Chart Patterns
Chart Patterns Trading
Julian Vance
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Chart Patterns
Learn classic chart formations and market structures.
Chart patterns describe repeating shapes that price leaves behind as buyers and sellers change hands. This library section covers continuation and reversal formations, how to measure them, where invalidation sits, and how to read the volume and structure that gives a pattern context.
Books on chart patterns
Articles on chart patterns
Chart Patterns9 min read
Double Top Pattern
How a double top forms, how the neckline defines the decision point, how the measured move is calculated and what invalidates the reading.
Julian Vance · Updated 8 Sept 2026
Chart Patterns8 min read
Double Bottom Pattern
The mirror of the double top: two rejected declines, a neckline above them, and the context that separates a base from a pause.
Julian Vance · Updated 8 Sept 2026
Chart Patterns10 min read
Head and Shoulders Pattern
The classic three-peak reversal formation, its sloping neckline, correct measurement, and the inverse version.
Julian Vance · Updated 10 Sept 2026
Chart Patterns8 min read
Bull Flag Pattern
What makes a flag a flag, why pause quality matters more than the drawing, and how traders define the break.
Elena Duarte · Updated 12 Sept 2026
Chart Patterns8 min read
Cup and Handle Pattern
How the rounded base forms, what the handle adds, and why duration and depth ratios matter more than the drawing.
Peter Lindqvist · Updated 14 Sept 2026