The pattern library

Chart patterns and candlestick patterns, all 49 explained.

Every pattern in Chartle, drawn from a real chart rather than a textbook sketch. Each page covers how the pattern forms, what to check before trusting it, when it tends to fail, and a few real examples to practice on.

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Reversal patterns 6

Larger shapes that form as a trend runs out of steam.

Continuation patterns 9

Pauses inside a trend that often resolve in the trend's direction.

Breakout patterns 4

Price meeting a line it has respected before, and either holding or breaking it.

Bullish and bearish candlestick patterns

Bullish patterns tend to form before price rises, bearish patterns before it falls. None of them work every time, so each page covers when they fail.

The symmetrical triangle is neutral: it can break either way.

Candlestick patterns cheat sheet

All 49 candlestick and chart patterns on one page, with the one line worth remembering for each.

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Pattern	Type	Signal	Remember
Bearish Belt Hold	Candlestick	Bearish	An open-at-high candle shows distribution starting at the first trade.
Bearish Engulfing	Candlestick	Bearish	A bearish engulfing at a swing high is worth noticing, but like every pattern here, it fails more often than it works.
Bearish Harami	Candlestick	Bearish	Watch for a close below the harami to confirm the trend change.
Bearish Kicker	Candlestick	Bearish	A bearish kicker often follows news; the gap rarely fills quickly.
Bearish Marubozu	Candlestick	Bearish	A marubozu through a level shows the level was not defended at all.
Bullish Belt Hold	Candlestick	Bullish	An open-at-low candle shows urgency; the open itself is the level to watch.
Bullish Engulfing	Candlestick	Bullish	The bigger the engulfing body, the clearer the shift in control.
Bullish Harami	Candlestick	Bullish	The harami is a pause, not a turn. The confirmation candle is what matters.
Bullish Kicker	Candlestick	Bullish	The gap shows that sentiment changed between sessions, not during one.
Bullish Marubozu	Candlestick	Bullish	With no wicks, the candle shows that nobody defended the other side during the session.
Dark Cloud Cover	Candlestick	Bearish	The gap up that fails is what makes this different from an ordinary red day.
Dragonfly Doji	Candlestick	Bullish	The whole session's range was rejected. That is a lot of information in one bar.
Evening Doji Star	Candlestick	Bearish	A doji at the top is a warning; the red candle after it is the trigger.
Evening Star	Candlestick	Bearish	The deeper the third candle closes into the first, the cleaner the signal.
Gravestone Doji	Candlestick	Bearish	After an uptrend, a gravestone marks a rally that nobody was willing to hold.
Hammer	Candlestick	Bullish	The longer the lower wick relative to the body, the more decisive the rejection.
Hanging Man	Candlestick	Bearish	It has the same shape as a hammer, but the preceding trend changes its meaning.
Inverted Hammer	Candlestick	Bullish	It needs the next candle to confirm; alone it is only an attempt.
Morning Doji Star	Candlestick	Bullish	The doji marks the exhaustion; the green candle is the confirmation.
Morning Star	Candlestick	Bullish	The middle candle is the pause; the third is the answer.
Piercing Line	Candlestick	Bullish	Closing past the halfway mark is the whole point. Anything less is a weak bounce.
Shooting Star	Candlestick	Bearish	A shooting star into a known resistance level is where the shape means most.
Three Black Crows	Candlestick	Bearish	Three decisive closes near the lows say the selling is deliberate, not panic.
Three Inside Down	Candlestick	Bearish	The close below the first green body is the confirmation the harami was missing.
Three Inside Up	Candlestick	Bullish	The third candle's close above the first body is what separates this from a plain harami.
Three Outside Down	Candlestick	Bearish	Engulfing plus follow-through is a stronger read than either alone.
Three Outside Up	Candlestick	Bullish	The follow-through candle is what separates a signal from noise.
Three White Soldiers	Candlestick	Bullish	Steady closes near the highs show buying that is not in a hurry.
Tweezer Bottom	Candlestick	Bullish	A level defended twice in a row is a level worth marking.
Tweezer Top	Candlestick	Bearish	Matching highs mark where sellers are waiting. The level matters more than the candles.
Double Bottom	Reversal	Bullish	Two failures to break lower say sellers are spent; wait for the neckline to give way before believing it.
Double Top	Reversal	Bearish	The pattern only completes on a close below the neckline. Two peaks alone are just a range.
Head and Shoulders	Reversal	Bearish	The head makes a higher high, but the shoulders do not. This shows momentum building and then fading.
Inverse Head and Shoulders	Reversal	Bullish	A right shoulder that stays well above the head shows sellers running out of conviction.
Triple Bottom	Reversal	Bullish	The more times a level holds, the more violent the break when it finally goes.
Triple Top	Reversal	Bearish	Each retest that fails leaves fewer buyers willing to try again.
Ascending Triangle	Continuation	Bullish	Buyers paying up sooner every time is what eventually cracks the ceiling.
Bear Flag	Continuation	Bearish	A bounce that cannot reclaim much of the drop is a rest, not a recovery.
Bull Flag	Continuation	Bullish	A flag is a pause, not a reversal. The giveaway is how little ground price gives back.
Descending Triangle	Continuation	Bearish	The floor looks solid right up until the moment it isn't.
Downside Tasuki Gap	Continuation	Bearish	The bounce that cannot fill the gap tells you how little demand there is.
Falling Three Methods	Continuation	Bearish	A bounce that stays inside the red candle's range never really challenged it.
Rising Three Methods	Continuation	Bullish	The shallow pullback shows sellers too weak to reverse anything.
Symmetrical Triangle	Continuation	Neutral	This one takes its direction from the break, not from the shape. The triangle itself is neutral.
Upside Tasuki Gap	Continuation	Bullish	An unfilled gap is the thing to watch. While it holds, the trend has not been questioned.
Resistance Rejection	Breakout	Bearish	Rejection wicks at a known level mark where the sellers are waiting.
Support Bounce	Breakout	Bullish	Support holds only while buyers defend it. Watch whether they show up before the close.
Trendline Breakdown	Breakout	Bearish	The line that supported every dip becomes the ceiling on the way back up.
Trendline Breakout	Breakout	Bullish	The break has to be a close, not a wick. A touch through the line proves nothing.

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