when attempting to trade the pattern the best results tend to come with trading it as a continuation pattern for example if looking to buy a stock it should be a bull market the stock should be trending higher when it forms the inside day and then the price should exit the pattern to the upside 
in the example above the trader could buy when the price moves above the top of the pattern which is the high of the first candle of the two bar pattern the inside day pattern does not have a profit target attached to it traders can utilize other methods to collect profits such as a trailing stop loss risk reward ratio an indicator or moving average or looking for other candlestick patterns to signal an exit example of an inside daythe following chart shows multiple inside days in bank of america corporation stock this shows how common the pattern can be not all inside days result in a significant price move following the pattern image by sabrina jiang investopedia 2021the first two patterns occur during a price rise the price then breaks above the pattern and continues to the upside ideally this is the structure desired for a long trade for the inside days that follow some are preceded by a price advance or decline while others occur when the price is moving predominately sideways traders could have avoided some of the poor signals by only taking a trade if the breakout occurs in the same direction as the price direction that preceded the two day pattern 