What is Harami Cross?
Harami Cross is a candlestick-chart term used to describe a particular relationship between one or more open-high-low-close bars. Its value is in naming a visible price structure consistently so it can be compared with trend, range and surrounding context.
Harami Cross matters because it gives analysts a consistent way to discuss comparing consecutive price bars. The relationship between two adjacent candles can reveal a change in direction, range, gap or control between buyers and sellers.
How to read Harami Cross
Read Harami Cross relative to the preceding trend, nearby support or resistance, the size of surrounding candles and any gap or volume information. The same formation can mean very little when it appears in random sideways noise.
What Harami Cross does not tell you
A crossing event is sensitive to lookback choices and can reverse quickly in sideways markets. Pattern frequency and apparent success can change with instrument, timeframe, volatility regime and the way gaps or sessions are handled.
Use in bonds, rates and macro markets
In fixed-income analysis these formations are most directly applicable to liquid rates futures, bond ETFs and other continuously charted instruments.
Technical chart structures are context, not certainty. BondStats does not present a candlestick, drawing tool, indicator reading or chart pattern as a standalone investment recommendation. Where a concept depends on discretionary anchors or parameter choices, those choices should be made explicit.