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Pattern Detail
Bearish Unique Three Mountain Top
Three-candle bearish reversal after a rally: an up candle, a tall up candle with a long upper wick, then a small down candle gapping above 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 unique three mountain top is a three-candle top that stalls at a fresh high. After a rise, an up candle leads, then a second up candle pushes to a new high but leaves a long upper wick where sellers pressed back. A small down candle then gaps up above that, unable to make real progress. The market reaches for one more peak, fails to hold it, and rolls over.
How to spot it
- The market is rising into the pattern.
- The first candle is an up (green) candle.
- The second candle is up too, opens above the first candle’s close, and pushes to a new high with a long upper wick overhead.
- The third candle is a small down (red) candle that gaps up above the second.
- The third candle cannot close any lower than the second, so the advance has stalled at the top.
The psychology
The first up candle keeps the rally honest and buyers in control. The second candle pushes to a fresh high, the kind of move that should reward anyone long. But it closes well off that high and leaves a long upper wick, and that wick is the tell: buyers reached up for a new peak and sellers leaned in hard, dragging price back down before the bar closed. The high was made, then rejected.
The third candle gaps up above the second, one more attempt to extend the trend, and then it cannot do anything with the higher ground. It gives up its gains and closes back down, unable to better the second candle. The market tried twice for a new peak and got knocked off both times. The buyers are not routed yet, but they have stopped making progress, and the repeated rejection at the top shows the demand that drove the rally is drying up.
A stall at the high is a warning, not a verdict, and the figures below measure how often it leads lower.
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 an up candle that opens higher and pushes to a new high with a long upper tail, then a short down candle that gaps up again, a sequence these futures rarely draw. 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 three 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.