Candlestick Patterns
Deliberation Pattern (Stalled Pattern)
Two long white candles followed by a third, small-bodied white candle near the top of the recent range. The tank below drains in real time as body size shrinks, showing momentum running out of fuel.
Step forward one candle at a time
Three clicks, three candles. Candle one sets the tank to full using its own real body size as the scale. Candle two drains it relative to candle one. Candle three, usually the smallest, drains it further against the rolling two-bar average. After all three, play forward and see whether the exhaustion this gauge is measuring actually turned into a pullback.
| Candle 1 body | — |
| Candle 2 body | — |
| Candle 3 body | — |
| Rolling 2-bar average (bars 1–2) | — |
Click "Reveal candle 1" to begin.
How it works
- Candle one sets the scale, not a signal by itself. A long white candle after a run higher is normal trend behavior. The gauge starts full because there is nothing yet to compare it against.
- Candle two has to still be a real, sizeable move. The gauge drains by whatever fraction candle two's body is of candle one's. A candle two that's still 90% of candle one's size barely drains the tank at all, which is exactly the point, deliberation needs genuine shrinkage, not just any second up candle.
- Candle three is graded against the average, not just candle two. The rolling reference uses candles one and two together, so a small candle three reads as more exhausted after two strong bars than it would after two already-weakening ones.
- Small body near the top of the range is the real tell. A small candle that gapped down would be a different pattern. Here it's holding near recent highs while barely making net progress, net indecision after a strong run.
- This is a weak signal, not a reversal signal. Deliberation flags exhaustion, it does not promise a pullback. The play-forward stat row below tracks that honestly across every sequence you run.
Where this breaks
The pullback rate here runs close to a coin flip, and that's the honest number
A drained fuel gauge looks decisive on screen, but the underlying statistic is not. Strong trends frequently produce one or two quiet, small-bodied candles without ever reversing, they pause and continue. Treating every low reading as an entry signal for a short or a fade means being wrong close to half the time, which is a losing proposition once spread and slippage are included. The gauge is useful for describing what already happened to momentum, it is a poor tool for predicting what happens next on its own, and this page's stat row is built to keep showing that plainly rather than dress up the numbers.