Where our information comes from
Our candlestick and chart-reading guides are built from the standard technical-analysis literature: Steve Nison's Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques for the formation rules and traditional readings, Thomas Bulkowski's Encyclopedia of Candlestick Charts and thepatternsite.com for how each pattern is defined and where it misleads, and John Murphy's Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets for trend, support and resistance, and volume. Each pattern page names the work its rules follow. The drawings are not sketches: every candle is rendered from real open, high, low and close values chosen to match the formation rules, so what you see is what the rule describes.
How we use AI
We use AI to help draft and organise content, but it never originates the rules. Formation criteria, traditional readings and the caveats come from the sources above. AI helps summarise and explain them, and a person checks each pattern page against the literature before it is indexed; the claim-by-claim ledger for the pattern library is kept in the repository alongside the dataset.
What the analysis does not claim
Nothing on this site or in the app is a forecast, a recommendation, or a trading signal. A candlestick pattern is evidence about the balance of buying and selling in the sessions it covers, and that is all it is. We do not publish success rates for patterns, because the published figures vary widely by market, timeframe and the exact definition used, and quoting one without its conditions would mislead. Every read on this site names the price that would prove it wrong, and the decision is always yours.
Corrections
We want to get this right. If you spot an error, tell us and we'll review it against the sources and update the guide.