Candlestick Pattern Gallery
Forty-two candlestick patterns — bullish, bearish, and neutral — covering essentially every commonly-named pattern in classical candlestick analysis, each with shape, signal, typical reliability, and whether a confirmation candle is worth waiting for. Browse the grid or swipe through one at a time.
How Many Candles Do You Actually Need?
More confirming signals stacked together generally beat any single pattern on its own — but "more" only helps up to a point, and each one costs you time and a worse entry price.
1 Signal Alone
A single candlestick pattern by itself, with nothing else backing it up. Fastest entry, lowest confidence — treat it as a hint, not a trade.
2 Signals Stacked
The pattern plus one piece of context — a key support/resistance level, a trendline, or the higher-timeframe trend agreeing with it. This is the everyday "good enough" bar most traders use.
3+ Signals Stacked
Pattern + level + trend + momentum all agreeing. Genuinely higher odds, but these setups are rare — waiting for perfection instead of "good enough" is its own common mistake.
If the Trade Goes Wrong
Losses are a normal part of trading any of these patterns — what happens after a loss usually matters more than the loss itself.
Honor the Stop-Loss
Let it close the trade as planned. Moving a stop further away to "give it room" turns a small, defined loss into an unknown one.
Don't Average Down
Adding to a losing position to improve your average price increases risk exactly when the trade has already told you it's wrong.
Skip the Revenge Trade
Jumping straight into a new position to "win it back" is usually an emotional decision, not an analytical one — step away instead.
Reduce Size After a Drawdown
After two or three losses in a row, trim your risk per trade rather than keeping it constant — protecting what's left matters more than recovering fast.
Journal It, Then Move On
Write down what happened while it's fresh, review it later with a clear head, and treat the loss as data for improving the process — not a reason to chase it.