Three white soldiers pattern
Three white soldiers are three consecutive strong up bars, each closing near its high. The run is difficult to produce by accident and is read as persistent demand rather than a spike.
Three substantial green candles in a row, each one closing near its high. No single bar has to be spectacular, because the claim is the sequence. One strong up day can be a squeeze or a headline. Three consecutive sessions of buyers finishing near the top is a pattern of behaviour: 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 the context filter 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, and the three-white-soldiers scan keeps the list to that case by requiring the close above the 50-day.
The 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. The pattern marks that sustained demand exists and leaves the practical question of entry wide open. That is the doubt the replay on the scan page is built for: a year of prints, 250 sessions, close to close, with brokerage and slippage left out of every number in it.
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 6 Oct 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, and three in a row means demand returned session after session and held to each close. It is read as evidence of a persistent bid.
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, so the pattern confirms demand while handing you the week's worst entry price. Many traders note it and wait for the pause. The replay on the scan page measures that trade-off over 250 close-to-close sessions, costs excluded.