CDL3BLACKCROWS

Summary

A four-bar pattern: a white candle followed by three consecutive black (down) candles with successively lower closes, each opening inside the prior black's real body. It is a bearish reversal signal. A hit (-100) signals a bearish reversal.

Notes

Does not verify the prior mature uptrend the pattern classically assumes for significance.

Inputs

inOpen — Open price of each bar
inHigh — High price of each bar
inLow — Low price of each bar
inClose — Close price of each bar

Outputs

outInteger — -100 when the bearish pattern is detected, 0 otherwise. Never emits +100

Properties

Numerical Stability: Start-Independent

Display Flags
☐ Overlap Input
✅ Independent Y-Axis i
✅ Candlestick i

Implementation

TA-Lib Definition: cdl3blackcrows.c · cdl3blackcrows.yaml

Native	File
C	`ta_CDL3BLACKCROWS.c`
Rust	`cdl3blackcrows.rs`
Java	`Core_CDL3BLACKCROWS.java`

TA-Lib is also available for Python, R and more using a wrapper.

Aliases

Three Black Crows, 3 Black Crows