Written and copyright © 2005-2013 by Thomas N. Bulkowski. All rights reserved.
This is an alphabetical listing of chart patterns that shows the performance rank of each
pattern by its average rise or decline and failure rate. Ties are allowed. A rank of 1 is best (highest
post breakout rise or decline, or lowest failure rate). N/A means the chart pattern uses a different
method to gauge performance than the other chart patterns (usually the measure from the breakout to the swing high or
swing low, not to the highest high or lowest low before a trend change). Thus, a performance comparison would be
unfair and meaningless.
| Chart Pattern | Average Rise or
Decline Rank | Breakeven Failure
Rate Rank |
| Broadening Bottoms, down breakout | 9 | 14 |
| Broadening Bottoms, up breakout | 19 | 10 |
| Broadening Formations, Right-Angled and Ascending, down breakout | 9 | 17 |
| Broadening Formations, Right-Angled and Ascending, up breakout | 17 | 11 |
| Broadening Formations, Right-Angled and Descending, down breakout | 9 | 12 |
| Broadening Formations, Right-Angled and Descending, up breakout | 18 | 15 |
| Broadening Tops, down breakout | 9 | 16 |
| Broadening Tops, up breakout | 17 | 13 |
| Broadening Wedges, Ascending, down breakout | 7 | 9 |
| Broadening Wedges, Ascending, up breakout | 9 | 2 |
| Broadening Wedges, Descending, down breakout | 4 | 7 |
| Broadening Wedges, Descending, up breakout | 14 | 6 |
| Bump-and-Run Reversal Bottoms, up breakout | 9 | 2 |
| Bump-and-run Reversal Tops, down breakout | 5 | 3 |
| Cup-with-Handle, Inverted, down breakout | 8 | 9 |
| Cup-with-Handle, up breakout | 13 | 5 |
| Diamond Bottoms, down breakout | 3 | 8 |
| Diamond Bottoms, up breakout | 11 | 4 |
| Diamond Tops, down breakout | 3 | 4 |
| Diamond Tops, up breakout | 19 | 10 |
| Double Bottoms, Adam & Adam, up breakout | 12 | 5 |
| Double Bottoms, Adam & Eve, up breakout | 10 | 5 |
| Double Bottoms, Eve & Adam, up breakout | 12 | 4 |
| Double Bottoms, Eve & Eve, up breakout | 7 | 4 |
| Double Tops, Adam & Adam, down breakout | 5 | 6 |
| Double Tops, Adam & Eve, down breakout | 6 | 12 |
| Double Tops, Eve & Adam, down breakout | 9 | 11 |
| Double Tops, Eve & Eve, down breakout | 6 | 9 |
| Flags, down breakout | N/A | 1 |
| Flags, High and Tight, up breakout | 1 | 1 |
| Flags, up breakout | N/A | 4 |
| Gaps | N/A | N/A |
| Head-and-Shoulders Bottoms, Complex, up breakout | 8 | 4 |
| Head-and-Shoulders Bottoms, up breakout | 9 | 3 |
| Head-and-Shoulders Tops, Complex, down breakout | 1 | 2 |
| Head-and-Shoulders Tops, down breakout | 2 | 2 |
| Horn Bottoms, up breakout | 12 | 9 |
| Horn Tops, down breakout | 3 | 5 |
| Islands Reversals, down breakout | 7 | 15 |
| Islands Reversals, up breakout | 20 | 14 |
| Islands, Long, down breakout | 2 | 3 |
| Islands, Long, up breakout | 16 | 11 |
| Measured Move Down | N/A | N/A |
| Measured Move Up | N/A | N/A |
| Pennants, down breakout | N/A | 2 |
| Pennants, up breakout | N/A | 2 |
| Pipe Bottom, up breakout | 4 | 5 |
| Pipe Tops, down breakout | 4 | 9 |
| Rectangles Bottoms, down breakout | 10 | 15 |
| Rectangles Bottoms, up breakout | 3 | 10 |
| Rectangles Tops, down breakout | 7 | 9 |
| Rectangles Tops, up breakout | 8 | 9 |
| Rounding Bottoms, up breakout | 5 | 5 |
| Rounding Tops, down breakout | 5 | 10 |
| Rounding Tops, up breakout | 10 | 9 |
| Scallops, Ascending and Inverted, up breakout | 5 | 4 |
| Scallops, Ascending, down breakout | 10 | 19 |
| Scallops, Ascending, up breakout | 16 | 10 |
| Scallops, Descending, down breakout | 7 | 13 |
| Scallops, Descending, up breakout | 21 | 16 |
| Scallops, Inverted and Descending, down breakout | 6 | 8 |
| Three Falling Peaks, down breakout | 7 | 10 |
| Three Rising Valleys, up breakout | 6 | 5 |
| Triangles, Ascending, down breakout | 5 | 9 |
| Triangles, Ascending, up breakout | 12 | 12 |
| Triangles, Descending, down breakout | 8 | 14 |
| Triangles, Descending, up breakout | 2 | 7 |
| Triangles, Symmetrical, down breakout | 7 | 11 |
| Triangles, Symmetrical, up breakout | 16 | 9 |
| Triple Bottoms, up breakout | 10 | 4 |
| Triple Tops, down breakout | 5 | 8 |
| Wedges, Falling, down breakout | 9 | 13 |
| Wedges, Falling, up breakout | 15 | 11 |
| Wedges, Rising, down breakout | 10 | 18 |
| Wedges, Rising, up breakout | 18 | 8 |
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