Candlestick Patterns
Single-bar and multi-bar shapes read from the open, high, low, and close. 30 topics.
Doji
A candle whose open and close are almost the same, so the body is only a line.
Dragonfly Doji
A doji with a long lower wick and almost no upper wick. Price sold off and came back to the open.
Gravestone Doji
A doji with a long upper wick and almost no lower wick. Price rallied and finished back at the open.
Long-Legged Doji
A doji with long wicks on both sides. The period ranged widely and closed where it opened.
Spinning Top
A small real body with wicks on both sides. The period moved, then finished near where it started.
Marubozu
A candle with a full body and little or no wick. The period closed at its extreme.
Hammer
A small body at the top of the range with a long lower wick, after a decline.
Inverted Hammer
A small body at the bottom of the range with a long upper wick, after a decline.
Hanging Man
A hammer-shaped candle after an advance. The long lower wick is a warning, not a buy.
Shooting Star
A small body at the low of the range with a long upper wick, after an advance.
Bullish Engulfing
A down candle followed by an up candle whose body covers the prior body.
Bearish Engulfing
An up candle followed by a down candle whose body covers the prior body.
Piercing Pattern
A down candle followed by an up candle that closes above the midpoint of the down candle's body.
Dark Cloud Cover
An up candle followed by a down candle that closes below the midpoint of the up candle's body.
Morning Star
A three-candle bullish reversal: a long down candle, a small-bodied pause, then a strong up candle.
Evening Star
A three-candle bearish reversal: a long up candle, a small-bodied pause, then a strong down candle.
Three White Soldiers
Three bullish candles in a row, each closing higher, with opens inside the prior body.
Three Black Crows
Three bearish candles in a row, each closing lower, with opens inside the prior body.
Harami Pattern
A large candle followed by a smaller candle whose body sits inside the prior body.
Harami Cross
A harami whose second candle is a doji.
Tweezer Top
Two or more candles that share the same high after an advance.
Tweezer Bottom
Two or more candles that share the same low after a decline.
Rising Three Methods
A long bullish candle, a pause of small candles that stay inside it, then another bullish candle in the direction of the trend.
Falling Three Methods
A long bearish candle, a pause of small candles inside it, then another bearish candle resuming the decline.
Three Inside Up
A bullish harami confirmed by a third candle that closes above the first candle's high.
Three Inside Down
A bearish harami confirmed by a third candle that closes below the first candle's low.
Three Outside Up
A bullish engulfing confirmed by a third candle that closes higher.
Three Outside Down
A bearish engulfing confirmed by a third candle that closes lower.
Inside Bar
A bar whose high and low sit inside the prior bar's high and low.
Outside Bar
A bar whose high and low both exceed the prior bar's high and low.