Three Inside Up (and Down)
Also called: three inside down
A three-candle confirmation of a harami: a bullish harami followed by a third up candle that closes above the pattern, confirming the reversal.
Three inside up builds on the harami. In a downtrend, a large red candle is followed by a small green candle held inside its body (the harami), and then a third green candle closes above the high of the first — the confirmation a bare harami lacks. The shrinking range then a decisive close shows control passing to buyers.
Its mirror, three inside down, appears after an uptrend: a bearish harami plus a third down candle that closes below the pattern. As always, location matters — a three inside up off support carries more weight than one in the middle of a range.
On StockSetups
StockSetups reads multi-candle reversals like three inside up as confirmations layered onto its chart-pattern setups, folding the candle bias into each signal's dossier rather than trading the candle alone.
Related terms
Get daily signals & real-time alerts.
StockSetups scans ~12,300 US stocks & ETFs after every close and sorts every long setup into four ranked lanes — each with a trade plan — plus an always-on engine firing 35+ real-time intraday alerts. Free for 7 days, cancel in one click.
Start free — 7-day full access →