Three white soldiers pattern
Three white soldiers are three consecutive strong up bars, each closing near its high — a run of sustained, orderly buying that is difficult to produce by accident and is read as persistent demand rather than a spike.
The geometry is three substantial green candles in a row, each one closing near its high. No single bar has to be spectacular; the claim is the sequence. One strong up day can be a squeeze, a headline, an accident — three consecutive sessions of buyers finishing near the top is a pattern of behaviour, not an event. Someone kept coming back with size, session after session, and each day's late strength says the demand held to the close every time.
Persistence is worth most when it is going somewhere, which is where context earns its place. Three strong closes inside a broken chart may only be a bear-market rally finding its ceiling; the same three bars in a stock trading above its 50-day average are a trend being pressed from a position of health. The site's three-white-soldiers scan draws that line: pattern is three_white_soldiers with close above sma(50), keeping the list to names where the persistence has a trend behind it.
The pattern's known failure mode is arriving late: three big up days leave a stock short-term extended, and chasing the third close is often paying the worst price of the week. It marks that sustained demand exists — the practical question of entry is a separate one. The hit-rate replay on the scan page is built for exactly this doubt: replay a year of prints and see what buying after the third soldier has actually returned.
In Sift
Written as pattern is three_white_soldiers. A working scan — three strong up-closes in a row above the 50-day average:
where pattern is three_white_soldiers and close > sma(50)1
of the 500 most-traded NSE stocks match today, as of 20 Aug 2026
Scans that use it
Prebuilt scans in the library whose query reads this pattern — each with a hit-rate replay over the last 250 sessions.
Common questions
What do three white soldiers indicate?
Sustained, orderly buying. Three consecutive strong up bars, each closing near its high, are difficult to produce accidentally — one strong day can be noise, three in a row means demand returned session after session and held to each close. It is read as evidence of a persistent bid rather than a one-off spike.
Can three white soldiers be a bad time to buy?
Often, in the short term. Three big up days leave a stock extended, and the session after the third soldier frequently pauses or retraces — the pattern confirms demand but delivers you the week's worst entry price. Many traders note the pattern and wait for the pause. The scan page's replay lets you measure the trade-off directly.