How do you spot a Three White Soldiers candle?

Three consecutive bullish candles with large bodies. Each candle opens inside the body of the previous one. Each candle closes at or near the session high (slight upper shadows).

Is the Three White Soldiers candle a bullish or bearish signal?

A bullish continuation pattern made of 3 candles. Confirmation: self-confirming. Reference success rate 61%. See it yourself on live daily candles for any symbol in the members' technical terminal.

Bullish signal ▲ · pattern 19

Three White Soldiers

Three White Soldiers: three consecutive bullish candles with large bodies. Each candle opens inside the body of the previous one and closes higher, with slight upper shadows showing buyers in control for the whole session.

PATTERN ID

Signal Bullish ▲

Reliability ★★★★☆

Win Rate 61%

Expected move +4–11%

Timeframe Daily

Confirmation Self-confirming

The short answer

What is a Three White Soldiers candle?: Three White Soldiers (Three White Soldiers): three consecutive bullish candles with large bodies. Each candle opens inside the body of the previous one and closes higher, with slight upper shadows showing buyers in control for the whole session.
How do you spot a Three White Soldiers candle?: Three consecutive bullish candles with large bodies. Each candle opens inside the body of the previous one. Each candle closes at or near the session high (slight upper shadows).
Is the Three White Soldiers candle a bullish or bearish signal?: A bullish continuation pattern made of 3 candles. Confirmation: self-confirming. Reference success rate 61%. See it yourself on live daily candles for any symbol in the members' technical terminal. Open the technical terminal →

Pattern illustration

Each soldier opens inside the previous body and closes near the high of the session

How to identify the pattern

Step-by-step checks

Three consecutive bullish candles with large bodies
Each candle opens inside the previous body
Each candle closes at or near the session high (slight upper shadows)
Volume above average, ideally rising across the three days

Trading psychology

The power struggle between buyers and sellers

Three days of orderly buying pressure. In each session the bears try to respond but fail, and the bulls close near the high every time. It points to sustained, coordinated demand, not a one-day bounce.

Outlook and confirmation

Entry conditions and expected price move

Self-confirming, no extra candle needed

A strong momentum pattern with bullish follow-through of 10–14 days. Watch for Overbought readings: when RSI is above 75, a short pullback often follows. Chasing the high of the third candle is a common mistake.

Ideal setting for the pattern

After consolidation

Recommended timeframe: daily

Where to find it on the platform

Technical terminal for members
Shows the daily-timeframe candles for any symbol on the platform's list. You identify the pattern by eye: the terminal does not name it.

How it is traded in practice

Three consecutive green candles, each opening inside the body of the previous one and closing near its high: a disciplined institutional advance, not a burst of excitement. The catch is that the pattern completes after a sizable rise, a third of which is already gone. A pullback right after it is often a cleaner place to look than the third candle, with the stop under the low of the second. The pattern reads better as a sign of a regime change than as an immediate trigger: afterwards, dips tend to get bought and rallies tend not to get sold.

Common mistake

Buying right after the third candle completes: three big candles mean a short-term stretch and a likely pullback that hits a chaser's stop before the move resumes. It is also confused with three green candles of accelerating bodies and long upper shadows. That is a burst of frantic buying, not a disciplined advance, and it often comes before a reversal rather than a continuation.