Shape contrast then breakout confirmation in Adam and Eve double bottoms

A two-trough sketch, not a finished call

An Adam and Eve double bottom is a two-trough reversal sketch inside a downtrend. The first low is an Adam bottom: a narrow, pointed trough, often marked by a sharp one-session downward spike. The second is an Eve bottom: a wider, more rounded or flat trough that may contain several minor lows. The two shapes do not look alike.

Unlike troughs come first

Twin troughs are classed as Adam then Eve only when the first low is narrow and pointed, the second is wider, rounded, or flat, and the two shapes look distinctly unlike each other. Volume is described as usually heaviest on the Adam low rather than the Eve low. An Eve trough may be built from several nearby minor lows.

The intervening rally must already exist

The setup is placed in a downtrend, with the two lows several weeks apart, an intervening rally of at least 10 percent, and bottoms that sit close in price. Those pieces have to be visible before the pair is even a candidate.

Nested structures still need two close lows

An Eve trough can sit inside a larger head-and-shoulders or cup-with-handle structure without dropping the double-bottom reading if the two main lows remain close in price.

Confirmation is a close through the intervening high

Breakout confirmation is a close above the highest high between the two bottoms. That close is treated as the primary test that the twin-bottom sketch is complete. Price is described as often continuing lower before that close, so unconfirmed twin lows are not treated as a completed pattern.

How nearby resistance is judged

Overhead resistance is any prior high or low, trendline, moving average, round number, earlier pattern, or sideways block that can stall an advance after confirmation. A horizontal consolidation region is a sideways price block located between the start of the downtrend and the pattern high, used when judging whether overhead supply is likely to matter. A nearby block that forms after that downtrend has already begun is treated as weaker resistance that a breakout may pass through.

A shelf trigger, a height-added bound, and invalidation

A support shelf is a flat stretch along the Eve trough that can be read as nearby support. In an untested variant, a close above that shelf is used as an earlier trigger in place of a close through the intervening high. The measure rule adds the distance from the lower trough to the intervening high onto that high and is framed as a minimum expected advance rather than a certainty. Invalidation is a break of nearby support or a drop through the lower of the two bottoms.