What is the three white soldiers pattern?
The three white soldiers is a bullish candlestick pattern. Three long green candles in a row, each opening inside the last body and closing near its high.
How does the three white soldiers form?
Three long green bars in a row, each opening inside the previous body and closing near its own high.
How do you confirm a three white soldiers?
Steady closes near the highs, with small upper shadows, are what separate this from a spike. The advance should look deliberate rather than urgent.
When does the three white soldiers fail?
After an extended run the third bar often marks exhaustion rather than strength. The same shape appears at the end of moves as at the start.
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 white soldiers, cut off where the pattern completed. Make your call, then see what happened.
The shaded area is a three white soldiers. Where did price go next?
