Engineering Alpha

Engineering Alpha

The Hidden Shovel Pattern: A Candlestick Signal Built Inside RSI

Cool Market Patterns Explained

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Sofien Kaabar, CFA
Jun 03, 2026
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Most traders use RSI in a simple way.

If RSI is oversold, they look for a buy.
If RSI is overbought, they look for a sell.

The Hidden Shovel Pattern takes a different approach.

Instead of looking only at the closing RSI value, it builds a kind of hidden candlestick inside the RSI. It does this by calculating RSI on the candle’s open, high, low, and close.

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