Experienced · Candlestick & chart patterns
Failed Retest
What it means
A broken floor was approached again from beneath and turned price away, so the level that gave way is now acting as a ceiling rather than being reclaimed.
At a glance
- Directional bias
- Bearish continuation
- Sessions to form
- 18 consecutive sessions
- Curriculum tier
- Experienced
- Pattern family
- failed retest
Practise this pattern in the Simulator
Reading a definition is not the same as spotting one. Run Failed Retest 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 Failed Retest in the SimulatorRelated patterns
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.
Upside Gap Two Crows
bearishPrice gapped higher then gave most of it back over two successive down sessions while still holding above the earlier close, showing buyers losing their grip near a potential top.
Rising Three Methods
bullishA strong up session is followed by three small sessions that drift back inside its range, then a fresh up close above them all, a pause the advance may potentially continue through.
Educational reference only. This describes what traders conventionally read into the Failed Retest 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.