What is a triple top?
A triple top is a bearish reversal chart pattern that forms when price tests the same resistance area three times without breaking through.
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The pattern has three highs in the same price area, separated by two pullbacks.
Those pullbacks form horizontal support called the neckline.
Like a triple bottom, this pattern can appear on any timeframe.
How do you recognise it?
A triple top has the following features:
- An uptrend before the pattern appears
- Three highs in the same price area
- Two pullbacks between them that form a clear support level
- A break below the neckline to confirm the pattern
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With a triple top, buying volume often tends to fall from one high to the next.
This shows buyers gradually losing their advantage as control shifts to sellers.
The main difference from a double top is a third test of resistance, which also makes it a rarer pattern.
How do you trade a triple top?
- Sell the breakout: enter when a candle closes below the neckline
- Wait for a return to the neckline: after the breakout, price sometimes retests this level before continuing lower
The stop-loss can go above the area of the three highs.
