Broadening Formation
Learn to identify and trade the broadening formation (megaphone pattern), a reversal signal marked by expanding price swings at market tops.
Explore 51 chart and candlestick patterns across reversals, continuations, price action, and Fibonacci-based structures. Use each pattern as a study framework—not a promise of what price must do next.
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Structures that can signal a shift in control after an established directional move.
Learn to identify and trade the broadening formation (megaphone pattern), a reversal signal marked by expanding price swings at market tops.
Learn to trade the inverse cup and handle bearish reversal pattern, including identification, entry rules, stop placement, target calculation, and journaling tips.
Learn to identify diamond top and bottom chart patterns, understand the two-phase formation, and trade reversals with precise entry, stop, and target rules.
Learn to identify and trade the falling wedge pattern with practical entry rules, targets, stop placement, and journaling tips.
Learn to identify and trade the inverse head and shoulders reversal pattern with entry rules, target calculation, stop placement, and journaling tips.
Island reversal uses two opposing unfilled gaps to flag a sharp trend reversal. Learn how to spot the setup, where to enter, and where to place stops.
Learn to identify and trade the megaphone pattern (broadening top), from swing-trading the range to playing the breakdown and journaling the result.
Learn to identify and trade outside bar patterns with a three-part filter system designed to separate higher-quality setups from random noise.
Learn the Quasimodo reversal pattern, a five-swing market structure that can trap late participants before price changes direction.
Learn to identify and trade the rising wedge pattern, a bearish structure with converging trendlines, defined entry rules, targets, and journaling prompts.
The rounding top is a long-term bearish reversal pattern that can signal a gradual shift from bullish to bearish market sentiment.
Learn how to identify and trade the triple bottom pattern, a bullish reversal structure with an approximately 87% breakout rate in the supplied reference.
Learn to identify and trade the V-bottom or spike bottom using volume-climax signals and reversal-candle criteria for more structured entries.
Learn to identify the five-phase Wyckoff accumulation schematic, an institutional base-building process that may precede a markup phase.
Consolidations and price structures traders use to study whether an existing trend may resume.
Learn to identify and trade the ascending triangle pattern with defined entry rules, target calculations, and journaling tips for a repeatable review process.
Learn how to identify and trade ascending, descending, and horizontal price channels with entry rules, invalidation points, and journaling prompts.
Learn to identify a dead cat bounce using volume divergence and Fibonacci retracements, with short-setup and trapped-position management considerations.
Learn to identify and trade the descending triangle pattern with breakdown entries, target projection, stop placement, and journaling tips.
Learn Elliott Wave Theory’s 5-3 fractal structure, the three hard counting rules, and how traders frame Wave 3 entries with Fibonacci levels.
Learn to identify and trade bull and bear flag patterns with entry rules, measured targets, stop placement, and journaling tips.
Learn the four common gap types—common, breakaway, runaway, and exhaustion—with setup context, entry rules, targets, and journaling ideas.
Learn to identify the high tight flag, a rare bullish continuation pattern associated in the supplied reference with powerful post-breakout moves.
Learn how to identify and trade the inside bar, a two-candle consolidation setup that may act as continuation or reversal depending on context.
Learn the AB=CD measured move, a three-swing continuation structure used to project price targets through symmetry and Fibonacci extensions.
Learn the structural differences between pennants, flags, and wedges, including the volume behaviour and target logic traders often confuse.
Learn how to identify and trade the symmetrical triangle pattern with breakout rules, targets, stop placement, and journaling tips.
Single- and multi-candle formations used to read rejection, conviction, indecision, and confirmation.
Learn to identify and trade dark cloud cover, a two-candle bearish reversal formation that can trap breakout buyers near resistance.
Learn to read the dragonfly doji as a supply-and-demand auction, apply confirmation rules at support, and journal the surrounding context.
Learn to identify and trade bullish and bearish engulfing candlestick patterns with entry rules, stop placement, and journaling tips.
Learn the evening star, a three-candle bearish reversal pattern with identification rules, entry and exit criteria, and journaling prompts.
Learn to identify and trade the Falling Three Methods, a five-candle bearish continuation formation with volume confirmation rules.
Learn to identify and trade the gravestone doji, a bearish reversal signal that becomes more useful with strict context and volume filters.
Learn to identify and trade the hammer, a bullish reversal candle near downtrend lows, with entry, exit, stop, and journaling rules.
Learn to identify and trade the hanging man, a bearish reversal signal near uptrend highs with defined confirmation and risk rules.
Learn how to identify and trade the inverted hammer, a single-candle bullish reversal signal that requires confirmation before it becomes actionable.
Learn to identify and trade the kicker, a strong two-candle reversal formation, with entry rules, stop placement, and journaling tips.
Learn to identify and trade the long-legged doji, a high-indecision candle with extended shadows that may flag a reversal near important levels.
Learn how to identify and trade the marubozu candlestick pattern, a full-bodied candle that reflects strong conviction from buyers or sellers.
Learn to identify and trade the morning star with filtering criteria for volume, nearby support, momentum, and confirmation.
Learn to identify and trade the piercing line, a two-candle bullish reversal formation assessed through penetration depth, context, and volume.
Learn the pin bar’s anatomy, confluence filters, 50% entry technique, invalidation logic, and journaling considerations.
Learn to identify and trade the Rising Three Methods, a five-candle bullish continuation formation with volume-based confirmation rules.
Learn how to identify and trade the spinning top candlestick pattern through anatomy, market context, confirmation signals, and journaling prompts.
Learn to identify and trade the three black crows bearish reversal pattern with formation rules, entry triggers, stop placement, and journaling tips.
Learn to identify and trade Three Inside Up and Three Inside Down reversal patterns, including confirmation, entry rules, and stop placement.
Learn to identify and trade three white soldiers, a bullish reversal formation with an approximately 82% rate in the supplied reference when confirmed.
Learn to identify and trade tweezer tops and bottoms, two-candle reversals with matching highs or lows that show repeated rejection.
Geometric price formations built around Fibonacci relationships and a potential reversal zone.
Learn to trade the Butterfly harmonic pattern using its Fibonacci relationships, confirmation-based entries, risk placement, and worked examples.
Learn the Crab harmonic pattern with its Fibonacci ratios, potential reversal zone construction, stop placement, and journaling tips.
Learn the Cypher pattern’s XABCD Fibonacci relationships, entry and exit rules, stop placement, and a process for journaling the setup.
Learn to trade the Shark harmonic pattern using the OXABC structure, Fibonacci confluence, and counter-trend entries with defined risk.
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