These are the eleven formations our detector actually recognises — there are no others in the data, and every card above is one of these. The percentage next to each name is a fixed reliability rating for that pattern type, set by us from the technical-analysis literature on how often each formation follows through: it describes the formation, not this occurrence, and it is not a measurement made on this site or on our own results. Detection runs on H1, H4 and daily candles, and only on closed bars.
Daily (D1) candles follow the New York session close, 17:00 New York, the same daily convention as MetaTrader charts. Hourly and four-hour candles are on UTC clock boundaries.
Bullish Patterns
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Three White Soldiers 78%
Three consecutive rising candles, each closing above the last, with bodies filling more than half of their range. Sustained buying rather than a single spike.
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Double Bottom 76%
Two lows at the same price (within 0.15%), separated by at least five bars and with a rebound of at least 0.3% between them. Without that rebound two lows are just a flat stretch, not a pattern. Detected when the second low forms: we do not wait for the neckline break, so treat it as a formation in progress.
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Morning Star 74%
A long down candle, then a small indecisive body, then a strong up candle closing back above the midpoint of the first. A three-bar bottom.
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Bullish Engulfing 63%
An up candle whose body completely covers the previous down body. The covered candle must have a real body: engulfing a doji is not an engulfing.
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Hammer 60%
A long lower wick, at least twice the body, with little or no upper wick, appearing after a decline. Sellers pushed price down and lost it back.
Bearish Patterns
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Three Black Crows 78%
Three consecutive falling candles, each closing below the last, with substantial bodies. The mirror image of Three White Soldiers.
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Double Top 75%
Two highs at the same price (within 0.15%), at least five bars apart and with a pullback of at least 0.3% between them. Detected when the second high forms, before any neckline break: a formation in progress, not a confirmed one.
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Evening Star 71%
A long up candle, a small indecisive body, then a strong down candle closing back below the midpoint of the first.
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Bearish Engulfing 66%
A down candle whose body completely covers the previous up body, and that previous body must be a real one.
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Shooting Star 59%
A long upper wick, at least twice the body, with little or no lower wick, appearing after an advance.
Neutral Patterns
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Doji 50%
A candle whose body is under 10% of its range: buyers and sellers finished where they started. It signals indecision, not a direction — which is why our signal engine lists it but does not let it vote.
Chart formations that need a drawn trendline — head and shoulders, triangles, wedges, flags, cup and handle — are not detected here. We would rather list nothing than list a pattern we do not compute.
