Candlestick formation · Bearish
What is it, in one line
Two long green bodies, then a small one gapping up.
Bearish · 3 candles · verdict: rule and thresholds below
Two long green bodies, then a small one gapping up. 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 up candles, each closing higher, where the third body is a fraction of the second. The advance did not stop, it ran out of energy — which is what distinguishes it from three white soldiers.
The traditional claim
Traditionally read as deliberation before a top.
How this detection is wrong
Three white soldiers, advance block and stalled pattern are the same three rising candles graded by how the bodies behave: growing, shrinking gradually, or collapsing on the third. Comparing their counts on the same data is the cleanest available test of whether the distinctions carry information.
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 |
| maxThirdBodyRatio | third body, at most, relative to the first | 0.3 |
| 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 up candles, each closing higher, where the third body is a fraction of the second. The advance did not stop, it ran out of energy — which is what distinguishes it from three white soldiers. 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 deliberation before a top.
Three white soldiers, advance block and stalled pattern are the same three rising candles graded by how the bodies behave: growing, shrinking gradually, or collapsing on the third. Comparing their counts on the same data is the cleanest available test of whether the distinctions carry information.
As an executable rule over open, high, low and close, with 5 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.