Candlestick patterns are the small, recurring shapes that one or a few candles make — the market's shortest-term tells about who is winning, buyers or sellers. The terminal recognises them for you and marks each one on the chart as it forms.
candlestick patterns labelled on the chart as they appear
How it works
Switch pattern detection on from the toolbar. The recogniser scans the candles on screen and, the moment a pattern completes on a closing bar, draws a marker on it with the pattern's name. It's pure math on the chart's own price data — nothing is fetched, and nothing repaints after the bar closes.
The library
Patterns are grouped by how many candles form them, and each is tagged bullish or bearish:
- Single-candle — Doji, Hammer, Hanging Man, Shooting Star, Marubozu, Spinning Top.
- Two-candle — Engulfing, Harami, Piercing Line, Dark Cloud Cover, Tweezer Top / Bottom.
- Three-candle — Morning Star, Evening Star, Three White Soldiers, Three Black Crows, Three Inside / Outside.
- Longer formations — four- and five-candle patterns such as Rising / Falling Three Methods and the Three-Line Strike.
How reliable is a pattern?
Every detected pattern carries two ratings, shown side by side, so you can tell the strong ones from the ones that only look good:
- Historical reliability — from Thomas Bulkowski's published research: the pattern's success rate and its overall rank among 100+ patterns (1 = best), with a flag for whether the figure is cross-verified across sources.
- Live confidence — a win-rate computed from how the pattern has actually behaved on recent bars, so you see today's edge, not just the textbook one.
A high textbook rank that is also holding up live is a far stronger cue than one that is fading.
detected pattern with its reliability rank and live-confidence badges
Controls
- Toggle — one button on the toolbar turns detection on and off.
- Categories & presets — show only the families you trade, or load a ready-made preset instead of ticking each pattern.
- Active panel — markers attach to the chart you're focused on in a multi-chart layout.
- Feeds your signals — the same patterns drive the market scanner and alerts, so you can be pinged the moment one forms.
pattern settings dialog with categories and presets
Free — sign in to switch it on.
A pattern is a prompt to look closer, not a trade on its own. Read it with the trend and the level it forms at.