Three Inside Up/down

Three Inside Up/down waits for the harami to prove itself. A long opening body in the trend direction, a smaller counter-colored body contained inside it, then the completion candle: by default a close beyond the first candle's extreme, the strict reading of three inside up/down, here given its first purpose-built detector. Each pattern prints a box, a label and a dashed invalidation level at its far extreme; a later close back through it marks the failed reversal with a cross.

How to Trade the Three Inside Up/down?

• 3 Inside Up: within a decline, a long dark candle, a contained white body, and a third close clearing the first candle's high, a confirmed bullish claim with invalidation at the pattern low.
• 3 Inside Down: the mirror within an advance, invalidated at the pattern high.
• Invalidation cross: a close back through the level negates the confirmed reversal. The cross label and matching alerts make failures as explicit as completions.

Three Inside Up/down Settings

• Completion Rule (default Strict: Close Beyond First Candle's Extreme): the loose option accepts a close beyond the second candle's close.
• Second Candle Color (default Opposite To First Candle): Any Contained Body drops the classical color requirement and accepts dojis.
• Long Body Lookback (default 14) and Long Body Multiplier (default 1.0): the long-first-candle test.
• Decisive Third Candle (default on) with Min Body/Range % (default 30): screens doji-like completion candles.
• Trend Detection (default Moving Average; also Net Price Change or None) with Trend Length (default 50).
• Show Invalidation Level (default on) with Maximum Level Duration (default 50), plus label and box toggles.

Frequently Asked Questions

How is this different from the plain Harami build?

Strict or loose completion?

Does the pattern repaint?