Effectively, these are upthrusts in the wrong place.
If you see what looks like an upthrust like this (a VSA style upthrust), and price is just breaking out from a sideways range, or is already in an uptrend.
And there is no weakness in the immediate background, and there is no downside follow through in response to the upthrust.
Then although they might 'look' like an upthrust, if they don't respond like one, then they are not upthrusts.
Remember, an upthrust is a confirming indicator of previous weakness, except if they have really serious volume themselves, where they can then be the actual weakness themselves. Either way, if there is not any previous weakness to confirm, then wait to if price moves lower in response. If price just tests and moves higher, or moves higher without testing, then it can't be an upthrust, even if it looks like one.
I like to think of these type of bars as 'absorption bars' (I have written about them quite a few times in the past). They appear to have the dual purpose of absorbing some of the potential supply waiting above the current price (effectively clearing a path higher), and he poor close helps to flip out some of the short term and momentum traders that are hanging around and will sell into a mark up.
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