CDLTRISTAR

Summary

A three-candle pattern of three consecutive doji where the middle doji is a star (its body gaps away from the first). Bullish or bearish reversal signal. +100 = bullish reversal (middle doji gapped down), -100 = bearish reversal (middle doji gapped up).

Notes

• This reversal pattern does not verify the prior trend it classically assumes.

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 (bullish, star gapped down), -100 (bearish, star gapped up), or 0 when no pattern. Both signs are emitted

Properties

Numerical Stability: Start-Independent

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

Implementation

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

Native	File
C	ta_CDLTRISTAR.c
Rust	cdltristar.rs
Java	Core_CDLTRISTAR.java

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

Aliases

Tristar Pattern, Tri-Star

See Also

CDLDOJI · CDLDOJISTAR · CDLMORNINGDOJISTAR · CDLEVENINGDOJISTAR