A candlestick pattern is a short record of who won a session and by how much. On its own a shape means very little. What gives it meaning is where it appears, so the same hammer is worth reading at the bottom of a long decline and worth ignoring halfway up a rally.
Below is every pattern we cover, grouped by what it signals. The strength figure is how often the pattern has been followed by the move it suggests, which is a historical tendency rather than a promise about the next one. Each links to a full guide, and you can see which coins are printing any of them right now in the live pattern scanner.
These form where sellers run out of room. They are worth the most at the bottom of a move and worth very little in the middle of one.
What the three candles of a morning star reversal pattern mean, what the backtests really show, and the volume filter that lifts its win rate.
Three consecutive green candles, each opening within the prior candle's body and closing higher. Three white soldiers don't just signal a bounce — they signal that buyers have taken durable control.
The bullish engulfing is one of the most reliable 2-candle reversal patterns in crypto. When a green candle completely swallows the prior red candle, the shift in momentum is hard to ignore.
A marubozu has no wicks — the open is the low (or high) and the close is the high (or low). When one side controls a session this completely, the message is clear.
The piercing line is a bullish reversal pattern where a green candle opens below the prior red candle's close but fights back to cover at least half of it. The fight-back is the signal.
The hammer is one of crypto's most reliable reversal signals — but only when it appears in the right place. Learn formation rules, position-based outcomes, and how to confirm it with volume.
The bullish harami is a mother-and-child pattern — a large red candle followed by a small green candle contained entirely within it. The small body inside the large one signals that selling momentum may be fading.
Unlike a standard doji, the dragonfly doji has a clear directional lean — buyers rejected lower prices completely. Here's what it signals and when to act on it.
A tweezer bottom forms when two consecutive candles hit the exact same low — and price bounces from both. The matching lows are the market saying support is real.
The inverted hammer looks like a shooting star — long upper wick, small body at the bottom. But at the right location, it's a bullish reversal signal. Here's why position changes everything.
The mirror image: buyers pushing and failing. Same rule applies, they mean something at the top of a rally and almost nothing elsewhere.
The evening star is the bearish counterpart to the morning star — and equally powerful at 90/100. Three candles that tell the story of a rally losing momentum, hesitating, then reversing.
The three black crows pattern is three sessions of seller control, not a warning. The recognition rules, the context filters, and when it is worth shorting.
When a red candle swallows the prior green candle completely, buyers have lost everything they gained — and sellers are now in control. Learn when the bearish engulfing is a genuine reversal signal.
The dark cloud cover pattern is a two-candle bearish warning. What the midpoint rule means, how often it really appears, and what the historical data says.
The shooting star warns that buyers ran out of steam at the highs. Learn what it looks like, when it's valid, and how position changes everything about what it signals.
A large green candle followed by a small red candle contained inside it — the bearish harami says buying momentum has contracted. Here's when to take it seriously.
What the gravestone doji candlestick signals, what the backtests actually show, and the confirmation rule that separates a real rejection from a noisy wick.
A tweezer top forms when two consecutive candles reach the same high and both fail to close there. The matching highs signal that resistance at that level is real — and holding.
Neither side won the session. On its own this is not a signal, it is a prompt to wait for the candle that follows.
Two habits separate people who use these well from people who lose money with them. The first is waiting for the next candle to confirm before acting. The second is checking whether the pattern actually worked on the coin and timeframe you are trading, rather than trusting a number from a stock market study.
You can test the second with the backtester, and read how to backtest without fooling yourself before you trust any result it gives you. If you are earlier than that, start with how to read crypto charts.
19 of these have a full guide. The rest are scannable now and written up as we go.