Here are Steve Nison's criterias on how to recognize a hammer:
1. The real body is at the upper end of a trading range. As we agreed, the worker is trapped into a channel, we don't have a trend
2. A long lower shadow should be twice the height of the real body. In our case, the real body is bigger than the shadow
Again, the position of the candle, the shadow didn't test any important support level (1.4715)
As i said, i'm @ page 76 so i might be wrong with this