Bearish Candlestick Patterns
Candlestick formations that warn of selling pressure and potential tops — shooting stars, dark cloud cover, evening stars, and more. Each guide covers pattern structure, the psychology behind it, confirmation signals, and how traders manage entries around it.
- Bearish Abandoned Baby
A bearish abandoned baby is a rare island-gap reversal: a doji isolated above the trend by two clean gaps. Covers recognition and trading it.
- Bearish Advance Block
The Bearish Advance Block is three rising candles with shrinking bodies and lengthening upper shadows, an early warning that buying pressure is fading.
- Bearish Belt Hold
A bearish belt hold opens near its high and closes near its low after an advance, showing sellers in control. Covers recognition and trading.
- Bearish Breakaway
The bearish breakaway is a five-candle top reversal: a gap up, drifting candles, then a long black candle that closes back inside the gap.
- Bearish Dark Cloud Cover
A bearish dark cloud cover is a two-candle top reversal where a gap-up open fails and price closes below the first candle's midpoint.
- Bearish Deliberation
The bearish deliberation pattern shows an uptrend losing steam through a small third candle after two strong advances. Covers recognition and trading.
- Bearish Doji Star
A bearish doji star forms when a doji gaps above a strong uptrend candle, warning of stalled momentum. Covers recognition, psychology, and trading rules.
- Bearish Downside Gap Three Methods
The Bearish Downside Gap Three Methods gaps down twice then gets fully filled; Bulkowski found it often acts bullish, contrary to its name.
- Bearish Downside Tasuki Gap
The downside tasuki gap is a three-candle bearish continuation pattern where a rally fails to close a prior gap down. Here is how to trade it.
- Bearish Dragonfly Doji
A dragonfly doji is normally a bullish signal. This guide covers that standard reading plus the rarer, confirmation-heavy bearish variant at uptrend tops.
- Bearish Engulfing
A bearish engulfing pattern is a two-candle top reversal where the second candle's real body fully covers the first. Learn to spot and trade it.
- Bearish Evening Doji Star
A bearish evening doji star pairs a strong advance, a true doji at the high, and a sharp reversal candle. A rarer, stronger evening star variant.
- Bearish Evening Star
A bearish evening star is a three-candle top reversal — a strong advance, a small indecisive star, then a sharp reversal candle. Spot and trade it.
- Bearish Falling Three Methods
The Bearish Falling Three Methods is a five-candle continuation pattern: a long down candle, a small pullback, then a new low confirming the downtrend.
- Bearish Gravestone Doji
A bearish gravestone doji shows buyers rejected at the highs, closing near the open and low. Covers recognition, confirmation, and trading this top signal.
- Bearish Hanging Man
A bearish hanging man is a hammer-shaped candle after an uptrend that needs confirmation to signal a top. Learn to spot and trade it correctly.
- Bearish Harami
A bearish harami is a two-candle pattern where a small candle sits inside a prior large bullish candle, hinting at fading uptrend momentum.
- Bearish Harami Cross
A bearish harami cross pairs a large bullish candle with a doji fully contained inside it, a stronger variant of the bearish harami pattern.
- Bearish In Neck
The bearish in neck pattern is a two-candle continuation signal where a small rally closes just above a prior black candle's close. How to trade it.
- Bearish Kicking
The bearish kicking pattern is a two-candle reversal signal: a bullish marubozu followed by a gap down into a bearish marubozu candle.
- Bearish Long Legged Doji
A bearish long-legged doji shows long shadows on both sides after an uptrend, reflecting deep indecision. Covers recognition and trading tactics.
- Bearish Meeting Lines
Bearish meeting lines are a two-candle reversal pattern where a bullish candle and a following bearish candle close at nearly the same price.
- Bearish On Neck
The bearish on neck pattern is a two-candle continuation signal where a rally closes at the prior candle's low, showing a very weak bounce.
- Bearish Separating Lines
Bearish separating lines are a two-candle continuation pattern: a white candle followed by a black candle that opens at the same price and closes lower.
- Bearish Shooting Star
A bearish shooting star is a single-candle top reversal pattern with a small body and long upper shadow. Learn to spot, confirm, and trade it.
- Bearish Three Inside Down
The Bearish Three Inside Down pairs a bearish harami with a confirming close below the first candle's low, signaling a shift from uptrend to downtrend.
- Bearish Three Line Strike
The Bearish Three Line Strike stacks three down candles, then a big up candle that engulfs them all, yet the downtrend typically continues, not reverses.
- Bearish Three Outside Down
The Bearish Three Outside Down adds a confirming down close to a bearish engulfing pattern, turning a two-candle reversal signal into a three-candle one.
- Bearish Thrusting
The bearish thrusting pattern is a two-candle continuation signal where a rally closes into the prior candle's body but below its midpoint.
- Bearish Tri Star
A bearish tri star is a rare three-doji pattern at market tops signaling exhaustion. Covers identification, confirmation, and trading this uncommon setup.
- Bearish Two Crows
The Bearish Two Crows is a rare three-candle top pattern: a strong up candle followed by two black candles that fail to hold the gap higher.
- Bearish Upside Gap Two Crows
The Bearish Upside Gap Two Crows is a rare pattern: two black candles follow a gap up but never fill it, until a later break confirms the top.