Intermediate · Candlestick & chart patterns
Triple Top
What it means
Price failed at the same level three times and has now broken the support beneath those attempts, showing buyers repeatedly repelled at one price and a potential reversal downward.
At a glance
- Directional bias
- Bearish reversal
- Sessions to form
- 19 consecutive sessions
- Curriculum tier
- Intermediate
- Pattern family
- triple
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Practise Triple Top in the SimulatorRelated patterns
Triple Bottom
bullishPrice held the same level three times and has now broken the resistance above those attempts, showing sellers repeatedly repelled at one price and a potential reversal upward.
Tweezer Top
bearishTwo consecutive sessions peak at almost exactly the same high, showing buyers repeatedly failing at one price and indicating a potential reversal downward.
Tweezer Bottom
bullishTwo consecutive sessions bottom at almost exactly the same low, showing sellers repeatedly failing at one price and indicating a potential reversal upward.
Three Inside Up
bullishA small up session is contained by the prior down session and a third session then closes above both, confirming selling momentum has stalled and a potential reversal is forming.
Three Inside Down
bearishA small down session is contained by the prior up session and a third session then closes below both, confirming buying momentum has stalled and a potential reversal is forming.
Three Outside Up
bullishAn up session completely covers the prior down session and a third session closes higher still, confirming buyers have taken control and indicating a potential reversal upward.
Educational reference only. This describes what traders conventionally read into the Triple Top 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.