Triangles
You will learn to
- Ascending, descending, symmetrical
- Breakout rules and the apex
- What the samples say
Three kinds
- Ascending: flat top, rising lows — buyers keep paying more; usually resolves up.
- Descending: flat bottom, falling highs — usually resolves down.
- Symmetrical: both lines slope inward — the direction comes from the break.
Breakouts
Confirmation is a close outside the triangle (NexusCore requires 0.2 ATR beyond the line). Breaks very close to the apex, where the lines meet, are less reliable — the pattern has run out of room. The tested stop is 1.2 ATR from the entry, because a triangle's "extreme" is far away by then.
✓ What our backtest found
4H, unseen 2024–26: ascending +0.85R (27 trades), descending +0.66R (23), symmetrical +0.41R (29). Encouraging, but each sample is small — only the combined pattern result (+0.24R over 687) is statistically solid.Advertisement
Check yourself
1. An ascending triangle has…
- A flat top and rising lows ✓
- A flat bottom and falling highs
- Two parallel lines
Rising lows against a flat ceiling.
2. Why is the tested stop for triangles 1.2 ATR rather than beyond the pattern?
- Tradition
- The far end of a triangle is often very far from the breakout ✓
- Fees
A stop beyond the whole triangle would make the risk huge.
Terms in this lesson
- Apex
- Where a triangle's lines meet.
- Triangle
- Converging boundaries: ascending, descending or symmetrical.
Practise it on real charts. In the app, this lesson comes with real examples (reveal what happened next), a graded drill and the track test. Open the Academy in NexusCore — free →