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Wedge Pattern

A wedge is a converging pattern of lower highs and lower lows (falling) or higher highs and higher lows (rising), breaking with trend or against it.

Quick answer

A wedge is a converging pattern of trendlines that compresses price before a breakout. Falling wedges tend to break up, rising wedges down, and the breakout confirms it.

Definition

A wedge is a chart pattern where two converging trendlines trap price: a falling wedge slopes down with lower highs and lower lows, a rising wedge slopes up with higher highs and higher lows. Falling wedges inside a broader uptrend usually resolve upward; rising wedges inside a downtrend usually resolve downward, though wedges can also act as reversal patterns at extremes. The breakout direction confirms the pattern; until then price is compressing inside the wedge.

How It Works

  • Falling wedge: lower highs and lower lows converging downward
  • Rising wedge: higher highs and higher lows converging upward
  • Breakout direction decides the trade

Trading Tips

1

Trade the breakout of the wedge trendline, ideally with volume

2

Wedge targets are often the height of the pattern projected from the breakout

3

Wedges at market extremes can mark reversals - check the context

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