Continuation pattern
Technical analysisAlso called: Continuation patterns
A candle or price formation describing a trend pausing rather than reversing, before resuming in the original direction.
In plain terms
The test is territorial, not visual: if the pause stays inside the ground the trend already won and volume thins while it happens, it is a rest. If it takes that ground back on rising volume, the name of the shape stops mattering.
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Technical analysisAlso called: Falling three methods
A continuation pattern: a long trend candle, then two to four small candles drifting back inside its range on lighter volume, then another long candle closing beyond the first one’s extreme.
In plain terms
The picture of a healthy pullback — shallow, unhurried and unsupported by volume, meaning nobody is willing to sell in size. The falling three methods is the same structure inside a downtrend.
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