Pattern Lab

Every chart here is fictional teaching data. Patterns describe possibilities, not certainties.

Support and resistance

Market structure
Neutral

Two horizontal zones that price keeps bouncing between, each tested more than once.

Higher highs and lower lows

Market structure
Context-dependent

A staircase of swing highs and swing lows, each one above the last (or below, in a downtrend).

Trendlines

Market structure
Context-dependent

A sloped line drawn through two or more swing lows (or highs) that price respects for a while.

Double top

Reversal patterns
Bearish

Two pushes into roughly the same high, separated by a pullback that forms a neckline.

Double bottom

Reversal patterns
Bullish

Two tests of a similar low with a bounce in between, then a push through that bounce's high.

Head and shoulders

Reversal patterns
Bearish

A high, a higher high, then a lower high — with a roughly horizontal neckline under them.

Triangles

Continuation patterns
Context-dependent

Converging boundaries — highs and lows compressing into a point.

Flags and pennants

Continuation patterns
Context-dependent

A sharp impulse, then an orderly drift against it in a tight channel (flag) or convergence (pennant).

Rising and falling wedges

Reversal patterns
Context-dependent

Price grinds higher (or lower) in a narrowing slope, with momentum visibly shrinking.

Doji

Candlestick basics
Neutral

A candle whose close is nearly identical to its open, with wicks on both sides.

Hammer

Candlestick basics
Bullish

A small body near the top of the candle with a long lower wick, appearing after a decline.

Shooting star

Candlestick basics
Bearish

A small body near the low with a long upper wick, appearing after an advance.

Bullish and bearish engulfing

Candlestick basics
Context-dependent

A candle whose body completely covers the previous candle's body, in the opposite direction.

Breakout retests

Breakouts and fakeouts
Context-dependent

Price breaks a level, pulls back to it, holds, then continues.

Liquidity sweeps

Breakouts and fakeouts
Context-dependent

A fast spike through an obvious level, followed by an immediate return and reversal.

Fake breakouts

Breakouts and fakeouts
Context-dependent

A break above the range that fails to hold, closing back inside within a candle or two.

Volume confirmation

Volume confirmation
Neutral

Volume expanding on the move that matters and contracting during pauses.