Candlestick Patterns
Rising Three Methods / Falling Three Methods
One strong candle, three small pullback candles that stay contained inside it, then a strong candle back in the original direction.
Watch the five bars print
A new bar prints roughly every second, or click "Next bar" to move at your own pace. Bar 1 is forced large and directional, direction randomized each run. Bars 2 through 4 pull back the other way, and on about a third of runs one of them deliberately pokes outside bar 1's range, a real failed setup, not a rigged one. The checklist below reads the actual bar data live, nothing is hardcoded. Once bars 1 through 4 are in and conditions 1 through 4 are known, you get one call: enter now or wait for bar 5.
How it works
- Bar one and bar five carry the direction. Bar one sets the trend and bar five confirms it continued. Bars two through four just have to not break it.
- Containment counts the whole range, wicks included. Any middle candle poking beyond bar one's high or low fails the pattern immediately, no matter how small its body is.
- Small doesn't mean weak, it means contained. The middle candles moving against the trend is normal profit-taking, as long as they stay inside the box.
- Confirmation is bar five's close, not bar four's shape. Four candles into a textbook setup still isn't a finished pattern. Entering before that print is a specific, nameable bet.
- Both entry timings get scored on purpose. Entering after bar four sometimes catches the move earlier, and sometimes catches a setup that never gets a real bar five.
Where this breaks
When the pullback candles stop being small
The entire pattern depends on bars two through four staying minor relative to bar one. Once one of those middle candles starts printing a body close to bar one's own size, the pause reads less like profit-taking and more like a genuine fight for control, and the odds of an actual reversal instead of a continuation climb fast. A rising three methods where the middle candles average a small fraction of the first candle's size is a very different setup from one where they're routinely running half its size, even though both can technically stay contained inside the same box. Containment alone doesn't measure that difference, it only checks the outer edges, so two setups that pass the identical checklist can carry very different odds depending on how much room the middle candles actually used up inside it.