Three White Soldiers: what the pattern requires and where it fails
Three consecutive strong up bars with small wicks — what makes the pattern real momentum versus a stretched, exhausted move.
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Open the chartWhat it measures
Three white soldiers is three consecutive up bars, each opening within the prior bar’s body and closing at a new high with a small upper wick.
It measures sustained, uninterrupted buying across three full bars rather than a single strong move.
How it is calculated
These are the steps Basis performs, verified against the published definition.
- 1
Each of three consecutive bars closes higher than the one before.
- 2
Each bar opens within the real body of the previous bar, not with a large gap up.
- 3
Each bar closes near its own high, leaving a small upper wick — large wicks indicate rejection within the bar and weaken the pattern.
How to read it
- The pattern reads strongest as a continuation confirmation after a base or a shallow pullback, not as a signal to chase after an already-extended run.
- Three increasingly large bodies with shrinking wicks describe accelerating conviction; three similar-sized bodies describe steady, less explosive buying.
Where it misleads
Three strong bars in a row can just as easily be the last leg of a move before exhaustion as the start of a new one — the pattern does not distinguish the two, and needs volume or a location read to tell them apart.
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Updated 2026-08-27 · Educational reference, not financial advice.