Chart patterns
Every classic chart pattern explained the way a trader would: the structure, whose orders make the shape, the trade plan — and the fakeout that hunts retail.
28 patterns · 3 groups · Pattern scanner · the vocabulary is in the glossary
Reversal Patterns
8 patterns
- Double Bottom
- Everyone's grandmother knows the W means up — which is exactly why your stop under the second low is on somebody's shopping list.
- Double Top
- Price knocked on the same ceiling twice, nobody answered — and the second knock usually wicks a bit higher just to collect the shorts before the drop.
- Head and Shoulders
- Three pushes up, the middle one was the exit pump, and now everyone's staring at the same neckline waiting for someone else to sell first.
- Inverse Head and Shoulders
- The market dug three holes, kept the middle one deepest, and now the whole timeline is bidding the same neckline like it owes them money.
- Rounding Bottom
- The most boring chart on your watchlist might be quietly loading a move — or it might just be boring, which is the part the saucer influencers skip.
- Triple Bottom
- The floor held three times, so naturally everyone's long with stops in the same puddle underneath it — you can guess what happens to puddles.
- Triple Top
- Three taps on the same ceiling and half the timeline is short — the other half is just waiting to buy their stops off them.
- V-Reversal
- Everyone's got a story about buying the exact bottom of the V — funny how nobody's got the fill screenshot.
Continuation Patterns
10 patterns
- Ascending Triangle
- Buyers keep head-butting the same ceiling — the bet is the ceiling cracks before their skulls do.
- Bear Flag
- That polite little bounce after a dump — the market holding the door open just so it can slam it on the dip buyers.
- Bull Flag
- Price sprints, catches its breath, and the whole market bets on a second sprint — which is exactly why the start line gets raided first.
- Cup and Handle
- A U-shaped round trip back to the scene of the crime, with one last shakeout at the rim before the actual move.
- Descending Triangle
- The floor's been stomped on so many times that everyone downstairs already has a finger on the sell button — and the market knows it.
- Falling Wedge
- Sellers are still winning, but every punch lands softer — the bet is they punch themselves out before you run out of patience.
- Pennant
- A flag that shrank in the wash — same promise, smaller triangle, and a coil this tight gets shoved around for fun.
- Price Channel
- Two parallel lines on a chart and suddenly half the market is convinced price owes them a bounce at the bottom one.
- Rising Wedge
- Price climbing a ladder that narrows to a point — looks impressive right up until the moment it very much doesn't.
- Symmetrical Triangle
- The market shrugging with both shoulders — everyone's waiting for everyone else to blink, and the guy with size gets to choose the direction.
Candlestick Patterns
10 patterns
- Bearish Engulfing
- One red candle swallows the green one, and every late long is suddenly checking where their stop is.
- Bullish Engulfing
- One big green candle eats yesterday's red one, and suddenly everyone's a bottom-caller.
- Doji
- A doji is the market shrugging, and you can't trade a shrug.
- Evening Star
- The candle where someone hands their bags to the last guy still bidding the top.
- Hammer
- The candle where someone dumped their whole bag and the bids ate every coin of it.
- Morning Star
- Sellers threw their best punch at the lows, gassed out, and buyers walked them straight backwards.
- Shooting Star
- Price popped up to collect everyone's breakout orders, said thanks, and left.
- Three Black Crows
- Three red candles marching lower usually means the distribution finished a while ago and you're just now noticing.
- Three White Soldiers
- Three green candles in a row means the trend just started — or you're about to be its exit liquidity.
- Tweezer Tops and Bottoms
- Two wicks kissing the same price is the market showing you exactly where everyone's stops are parked.
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