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Falling Three Methods Candle Pattern
The falling three methods candles pattern is one of my favorite candlesticks. Why? Because it reminds me of a miniature measured move down chart pattern. That chart pattern sees price drop, recover during the corrective phase, and then the drop resumes. The falling three methods candle pattern accomplishes all of that in just five candles.
Falling Three Methods: Important Results
Theoretical performance: Bearish continuation Tested performance: Bearish continuation 71% of the time Frequency rank: 91 Overall performance rank: 89 Best percentage meeting price target: 40% (bull market, down breakout) Best average move in 10 days: 4.58% (bull market, up breakout) Best 10-day performance rank: 20 (bull market, up breakout) All ranks are out of 103 candlestick patterns with the top performer ranking 1. “Best” means the highest rated of the four combinations of bull/bear market, up/down breakouts. The above numbers are based on hundreds of perfect trades. See the glossary for definitions. |  Falling Three |
The falling three methods candlestick behaves in theory as it does in real life. It is a bearish continuation 71% of the time and a reversal the remainder of the time. Unfortunately, with just 64 samples appearing out of 4.7 million candle lines studied, solid performance statistics are as rare as the candle itself.
Falling Three Methods: Discussion
| Characteristic | Discussion |
| Number of candle lines | Five. |
| Price trend leading to the pattern | Downward. |
| Configuration | Look for a series of five candles in a downward price trend. The first day should be a tall black candle followed by three up trending small while candles (except the middle of the three, which can be either black or white), followed by another tall black candle with a close below the first day’s close. The three middle candles should remain within the high-low range of the first candle. |
Falling Three Methods: Identification Guidelines
The falling three methods candlestick pattern is so rare that I do not show in my Encyclopedia of Candlestick Charts book the statistics from the 64 falling three methods that I uncovered. Most of the entries would have been blank. The above important results show more information than the book.
Falling Three Methods: Example
Shown on the daily chart, circled in red, is one of the few examples of a falling three methods candlestick. The first and last days are tall black candlesticks. Between them are three smaller candle lines that trend upward and remain within the high-low range of the first candle, well, sort of. The shadows of the middle three candles poke outside the range. The last candle closes below the low of the first candle.
This falling three methods pattern acts as a reversal of the brief downtrend. Price closes above the top of the five candlesticks, scoring an upward breakout.
— Thomas Bulkowski
Shown on the daily chart, circled in red, is one of the few examples of a falling three methods candlestick. The first and last days are tall black candlesticks. Between them are three smaller candle lines that trend upward and remain within the high-low range of the first candle, well, sort of. The shadows of the middle three candles poke outside the range. The last candle closes below the low of the first candle.
This falling three methods pattern acts as a reversal of the brief downtrend. Price closes above the top of the five candlesticks, scoring an upward breakout.
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