Japanese candlestick charting techniques (Steve Nison, 1991)
Reversal
- Almost same length candle
- Dark cloud cover (bearish candle with higher high and full body).
- Bullish candle followed by bearish.
- Pattern piercing (bullish candle with lower low and full body).
- Bearish candle followed by bullish.
- Stars
- Evening star (and hang man and hammer).
- Morning star (and inverted hammer).
- Shooting star.
- Doji star.
- Bullish tri-star.
- Bearish tri-star.
- Rickshaw man (long legged doji).
- Harami
The shadow can exceed mother's length - Bearish mother with bullish baby near the lower body.
- Bullish engulfing.
- Tweezer bottom.
- Bullish mother with bearish baby near the upper body.
- Bearish engulfing.
- Tweezer top.
- Crows
- Upside gap two crows.
- Two crows.
- Counterattack line.
The close met at the same place. - Bearish counterattack line: bullish candle then bearish candle.
- Bullish meeting line.
- Bullish counterattack line: bearish candle then bullish candle.
- Bearish meeting line.
- 3 middle range candles
- 3 white soldiers.
- 3 advancing white soldier.
- Advance block.
- Stalled pattern.
- 3 black crows.
Continuation
- Mat-hold pattern
- Like the uppercase N.
- Can also happen to have a window gap in the beginning of the N.
- Do not enter if the exit of the N also have a window gap.
- 3 short rising or falling candle with HH and HL or LL and LH.
- Falling three method.
- Rising three method.
- Tasuki gap
- Candle + gap + candle + reverse candle.
- Downward tasuki gap.
- Upward tasuki gap.
Patterns
- Reversal
- 3 mountain top (triple top).
- 3 river bottom (triple bottom).
- 3 buddha (head and shoulder).
- Inverted 3 buddha (inverted head and shoulder).
- Gentle semi circle + a small window gap.
- Dumpling top.
- Fry pan bottom.
- Towers.
Long candles with small ones to top or bottom then long opposite candle. - Tower top (bearish breakaway).
- Tower bottom (bullish breakaway).
- Spring
Long shadow and quickly spring back to the candle body.

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