“Bearish Harami,” Arjun said seriously, standing with his hands on his stomach, mimicking Shinchan’s lazy, slouching posture. “Indecision in the market. Tomorrow is going to be volatile.”
“What are you doing?” she asked.
And every time he saw a “Hammer” pattern, he smiled, poured himself a glass of chocolate milk, and took the trade.
“That’s a buy signal,” Arjun whispered. And every time he saw a “Hammer” pattern,
He entered a small long position. The market reversed twenty minutes later. He booked a 2% gain.
By the end of the week, he was a convert. The “Double Bottom” was Shinchan being scolded by his mother, then immediately doing the same thing again. The “Rising Wedge” was Shinchan trying to climb a wall to peek into the neighbor’s yard—tightening, straining, then collapsing.
He kept watching. The “Bullish Engulfing” pattern was demonstrated by Shinchan performing his infamous “Action Kamen” pose—chest puffed, fists on hips, legs wide, ready to leap forward and conquer. The market reversed twenty minutes later
She walked back to bed.
Instead, he saw Shinchan, slumped over, denied his chocolate bar.
Arjun hated his job. Not the trading part—that was fine. He hated the studying . For six months, he had been trying to force-feed himself Thomas Meyers’ The Technical Analysis Course . The PDF sat on his desktop like a digital brick: 347 pages of candlestick patterns, support-resistance levels, and moving average convergence divergence. cross-legged on the floor
He even framed a print of Shinchan doing the “Shooting Star” pose above his new home trading desk. Underneath, a plaque read: “False breakout. Get back up.”
A crude, hand-drawn animation popped up. It was Shinchan Nohara—the rude, mischievous five-year-old from the anime. Shinchan was standing with his legs wide, one arm drooping, his head tilted back in exaggerated despair. The caption read: “Hammer Pattern: Long lower wick, small body at the top. Shinchan’s ‘Denied Chocolate’ slump.”
The next morning, he opened his trading terminal. The S&P 500 futures were choppy. He saw a small red candle with a long bottom wick. His brain didn’t think, “A hammer indicates a potential reversal after a downtrend.”
One rainy Tuesday, desperate for a miracle, he found a strange torrent: “Meyers Course - Full Video Companion + Bonus (Shinchan Poses).” He assumed the “bonus” was a typo. He downloaded it anyway.
He made more money in that week than in the previous month. His girlfriend found him at 2 AM, cross-legged on the floor, striking poses in his underwear.