I was mentored in the 70s by chartists, I was taught a down bar regardless of timeframe in an uptrend is just a retracement. In order to consider it to be bearish, trend has to be in a down trend. So all have different definitions, in todays' world we live in more colorful language and ideas are quicker as well, but many have pessimistic tone. Like we are closer to all time highs than mid 2008. If you support your claims of bearish cause of slope of monthly bars, that is long gone in February. Because of the huge range of the down bar, we are having inside bars and forming congestion, normally congestion leads to higher prices whereas tops much less likely. Tops are often blow offs and continue to go down. If a close below huge down bar happened, then I would say we in downtrend and being bearish.