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Pattern Specialist
Readers who study candlestick, chart and harmonic patterns and want definitions they can check.
Apply pattern rules with context, read match % as fit, separate patterns from noise, and review a failed setup honestly.
- 30 lessons
- 109 min of reading
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
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A pattern's match score is not a probability
A match score says how closely a shape fits a pattern's rules. It is not the chance the pattern leads anywhere. Learn the difference.
In the app: Inspectable chart detection (in development)
Foundations
- 1
Timeframes: zoom in without losing the plot
Timeframes decide which bars form a pattern
- Beginner
- Explainer
- 3 min
- Coming soon
- 2
Trends, ranges and the moments between
Patterns need a stated trend or range context
- Beginner
- Visual guide
- 3 min
- Coming soon
- 3
Support and resistance: zones, not lines
Location near zones is part of pattern context
- Beginner
- Visual guide
- 3 min
- Coming soon
- 4
Trendlines and channels without wishful drawing
Line fitting underlies triangles and channels
- Beginner
- Explainer
- 3 min
- Coming soon
- 5
Volume basics: the participation behind a move
Volume is a context check for chart patterns
- Beginner
- Explainer
- 3 min
- Coming soon
- 6
How to study patterns without memorising predictions
How to study patterns without predictions
- Beginner
- Explainer
- 3 min
- Coming soon
- 7
How to read a Pattern Atlas card
How every Atlas card is laid out
- Beginner
- Visual guide
- 3 min
- Coming soon
- 8
A pattern's match score is not a probability
Match % measures fit, not probability
- Beginner
- Explainer
- 3 min
- 9
Candle builder: drag a candle, see the rules
Drag a candle and see rules classify it
- Beginner
- Interactive tool
- 3 min
- Coming soon
- 10
Doji family: when open and close meet
Doji rules set body tolerance for later cards
- Beginner
- Pattern card
- 3 min
- Coming soon
- 11
Hammer and hanging man: same shape, new place
Same shape, new name: context in action
- Beginner
- Pattern card
- 3 min
- Coming soon
- 12
Engulfing patterns: bodies that swallow bodies
Two-bar patterns start with engulfing
- Beginner
- Pattern card
- 3 min
- Coming soon
- 13
Candlestick patterns cheat sheet
One-page candlestick reference
- Beginner
- Cheat sheet
- 2 min
- Coming soon
- 14
Returns: simple, log and percentage points
Statistics basics needed for the random-data lessons
- Beginner
- Explainer
- 3 min
- Coming soon
- 15
Standard deviation: volatility as a number
Random-data basics before the noise lesson
- Beginner
- Visual guide
- 3 min
- Coming soon
Core
- 16
Swing highs and lows: the skeleton of price
Swing pivots define chart-pattern points
- Beginner
- Visual guide
- 3 min
- Coming soon
- 17
Market structure: higher highs, lower lows, breaks
Structure supplies the prior trend for reversals
- Intermediate
- Visual guide
- 3 min
- Coming soon
- 18
Pattern lifecycle: forming, confirmed, failed
Lifecycle: forming, confirmed, failed
- Intermediate
- Visual guide
- 3 min
- Coming soon
- 19
Context first: trend, location and volume
Context first: trend, location and volume
- Intermediate
- Explainer
- 5 min
- Coming soon
- 20
Failed patterns: what a failure tells you
What a failed pattern tells you
- Intermediate
- Explainer
- 5 min
- Coming soon
- 21
Head and shoulders, and the inverse
Head and shoulders: the reference reversal shape
- Intermediate
- Pattern card
- 3 min
- Coming soon
- 22
Double tops and double bottoms
Double tops and bottoms: comparable extremes
- Intermediate
- Pattern card
- 3 min
- Coming soon
- 23
Chart patterns cheat sheet
One-page chart-pattern reference
- Intermediate
- Cheat sheet
- 2 min
- Coming soon
- 24
Random walks can draw convincing patterns
Random walks draw convincing patterns too
- Beginner
- Field note or build note
- 5 min
- Coming soon
- 25
Pullbacks and retracements: measuring the pause
Retracements prepare for Fibonacci and harmonics
- Intermediate
- Explainer
- 5 min
- Coming soon
- 26
Fibonacci retracements: the anchors decide
Anchors and ratios needed for harmonic patterns
- Intermediate
- Explainer
- 5 min
- Coming soon
Advanced
- 27
Confirmation lag: price action without hindsight
Confirmation lag in price action
- Advanced
- Explainer
- 6 min
- Coming soon
- 28
Pivots that move: why patterns change later
Pivots that move: check patterns in replay
- Advanced
- Explainer
- 6 min
- Coming soon
- 29
Harmonic patterns 101: XABCD and ratio tolerance
Harmonic ratios as conventions with tolerance
- Advanced
- Explainer
- 6 min
- Coming soon
- 30Capstone
A pattern autopsy: the perfect setup that failed
Capstone: autopsy of a failed high-match setup
- Intermediate
- Field note or build note
- 5 min
- Coming soon
Optional reading: 10
- Spot the pattern: weekly challenge
- Measured moves: arithmetic, not a target
- Ascending and descending triangles
- AB=CD and the Gartley
- Morning star and evening star
- Flags and pennants: pauses after a pole
- Volatility contraction pattern (VCP)
- Indicator conditions are not candlestick patterns
- Candlestick patterns in 24/7 markets
- Inside, outside and narrow-range bars
In the app
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