowd behind it, and at a level the market watches it often marks the day something changed. The site's marubozu-on-volume scan applies exactly that discipline: pattern is marubozu within 2 bars with relative volume above 1, keeping it to sessions where participation matched the control.

The caveat is exhaustion. Total control of one session says nothing about the next, and a marubozu printed late in an extended move is as likely to be the crescendo as the beginning — the strongest-looking bars cluster at both ends of trends. Direction of the body, position in the move, and volume all change the odds, and the hit-rate replay on the scan pages is how you measure those odds instead of assuming them.

## In Sift

Written as `pattern is marubozu`. A working scan — stocks printing a full-body candle on above-average volume:

```sift
where pattern is marubozu and rel_volume > 1.2
```

0 of the 500 most-traded NSE stocks match today, as of 2026-08-21.

## Scans that use it

- [Marubozu on volume](https://patternsradar.com/screener/marubozu-conviction.md): A bar with almost no wicks on above-average volume — one side held the session from open to close.

## Common questions

### What does a marubozu candle indicate?

Total one-sided control of a single session: the open and close sit at opposite extremes of the range, with no wick to show the other side ever pushed back. A green marubozu means buyers ran the whole day, a red one means sellers did. It measures conviction within the session, not what follows it.

### Is a bullish marubozu a buy signal?

Not by itself. It says buyers dominated one session; whether that starts a move or ends one depends on where it printed. Early in a base or through a watched level, it often carries follow-through; deep into an extended run it can be the exhaustion bar. Volume and location decide, and the replay on the scan pages lets you test both readings.