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What Is a Chart Pattern

A chart pattern is a recognizable formation of price movements on financial charts that helps traders identify potential trends and trading opportunities. There are three main types of chart patterns: reversal, continuation, and bilateral, each with specific characteristics and examples. While chart patterns can sometimes be misleading, they are generally effective in predicting future price movements.

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What Is a Chart Pattern

A chart pattern is a recognizable formation of price movements on financial charts that helps traders identify potential trends and trading opportunities. There are three main types of chart patterns: reversal, continuation, and bilateral, each with specific characteristics and examples. While chart patterns can sometimes be misleading, they are generally effective in predicting future price movements.

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What Is a Chart Pattern?

A chart pattern is a recognizable formation of price movements on a financial chart. Past market data and current price action of an asset, such as cryptocurrency, can help detect potential trends, reversals, and trading
opportunities. Some common
chart patterns. Click here for full size image.

Chart patterns are a useful tool for traders. While they can be misleading on some occasions, they are generally effective at understanding and predicting future price movements. For example, if you identify a bearish pattern

like the rising wedge pattern, you will know there is a likelihood that price levels will go down.

3 Major Chart Pattern Types

There are three main types of chart patterns: reversal, continuation, and bilateral. Here is an overview of each of these types and some examples.

Bilateral

The market exhibits a bilateral pattern when buyers and sellers are unable to gain an advantage. The pattern that develops can result in either the continuation or the reversal of the current trend. Examples of bilateral patterns

include:

o Symmetrical Triangle. This bilateral chart pattern is identified when the price is moving in a range, forming a triangle shape with successive lower highs and higher lows. This neutral chart pattern has no particular direction
bias and can potentially result in either a bullish or a bearish breakout.
Triangle chart patterns cheat sheet.
o Rectangle. This pattern emerges when the price fluctuates within two horizontal boundaries. The top line serves as resistance, while the bottom line serves as support. This pattern has the potential to result in either a bullish
or a bearish breakout.
Rectangle chart patterns cheat sheet.

Continuation

A continuation chart pattern can indicate that there will be a period of stagnation before the price regains its previous momentum. It is expected that the preceding trend will remain even after the pattern is finished.

Here are some examples:


o Flags and Pennants. These bullish patterns typically are formed after a sharp price move occurs, where the price consolidates in a narrow range. Flag patterns have a rectangular shape, while on the other hand, pennants are
more triangular in shape. These continuation chart patterns are usually viewed as signs of a continuing uptrend, indicating that the period of consolidation is a temporary stabilization before the trend resumes.

Bullish and bearish flag patterns.


o Ascending and Descending Triangles. These patterns form when the price is moving in a range with a series of higher lows or lower highs. An ascending triangle has a flat top and an upward-sloping bottom trendline,
whereas a descending triangle has a flat bottom and a downward-sloping top trendline. These bullish chart patterns are generally regarded as signs of further upward price trends.
Ascending and descending triangle chart patterns.

Reversal

Reversal patterns can be employed to identify potential direction changes in market trends. Reversal patterns usually occur when a trend is ending; they can signal a shift in the asset’s price. Some examples of reversal

patterns are:

o Head and Shoulders. This is a triple peak pattern that is observed when the price reaches a peak, is then exceeded by a higher peak, and then falls back to a lower peak. It is shaped like a head with two shoulders. This
pattern is classified as a bearish reversal pattern.
v The head and shoulders pattern.
o Double Top/Bottom. This pattern forms when the price reaches a high, pulls back, and then rises to a similar high or falls to a similar low. If this pattern appears at the end of an uptrend, it is referred to as a bearish reversal.
If it appears at the end of a downtrend, it is known as a bullish reversal.
The double top trading pattern.
What Is a Chart Patterns Cheat Sheet?

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