The Hanging Man is a bearish single-candlestick reversal pattern that forms after an uptrend: it has a small real body near the top of the range and a long lower shadow at least twice the size of the body, with little or no upper shadow. It looks like a Hammer, but at a top it shows that sellers were able to push the price sharply lower during the session, and traders wait for a lower close on the next bar to confirm the reversal.
