Candlestick chart patterns

Bearish Counter-Attack Lines
Bearish Engulfing Pattern
Bearish Harami
Bearish Hikkake Pattern
Bearish Multi-Harami Pattern
Bearish Separating Lines
Bearish Star
Belt hold line (Marubozu)
Belt-Hold line-Yorikiri-Bearish Pattern
Belt-Hold line-Yorikiri-Bullish Pattern
Bullish Counter-Attack Lines
Bullish Engulfing Pattern
Bullish Harami
Bullish Hikkake Pattern
Bullish Kicker Candlestick Pattern
Bullish Multi-Harami Pattern
Bullish Separating Lines
Bullish Star Pattern
Butterfly Doji
Channels
Coiling Inside Bar
Cup and Handle
Dark Cloud Cover Pattern
Doji Pattern
Doji Star Candlestick Pattern
Double Inside Bar
Downward Gap Tasuki
Flags and Pennants
Gravestone Doji
Hammer & Hanging man Pattern
Head and Shoulders and Inverted Head and Shoulders
Inverted Hammer & Shooting Star Pattern
Ladder Bottom
Ladder Top
Long-legged Doji
Mat-Hold Pattern
Mega Bearish Engulfing
Mega Bullish Engulfing
Multi Inside Bar
Negative Bias Candle
Piercing Pattern
Positive Bias Candle
Raindrop
Rickshaw-man Doji
Rounding Bottom
Side-by-side Green lines - Bearish
Side-by-side Green lines - Bullish
The Evening Star
The Falling Three Pattern
The Morning Star
The Rising Three
Three Advancing Soldiers
Three Black Crows Pattern
Three Inside Out Pattern - Bearish
Three Inside Out Pattern - Bullish
Three Line Strike Pattern - Bearish
Three Line Strike Pattern - Bullish
Three Outside Up Pattern - Bearish
Three Outside Up Pattern - Bullish
Three River Bottom Pattern
Trend Angles: 45 Degree Trendline
Trendlines
Triangles
Upside Gap Two Crows
Upward Gap Tasuki
Wedges: Rising and Falling Wedges
Windows

Ladder Top

 

Latter Top is not very common but an interesting trend reversal formation.

Imagine four consecutive bullish candles appearing in the uptrend. There is a series of higher low, higher high and higher closing prices.  The trend and price action are very bullish. In the next session, price opens lower and below the closing price of previous bullish candlestick pattern and closes below the body of the previous candlestick pattern. It turns out to be a significant bearish body candle. This pattern is known as a Ladder top formation.

This pattern indicates that the significant top is in place. The pattern gets negated if price goes above the high price of the fifth candle of the pattern.

Even though this is a bearish reversal pattern, the price action is not very bearish. There is a strong uptrend followed by a bearish candle stick pattern which could be possibly a short-term pullback or a short-term correction. Seek more confirmation and evidence that there is a supply in the ladder top area and that the top is strong.

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