Professional Support
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Definition
Also called Reverse Up-Thrust: a wide-spread down-bar closing on the highs, on high (but not ultra-high) volume, during an existing decline. May gap down at the open; the following bar ideally gaps up. It is a less extreme variant of stopping volume — a mini selling climax in which professional buying enters to slow or halt the down-move. Subsequent low-volume down-bars (no selling pressure) confirm that the strength is genuine.
Professional Support in plain English
Think of this as a 'mini' version of the big Selling Climax — a smaller rescue by professional buyers partway through a decline. You see a wide down-bar that closes right up on its highs, on high (but not record-breaking) volume; sometimes it even opens with a gap down and the next bar gaps back up. The move down gets slowed or stopped because pros stepped in to buy. To trust it, watch the bars that follow: if they drift down on LOW volume (no real selling pressure), that confirms the support was the real thing. (It's the exact same signal as 'Reverse Up-Thrust' — two names for one pattern.)
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