Candlestick Patterns
Two Crows (Upside Two Crows)
Two bearish candles land right after a strong uptrend and it looks like the top is in. Most of the time it isn't. This page tracks how often the alarm is right.
Step through setups, watch the dial escalate
Click "Next setup" to generate a fresh strong bullish candle followed by two more bars. A 3-stage escalation panel lights up live as each condition gets checked against the actual open, high, low, and close of every candle, never against how the shape looks. Stage 1 checks the gap-up-then-bearish close on candle two. Stage 2 checks that candle two's close is still above candle one's close, the detail that keeps this a warning instead of an outright reversal. Stage 3 only lights if candle three closes back inside or below candle one's real body. Reveal the next several bars to see what price actually did, and watch the running reversal rate build from real outcomes.
Stage 1
Candle 2 gaps up, closes bearish
Stage 2
Candle 2's close still above candle 1's close
Stage 3
Candle 3 closes into or below candle 1's body
Click "Next setup" to generate the first candle.
How it works
- It needs a real uptrend and a genuinely strong first candle. Candle one has to actually continue the move, a big real body with the close near the high, not just any green bar.
- Candle two's setup is computed, not eyeballed. It has to open above candle one's close, which is the gap, and then close below its own open, which is the bearish part. Both are checked directly off the numbers.
- Staying above candle one's close is what keeps this a warning. If candle two's close had dropped below candle one's close, the "two crows" label stops applying, that's really just a normal two-bar reversal.
- Candle three has to open inside candle two's body and close back into candle one's territory. That's the condition that pushes the dial to stage 3, and it's the rarest of the three checkpoints by a wide margin.
- Escalating to stage 3 is a pattern match, not a prediction. The tracker below exists because the honest question isn't whether the shape completed, it's how often price actually kept falling afterward.
Where this breaks
Looking alarming and being right are two different things
Two Crows is documented in candlestick literature as one of the least reliable named reversal patterns, and it shows up rarely to begin with. Two down candles landing right after a strong up move naturally reads as a warning, but a strong uptrend has real momentum behind it, and two bearish bars are often nothing more than profit taking before the trend resumes. Run enough setups through the dial above and the stage-3 confirmed group should settle out with a false alarm rate well above the true reversal rate, not because the mechanics are wrong but because the pattern itself was never a strong signal in the first place. Traders who short the moment the dial hits stage 3, expecting a real top, are trading a name more than a statistic.