What is the three inside up pattern?
The three inside up is a bullish candlestick pattern. A bullish harami followed by a third candle closing above the pattern, confirming the reversal.
How does the three inside up form?
A bullish harami consists of a long red bar followed by a small bar inside it. A third bar then closes above the first bar's open.
How do you confirm a three inside up?
The third bar's close above the harami is exactly the confirmation the plain harami lacks. That close is the pattern.
When does the three inside up fail?
It fails when the third bar closes only just above; a marginal confirmation is easily undone by the next bar.
No chart pattern works every time. The examples on this page were chosen because they show the pattern clearly, and in real markets patterns fail often.
Practice on real charts
3 real examples of the three inside up, cut off where the pattern completed. Make your call, then see what happened.
The shaded area is a three inside up. Where did price go next?
