Most candlestick guides are encyclopedias — every pattern in print, no opinion on which actually work. This is the working reference: the patterns Thesis trades, what they signal, and just as importantly, when they fail. Pulled from running the detector live on real markets every hour.
Most pattern lists include continuation patterns — marubozu, three white soldiers, three black crows, rising three methods. These are momentum signals: the trend has just confirmed itself, and the pattern says "expect more of the same." On the timeframes our universe trades, those patterns post-hoc look tradeable but rarely follow through. Our detector still recognizes them; the pre-filter rejects them on entry.
We trade reversals, not continuations. A reversal pattern fires after a multi-candle move and asks "is this the turn?" That's a question the AI reasoning layer can usefully answer with confluence — RSI, regime, news. A continuation pattern fires after a breakout and asks "will the breakout hold?" The answer is mostly noise without a deeper context model than we run.
If continuation patterns start working on different data — different timeframes, calmer regimes, broader universe — we'll re-enable them with sample size. For now, reversals only.
Every page on this list explains a pattern that anyone can spot on a chart. None of that is proprietary, and pattern detection alone has roughly zero edge — the win rate of "trade every bullish engulfing" is close to a coin flip.
What turns a pattern into a tradeable setup is the layer on top: confluence checks (RSI, EMA, news sentiment, market regime), an AI reasoning pass, and an execution layer that handles sizing and exits with discipline. That's what Thesis actually does. The pattern is the trigger, not the trade.
Read more on how the AI layer works or how the system is tuned for small accounts.
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