Chart-pattern catalog

Nocterm detects 90+ chart patterns - from the classic double tops and head-and-shoulders to channels, flags, triangles, and modern market-structure events like breaks of structure, liquidity sweeps, order blocks, and fair-value gaps. Every one of them is read through the dual lens, so each pattern carries both its textbook reading and its measured play.

Where: Settings ▸ PatternsTier: Trader

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A chart with several detected patterns drawn on it - a flag, a triangle, and a break of structure

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Overview

The catalog spans four families. Bullish and Bearish patterns are the directional textbook shapes. Bidirectional patterns resolve either way and signal that a move is coming, not which. Market-structure patterns track how price is making and breaking its own highs and lows. And a set of data-mined patterns are statistical edges surfaced from backtests rather than the textbook. A standalone falling knife rounds it out.

Because every pattern is graded through both lenses, the same shape can fire as a Classic reading, a Reclassified play, or both. See the dual-lens system for how that works.

Bullish

Pattern	Reads as
Double bottom	Reversal up off a retested low
Inverse head & shoulders	Reversal up after a lower-low trap
Ascending channel	Up-trend continuation between rising rails
Bull flag	Brief pause, then continuation up
Cup & handle	Rounded base, breakout up on the handle
Measured move up	Continuation leg matching the prior up-leg

Bearish

Pattern	Reads as
Double top	Reversal down off a retested high
Head & shoulders	Reversal down after a higher-high trap
Bear flag	Brief pause, then continuation down
Rounding top	Slow roll-over from up to down
Measured move down	Continuation leg matching the prior down-leg

Bidirectional

Pattern	Reads as
Rectangle	Range - break either way
Symmetrical triangle	Coil - expansion either way
Broadening formation	Widening swings - instability either way

Market structure

Pattern	Reads as
Break of structure	Trend confirmation - a new high or low in trend
Change of character	First sign the trend may be turning
Liquidity sweep	A stop-run beyond a level, then reversal
Donchian breakout	Price clears its N-bar high or low
Support / resistance break & bounce	A level gives way, or holds and rejects
Order block	The candle a move originated from, revisited
Fair value gap	An imbalance gap price tends to revisit

Data-mined

Pattern	Reads as
Volatility expansion / contraction	Range widening or coiling tight
Close-at-high reversal	A close at the extreme that tends to fade
Gap-up exhaustion	An over-extended gap that runs out of buyers
Climax reversal	A blow-off move that snaps back
Range-low bounce	A bounce off the bottom of an established range
Falling knife	A fast, near-vertical drop

Tip

You don’t trade all 90+ at once. Switch off the families you don’t watch in Settings ▸ Patterns so the feed stays focused on the setups you actually trade.

Caution

A detected pattern is a candidate, not a trade. Read it against its dual-lens play and the graded odds before you act on it.

Related

• The dual-lens system - how each pattern gets a Classic and a Reclassified reading.
• Candlestick patterns - the 24 single-to-triple candle formations.
• How detection works - how these shapes are found and graded.