How to actually use this page
Two things separate traders who find candlestick patterns useful from traders who find them noise, and neither is memorising more shapes.
The first is context. A hammer and a hanging man are drawn identically. A morning star and an evening star are mirror images. What separates each pair is only what came before it, which means a pattern spotted without the preceding trend is not half an answer, it is no answer. Every entry below says exactly where on a chart it has to appear.
The second is what would prove it wrong. Every pattern here names the price that invalidates it, because a read you cannot falsify is a feeling. That is the same discipline the Chartix app applies to a chart you photograph: it names the setup, the level that confirms it, and the level that ends it.
The cheat sheet
All 18 patterns at a glance, grouped by what the traditional reading points to. Each drawing uses the pattern's real open, high, low and close proportions, so what you see here is what you are looking for on a chart. Tap any one for the rules, the reasoning, and the honest caveats.
Patterns that point up 7
These form after a decline and describe selling pressure failing. None of them is a reason to act on its own: each one names what would have to happen next for the read to hold.
Patterns that point down 8
These form after an advance and describe demand failing to defend a high. The shapes repeat constantly, so where they appear on the chart matters more than the shape itself.
Patterns that take their meaning from context 3
These make no directional claim of their own. Most are indecision candles whose value is contextual, ordinary inside a range and meaningful at the end of a long trend; the marubozu is the exception, taking its direction from whatever trend it appears in.
What a candlestick can and cannot tell you
A candlestick pattern is a compressed record of who won a session and by how much. That is genuinely useful information and it is also all it is. It carries no knowledge of earnings, of a funding rate, of a central bank meeting tomorrow morning, or of the size of the position someone is about to unwind.
Read that way, patterns are a way to be specific instead of vague. Instead of thinking a chart looks weak, you can say that price rejected the same high twice in consecutive sessions and that a close above it would end the argument. That is a falsifiable statement, which is the only kind worth acting on.
What patterns are not is a prediction. The literature they come from, going back to Japanese rice traders in the 18th century, treats them as evidence about the balance of pressure, weighed alongside everything else on the chart. Every page in this library keeps that framing, including a section on where each pattern reliably fools people.
Where to start
If you are new to reading candles, start with how to read a stock chart, which covers what the four prices mean and how timeframes change the picture, then come back here. If you already read charts and want to sharpen one thing, start with the single-candle reversals: the hammer and its opposite twin the hanging man teach the context lesson faster than anything else in the library.