Candlestick formation · Bearish
What is it, in one line
Three green bodies, each smaller than the last.
Bearish · 3 candles · verdict: rule and thresholds below
Three green bodies, each smaller than the last. The engine checks the formation as an executable condition over open, high, low and close, with a trend filter applied before the count is kept.
Method
Three consecutive up candles, each closing higher than the last, but with each body smaller than the one before and the upper wicks lengthening. The advance continues while visibly running out of force.
The traditional claim
Traditionally read as a stalling rally — the same three-up-candle shape as three white soldiers, but weakening rather than strengthening.
How this detection is wrong
Three white soldiers and advance block are the same three up candles separated only by whether the bodies grow or shrink. A set of three rising candles will often satisfy neither.
Published so the count can be reproduced. Every figure below is a parameter of the rule, not a preference: change one and the occurrence count changes with it.
| Parameter | Meaning | Default |
|---|---|---|
| trendPeriod | bars of prior trend inspected | 5 |
| minPriorSlope | prior slope must be above | 1 |
| minFirstBodyAtr | first body, at least, in ATR | 0.5 |
| atrPeriod | bars of ATR used to size everything below | 14 |
These share enough geometry that a detector can return more than one of them on the same bar. The engine reports every match rather than picking a winner.
Every pair on the site that can be mistaken for another, and what separates each: the look-alikes index.
Three consecutive up candles, each closing higher than the last, but with each body smaller than the one before and the upper wicks lengthening. The advance continues while visibly running out of force. The detector also requires a prior uptrend, so the same shape in the wrong context is not counted.
It is read as bearish. Traditionally read as a stalling rally — the same three-up-candle shape as three white soldiers, but weakening rather than strengthening.
Three white soldiers and advance block are the same three up candles separated only by whether the bodies grow or shrink. A set of three rising candles will often satisfy neither.
As an executable rule over open, high, low and close, with 4 named parameters — including bars of prior trend inspected 5, prior slope must be above 1, first body, at least, in ATR 0.5 — all published on this page so the count can be reproduced. Strict and loose variants are defined as well, so the sensitivity of the count to those thresholds is visible rather than assumed.
Measurement pending re-run
No hit rate is published here yet. The run that would supply one was computed on engine ca6d9e36c81c; the engine is now cfb08765de7c. Its candlestick rows included the still-forming bar, and it predates the chart formations entirely, so those figures have been withdrawn rather than published with a caveat. The definition above is unaffected: it is what the detector tests, and no re-run changes it.