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Bearish Downside Tasuki Gap
Bearish continuation in a downtrend: two down candles gap apart, then an up candle pushes back into the gap but cannot close it.
Shown only on the markets where this pattern occurs.
This pattern did not fire often enough on this market and timeframe to measure. Try a lower timeframe or a more active instrument.
This pattern did not fire often enough on this market and timeframe to measure. Try a lower timeframe or a more active instrument.
This pattern did not fire often enough on this market and timeframe to measure. Try a lower timeframe or a more active instrument.
This pattern did not fire often enough on this market and timeframe to measure. Try a lower timeframe or a more active instrument.
This pattern did not fire often enough on this market and timeframe to measure. Try a lower timeframe or a more active instrument.
This pattern did not fire often enough on this market and timeframe to measure. Try a lower timeframe or a more active instrument.
This pattern did not fire often enough on this market and timeframe to measure. Try a lower timeframe or a more active instrument.
This pattern did not fire often enough on this market and timeframe to measure. Try a lower timeframe or a more active instrument.
This pattern did not fire often enough on this market and timeframe to measure. Try a lower timeframe or a more active instrument.
This pattern did not fire often enough on this market and timeframe to measure. Try a lower timeframe or a more active instrument.
This pattern did not fire often enough on this market and timeframe to measure. Try a lower timeframe or a more active instrument.
This pattern did not fire often enough on this market and timeframe to measure. Try a lower timeframe or a more active instrument.
This pattern did not fire often enough on this market and timeframe to measure. Try a lower timeframe or a more active instrument.
This pattern did not fire often enough on this market and timeframe to measure. Try a lower timeframe or a more active instrument.
A bearish downside tasuki gap is a continuation pattern in a falling market. Two down candles print with a gap between them, the selling clear and one-sided. Then an up candle tries to fight back and pushes into the gap, but it stalls before filling it. The bounce fails to close the gap, so the downtrend holds and sellers stay in control.
How to spot it
- The market is falling into the pattern.
- The first two candles are down (red) candles with full bodies.
- The second down candle gaps below the first, leaving open space.
- The third candle is an up (green) candle that opens inside the gap and pushes higher.
- The bounce stops short, closing inside the gap without filling it.
The psychology
The market is falling, and the first two down candles make the selling look one-sided. The second one gaps below the first, leaving open space, which is sellers so eager they would not even wait for price to trade down through the gap. Coming into the third bar, the people pushing the market lower are firmly in control.
Then buyers try to fight back. The third candle is green, opening inside the gap and pushing higher, an attempt to reclaim the ground that was given up so quickly. The test is whether it can close the gap. It cannot. The bounce stalls inside the open space and finishes there, unable to erase the down move that came before it. That failed rally is the tell: the bears let buyers have a small recovery, then capped it well short of repair. This is not control changing hands, it is the dominant side absorbing a counterattack and staying on top.
A bounce that dies inside the gap leaves the trend in place, and the figures below test how often the slide picks back up.
Does it actually work?
A pattern is a setup, not a trade, so the honest question is not “did it win” but “how much room did it tend to offer before it was proven wrong.” The tabs below answer that across five futures markets (Nasdaq, S&P 500, gold, crude oil, natural gas) and seven timeframes from one minute to one day.
For each occurrence we measure the room the move offered in units of the pattern’s own risk, then set it against what a random entry on the same market would have done. When the pattern offers more room more often than chance, that shows up as a real edge. When it does not, the page says so plainly.
Read it with the sample size in view. On the faster timeframes a pattern can fire thousands of times, enough to trust. On the daily chart it is far rarer, so treat those numbers as a hint rather than a verdict. Thin samples are flagged for you on the page.
Did it appear?
In the five futures markets and the history measured here, this pattern did not occur. It asks for two strong down candles with a clean gap between them, then a third that gaps back up, so three nearly wick-free bodies and two gaps must line up in a row, a sequence these futures almost never print. The measurement below is ready for it, but on these markets there has been nothing to measure. Treat it as a textbook form to recognize rather than a setup you will meet often here.
How we measured it
- Entry is the close of the final candle of the pattern.
- One unit of risk, 1R, is the distance from that close up to the pattern’s invalidation point: the highest high of the two candles that form it. If price trades through there, the setup is wrong.
- We then follow the next 20 bars and record how far price ran in your favor, in multiples of that risk, before the stop was hit.
- Every figure is set against a random entry on the same market and timeframe, so the market’s own drift is accounted for.
- No profit target and no position sizing. Where you take profit is a strategy choice; this measures only the room the pattern tends to give.
What this page does not cover
- Volume on the pattern’s candles.
- Whether the pattern forms at a meaningful resistance level.
- Pairing it with a trend filter or a confirming signal.
- A profit target or position sizing. We use the pattern’s own invalidation point as the stop to define risk, but where you take profit, and how much you put on, are strategy decisions this page leaves to you.