The
shooting star pattern is a bearish reversal formation and it is all the
contrary of the hammer pattern. It is called a shooting star, because it leaves
behind a long upper shadow with a small real body at the bottom, which
resembles a shooting star or a comet. The pattern is bearish due to the fact
that the long upper shadow is showing us that the price was at some point at a
high level and then it comes back when the sellers or bears take control of the
market. The small real body at the bottom is showing us that the price has
closed very near to the level where it opened. The real body of the candle can
be of any color, what is important is that the price has come back very close
to the zone where it opened the session. When the shooting star pattern is
formed around an important resistance level, it has more probabilities of
confirming itself. In this case, we can see that on the daily chart the
shooting star candle is at the 200 day exponential moving average (blue line)
and if the next candle is bearish then that would mean that the bears are still
in control of the market and the price of the GBP/JPY may drop. In case of a
bearish bounce from the current level, the 139.00 level may act as a support.
To the upside, the most important levels that could act as resistance are the
143.00 level, the 145.00 level, or the 148.00 level.

The daily bar did close as a shooting star.
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