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.

Chart

Reference data (CSV) · Chart (SVG)

Chart metadata i

Outputs

outInteger: pattern_bull_bear · zero · positive · negative

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 and Falling Three Methods 71%, both as classically labeled, but he flags both samples as too thin to trust and left Falling Three Methods out of his book. (thepatternsite.com)
Rare: a few years of one symbol's daily bars may show none. Bulkowski ranks Rising Three Methods 88th and Falling Three Methods 91st of 103 patterns by how often they occur (rising, falling), and it fires 12 times in about 16,000 daily crypto bars.

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

What candlestick values mean: Candlestick Outputs. The function's flags declare which values it can return: rW7.

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
☐ Display Shift


☐ Can Output NaN or ±Inf
☐ Identity at Period 1
☐ Uses Transcendental
☐ Input Must Be Positive

Example

#include <stdio.h>
#include <ta_libc.h>

int n = 252;
double open[252]; /* your data, oldest first */
double high[252]; /* your data, oldest first */
double low[252]; /* your data, oldest first */
double close[252]; /* your data, oldest first */
int out[252];
int outBegIdx, outNBElement;

TA_Initialize();
TA_CDLRISEFALL3METHODS( 0, n - 1, open, high, low, close, &outBegIdx, &outNBElement, out );
printf( "%d values from bar %d; last out = %d\n", outNBElement, outBegIdx, out[outNBElement - 1] );

Rust

use ta_lib::Core;

let open = vec![0.0; 252]; // your data, oldest first
let high = vec![0.0; 252]; // your data, oldest first
let low = vec![0.0; 252]; // your data, oldest first
let close = vec![0.0; 252]; // your data, oldest first
let mut out = vec![0i32; 252];

let core = Core::new();
let range = core.cdlrisefall3methods(0, open.len() - 1, &open, &high, &low, &close,
                                     &mut out)?;
println!("{} values from bar {}; last out = {}", range.count, range.beg_idx, out[range.count - 1]);

Java

import io.github.talib.Core;
import io.github.talib.OutRange;

double[] open = new double[252]; // your data, oldest first
double[] high = new double[252]; // your data, oldest first
double[] low = new double[252]; // your data, oldest first
double[] close = new double[252]; // your data, oldest first
int[] out = new int[252];

Core core = Core.DEFAULT;
OutRange r = core.cdlrisefall3methods(0, open.length - 1, open, high, low, close, out);
System.out.println(r.count() + " values from bar " + r.begIdx() + "; last out = " + out[r.count() - 1]);

using System;
using TALib;

var open = new double[252]; // your data, oldest first
var high = new double[252]; // your data, oldest first
var low = new double[252]; // your data, oldest first
var close = new double[252]; // your data, oldest first
var outInteger = new int[252];

var core = Core.Default;
OutRange r = core.Cdlrisefall3methods(0, open.Length - 1, open, high, low, close, outInteger);
Console.WriteLine($"{r.Count} values from bar {r.BegIdx}; last outInteger = {outInteger[r.Count - 1]}");

TypeScript

import { cdlrisefall3methods } from 'ta-lib';

const open = new Float64Array(252); // your data, oldest first
const high = new Float64Array(252); // your data, oldest first
const low = new Float64Array(252); // your data, oldest first
const close = new Float64Array(252); // your data, oldest first

const { begIdx, values } = cdlrisefall3methods({ open, high, low, close });
console.log(values.length + ' values from bar ' + begIdx + '; last values = ' + values[values.length - 1]);

Implementation

Added in 0.4.0.

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

Native	File
C	`ta_CDLRISEFALL3METHODS.c`
Rust	`cdlrisefall3methods.rs`
Java	`Core_CDLRISEFALL3METHODS.java`
C#	`Core_CDLRISEFALL3METHODS.cs`
TypeScript	`cdlrisefall3methods.ts`

Python: talib.CDLRISEFALL3METHODS, see ta-lib-python.

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

Aliases

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