Experienced · Candlestick & chart patterns
Lower High Breakdown
What it means
An advance turned, rallied to a peak beneath the previous one, and then closed under the trough between them, completing the first lower high and lower low of a new decline.
At a glance
- Directional bias
- Bearish reversal
- Sessions to form
- 18 consecutive sessions
- Curriculum tier
- Experienced
- Pattern family
- failed high low
Practise this pattern in the Simulator
Reading a definition is not the same as spotting one. Run Lower High Breakdown on real historical NSE daily bars in the Pattern Arena — the chart pauses and explains the formation each time it completes. Virtual capital only.
Practise Lower High Breakdown in the SimulatorRelated patterns
Failed New High
bearishPrice made a fresh peak, could not hold it, and then closed below the trough that preceded it, so the highest print of the advance became its last.
Breakdown Reclaim
bullishPrice made a fresh trough, could not hold beneath it, and then closed back above the peak that preceded it, so the lowest print of the decline became its last.
Morning Doji Star
bullishA strong down session is followed by one that closed exactly where it opened and then a strong up session, showing the decline stalling completely before buyers took over.
Evening Doji Star
bearishA strong up session is followed by one that closed exactly where it opened and then a strong down session, showing the advance stalling completely before sellers took over.
Abandoned Baby (Bull)
bullishA session that closed where it opened sits isolated below a decline, gapped away on both sides with no overlap at all, a rare exhaustion of selling at a potential bottom.
Abandoned Baby (Bear)
bearishA session that closed where it opened sits isolated above an advance, gapped away on both sides with no overlap at all, a rare exhaustion of buying at a potential top.
Educational reference only. This describes what traders conventionally read into the Lower High Breakdown formation. It is not a trading signal, a prediction or investment advice, and no pattern is reliable on its own. Finance Onyx is a simulated educational platform: all practice uses virtual capital and no order is ever routed to a broker or an exchange.