How this site finds and draws a pattern

Every chart on this site is drawn from daily price histories the site keeps itself, for three instruments: the iShares MSCI Philippines fund (EPHE, dollars per unit), the PLDT American depositary receipt (PHI, dollars per ADR) and COMEX gold futures (GC=F, dollars per troy ounce). Each is a stored copy of ten years of daily bars, 7 November 2016 to 5 November 2026, read once from Yahoo Finance on 6 November 2026. There is no Philippine index in the set: the source did not serve the PSEi, and the pages say so.

What counts as each pattern and what the rule does with a near miss

Each pattern has a written definition that is the same for all three instruments, and every size in it is written in ATR, the average true range of the last 14 sessions: an inside bar needs a mother bar of at least 1.5 ATR and an inside range of at most 60 percent of it; an outside bar needs a range of at least 1.5 ATR; the three-candle patterns need bodies of at least 1 ATR or 0.5 ATR as their rules state. The rule checks the stored price history candle by candle and flags a pattern only when every condition in the definition is met, and only when a close completes it.

A near miss is not a pattern: if a candle's range is almost inside the previous one but not quite, the rule does not flag it. That means an inside bar on gold is found by the same test as an inside bar on the Philippines fund. A model the rules did not find, four of the eight in this history, gets a page that says so and no chart.

How the history is kept

The charts on this site are not illustrations. They are real stretches of a stored copy of price history: the iShares MSCI Philippines fund (2,513 daily bars), the PLDT ADR (2,513) and gold futures (2,437 after cleaning). The copy was read once, on 6 November 2026. It is not extended as new closes arrive and no chart is redrawn from a newer copy; the date under every chart says when the source was read.

One cleaning step comes before any search. A bar whose high equals its low carries no trading range; the source prints some days that way. Such bars are left out of the history before the rules run, 77 on gold futures and none on the fund or the ADR. A reader who compares a gold chart here with a platform's may find a date missing.

A drawn example is one occurrence. The same rule that finds a pattern in the stored history may find it in many other stretches, and some of those occurrences were followed by moves that went the other way. A reader who looks at a chart is looking at one occurrence, not at a track record.

What the site refuses to do: signals, targets and a score for how good a pattern looks

This site does not publish signals. A pattern on a chart is not a recommendation to buy or sell, and it is not a forecast of what price will do next. The site does not compute a target price for a pattern, and it does not assign a probability to a breakout. The site also does not score a pattern by how neat it looks: a pattern that meets the written rule is drawn, and a pattern that does not meet the rule is not drawn, no matter how convincing it appears to the eye. The rule is the only judge.

The site does not claim that its charts are live. The histories were read once and nothing on the site ticks in real time; a chart is a picture of the stored copy as of the date printed under it. The site does not claim that its histories are complete beyond the records it keeps. All three instruments are priced in US dollars: the fund per unit, the ADR per receipt and gold per troy ounce. The Philippine stock exchange index, the PSEi, could not be had from the source, so no local index is drawn. No other instruments are used.