Candlesticks
Continuation patterns: when a pause is not a reversal
Inside bars, flags and pennants. How to tell a trend catching its breath from a trend running out of it — and why the two look similar for the first few candles.
6 min read
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Chart patterns
Recognisable multi-candle formations and what they measure.
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Candlesticks
Candlestick reversal patterns that are worth knowing
Pin bars, engulfing candles and the two-bar reversal. Four patterns that carry real information — and the level context without which none of them mean anything.
7 min read
Chart patterns
Head and shoulders, double tops and double bottoms
The reversal patterns everyone knows, explained through the structure that actually produces them — and the neckline that decides whether they mean anything.
7 min read
Chart patterns
Measuring moves: turning a pattern into a target
A setup without a target is half a trade. How the measured move works, why targets must exist before entry, and what to do when the projection is unreachable.
6 min read
Chart patterns
Triangles, wedges and rectangles: patterns of compression
Four shapes that all describe the same thing — a market narrowing toward a decision. What each one's slope tells you, and why the breakout direction is not as predetermined as textbooks suggest.
6 min read