A price-action term for a candle with one long wick (often around two-thirds or more of the whole range) and a small body at the other end. Hammers and shooting stars are pin bars in specific contexts.
How traders use it: The wick should poke through a level and the body close back on the original side. Invalidation is commonly placed beyond the wick tip.
Common mistake: Taking pin bars that do not reject anything meaningful, or whose wick is the stop for half the market.
Related: Hammer · Shooting star · Swing failure pattern (SFP) · Rejection
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