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Bullish Upside Tasuki Gap
Three-candle continuation in an uptrend: two up candles with a gap up between them, then a down candle that fills part of the gap but leaves it open.
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 bullish upside tasuki gap is a continuation pattern that survives a pullback. The market is rising. Two strong up candles form with a clean gap up between them. Then a down candle pulls back into that gap but cannot close it, settling inside the open space rather than below it. The gap holds, so buyers stay in control and the climb is expected to go on.
How to spot it
- The market is rising into the pattern.
- The first candle is a strong up (green) candle with little wick.
- The second candle gaps up above the first and is also a strong up candle.
- The third candle is a down (red) candle that opens inside the second body and falls into the gap.
- It closes within the gap, above the first candle’s body, so the gap stays open.
- The more of the gap that holds, the stronger the continuation.
The psychology
This is a rising market, and buyers already own it. Two strong up candles with a clean gap between them say demand is so eager it will not wait for an orderly entry, it jumps the price higher and keeps going. That gap is a marker of how lopsided the buying has become.
Then the pullback arrives. The third candle is a down bar that drops back into the open space, and for a moment it looks like sellers are answering. But they run out of room before they close the gap. Price settles inside the empty zone, still above where the first up candle finished, so the ground the buyers seized is held. This is not a fight for control, it is a pause. Some longs take profit, the dip draws in fresh buyers at a slightly better price, and the dominant side is simply catching its breath before pressing on.
A pause that holds its gap is the setup. Whether the climb tends to resume from here is what the figures below measure.
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 up candles with a clean gap between them, then a third that gaps back the other way, so three nearly wick-free bodies and two gaps must line up in a row, a sequence index and commodity 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 down to the pattern’s invalidation point: the lowest low 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 support 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.