Rising/Falling Three Methods (CDLRISEFALL3METHODS)

Summary

A five-candle continuation pattern: a long candle, three small counter-color candles that stay partly within the first candle's high-low range, then a long same-color candle that resumes the trend. Bullish (rising) or bearish (falling) continuation signal.

Notes

Only the three-small-candle variant is detected; the classic pattern allowing two or more small candles is not supported.
The middle candles need only partially overlap the first candle's range, not be fully contained within it.
The prior trend the continuation reading assumes is not verified.
Bulkowski's testing found Rising Three Methods continues 74% of the time (102 examples out of 4.7M candle lines) and Falling Three Methods continues 71% of the time (just 64 examples) — both act as classically labeled, but Bulkowski flags the samples as too thin to trust: Falling Three Methods is so rare he omitted its statistics from his book entirely. (thepatternsite.com)

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 candle 1 is white (rising/bullish continuation), -100 when candle 1 is black (falling/bearish continuation), 0 otherwise. Sign = 100 * color of candle 1

Output Values

Value	Meaning
-100	Falling Three Methods: candle 1 is black — bearish continuation
0	No pattern
100	Rising Three Methods: candle 1 is white — bullish continuation

Properties

Numerical Stability: Start-Independent


☐ Overlap Input
✅ Independent Y-Axis i
✅ Candlestick i
☐ Can Output NaN or ±Inf
☐ Identity at Period 1

Implementation

TA-Lib Definition: cdlrisefall3methods.c · cdlrisefall3methods.yaml

Native	File
C	`ta_CDLRISEFALL3METHODS.c`
Rust	`cdlrisefall3methods.rs`
Java	`Core_CDLRISEFALL3METHODS.java`

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

Aliases

Rising/Falling Three Methods, Rising Three Methods, Falling Three Methods