Bulkowski’s Alphabetical Chart Pattern Rank

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This is an alphabetical listing of chart patterns that shows the performance rank of each chart pattern by its average rise or decline and failure rate. Ties are allowed. A rank of 1 is best (highest postbreakout rise or decline, or lowest failure rate). N/A in the list below 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. For more information see the book Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns, Second Edition and the following...

Bull Market Chart Patterns

Chart Pattern	Average Rise or Decline Rank	Break even 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