Forex glossary
Three Black Crows
Three Black Crows consists of three bearish candles with substantial bodies, progressively lower closes near their lows and opens within the preceding body. It is classically considered after an advance. The pattern describes a declining sequence without identifying participants or guaranteeing further downside.
Illustrative example
How does it work in practice?
Assume an advance is followed by bodies from 110 to 106, 108 to 103 and 105 to 100, closing near their lows. Successive opens lie within prior bodies, forming hypothetical Three Black Crows.
A case to work through
Three declines, different opens
Hypothetically, bodies after a rise are 50→47, 46→43 and 44→40.
- The second open of 46 is below the preceding 47–50 body.
- Although all three bodies are bearish, this classic-pattern condition fails.
What follows? Do not accept the full label solely from three declining bodies.
Example boundary: Body-size and lower-shadow conditions also need assessment.
A useful distinction
Three Black Crows / Three White Soldiers
Three Black Crows has successively lower closes; Three White Soldiers forms the opposite advancing structure.
Check your understanding
Detect missing opening containment in a three-candle structure.
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88
88 lies within 86–90.
Geometry and pattern completion
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Related terms
Sources and documentation
- TA-Lib – ta_CDL3BLACKCROWS
Original OHLC body/shadow detection code and configurable candle thresholds; implementation is not effectiveness evidence.
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