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Best suited for: day trading and swing trading.
A triple bottom forms when price tests a similar support area three times and cannot stay below it. It is a repeated-support structure that needs reclaim, resistance, and volume review.
What The Structure Looks Like
A triple bottom usually includes:
- Three tests near a similar support area.
- Bounces between the tests.
- A resistance or reclaim area above.
- Repeated defense of support.
- Possible reclaim, rejection, or later breakdown.
What It Usually Represents
The pattern can represent repeated failure to break support. It may also show a wider range, especially if price cannot reclaim resistance above the support tests.
Where Traders Force It
Traders force triple bottoms when the lows are not near the same area, when price has not reclaimed anything meaningful, or when they ignore a weak third bounce.
What Confirms Or Weakens It
The read strengthens when support holds repeatedly, reclaim behavior improves, and volume supports the next test above the range.
The read weakens when each bounce gets weaker, resistance rejects again, or support eventually breaks.
How It Fails
A triple bottom fails when price loses the support area, reclaims only briefly, or stays trapped under resistance after the third support test.
How To Review It After The Trade
Review whether support was clear and whether the pattern had more than just three similar lows.
- Were the three tests near a meaningful support zone?
- Did price reclaim a useful area after the third test?
- Did volume improve or fade?
- Was resistance above too close?
- Where did the read fail?
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Key Takeaway
A triple bottom is repeated support plus reclaim behavior. It is useful only when support, resistance, volume, and failure behavior are clear.