Every pattern is a crowd changing its mind.

A sharp run up, then a lazy drift down on thin volume. Buyers are resting, not leaving.

Buy the break above the flag. Target is the height of the pole, added to the breakout.

The mirror. A hard drop, then a hopeful bounce that never gets anywhere. Sellers are reloading.

Sell the break below the flag. Bounces into the top of the channel are the trap.

Three pushes up, the middle one highest. Each rally gets weaker. The trend is exhausted.

Confirmed only when price closes below the neckline. Target: head height, projected down.

Three dips, the middle one deepest. Sellers tried three times and ran out. Bottoms are a process.

Buy the close above the neckline. A retest of the neckline from above is the safer entry.

Two visits to the same ceiling, twice rejected. The letter M. Nobody wants to pay more.

Confirm on a break below the middle low. Many fail: the second top must not exceed the first.

Two visits to the same floor, twice held. The letter W. Someone is buying every dip here.

Buy the break above the middle high. Target: the distance from floor to that high.

A flat ceiling and rising floors. Buyers step in higher each time. Pressure builds under a lid.

The lid usually breaks. Buy the close above resistance; don’t front-run it.

A rounded bottom that takes its time, then a short pullback. Patience, then a small hesitation.

Buy the break above the rim. Handle should be shallow; a deep handle is a different pattern.

Lower highs and higher lows squeezing to a point. Volatility is being compressed. Direction unknown.

Don’t guess. Trade the break, whichever way it comes, with volume.

Higher highs, but each one barely higher. Momentum shrinking while price still climbs. A tired uptrend.

Break below the lower line is the signal. Rising wedges after a long rally usually resolve down.

A long lower wick after a decline. Price was hammered down and bought back before the close.

Needs a down move before it. Confirm with the next candle closing above the hammer.

A long upper wick after a decline. Buyers tested higher and were pushed back, but they showed up.

Weaker than a hammer. Only meaningful if the next candle is green and closes above it.

The inverted hammer’s evil twin, at the top of a rally. Buyers rushed in and got sold into.

Needs an uptrend before it. Small body, wick at least twice the body. Confirm with a red close.

Looks like a hammer, but at the top. That lower wick says sellers can push it far now.

Weak alone. Treat it as a warning; act on a close below its low.

Open equals close. The market argued all day and nobody won. Indecision after a trend.

By itself, nothing. After a strong move, it says the move is pausing. Wait for the next candle.

A green candle that swallows the red one before it. Buyers reversed the whole previous day.

Stronger with volume and at a support level. Stop goes below the engulfing candle’s low.

A red candle that swallows the green before it. Whatever buyers built yesterday, gone.

Stronger at resistance. Stop goes above the engulfing candle’s high.

Big red, tiny pause, big green. Three candles that say the sellers blinked.

The third candle should close past the midpoint of the first. Then it counts.

Big green, tiny pause, big red. The top of a move, marked with a small, quiet candle.

Mirror of the morning star. Third candle closes below the first’s midpoint to confirm.

Three full green candles, each opening inside the last and closing higher. Steady, not frantic.

After a downtrend it’s a reversal. After a long uptrend, it’s often exhaustion.