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Cup and Handle Pattern

A rounded base followed by a shallow drift — a long consolidation that resolves upward.

Bullish Continuation pattern 0 stocks showing it now Scanned 2026-09-01
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📖 What a cup and handle is

Price falls away, rounds out a broad U-shaped bottom, and comes back to the old high (the rim). It then drifts down modestly to form the handle before pushing through.

Why it forms

The cup is patient accumulation — the sharp sellers are long gone by the time the right side is built. The handle shakes out the impatient buyers who bought the recovery, leaving little supply above the rim.

🎯 Trigger

A close above the rim, which is the high on either side of the cup.

📏 Target

Project the depth of the cup up from the rim.

🛑 Invalidation

A handle that retraces more than about a third of the cup, or a close below the handle's low.
❓ Cup and Handle FAQ
What is a cup and handle pattern?
A bullish continuation pattern: a rounded, U-shaped base followed by a small downward drift, then a breakout above the rim. The rounding is essential — a sharp V bottom is a different thing and behaves differently.
How deep should the handle be?
Shallow. A handle deeper than roughly a third of the cup suggests real selling rather than a shakeout, and Flash Finance rejects those rather than label them cup and handle.
How long does a cup and handle take to form?
Weeks to many months. It is one of the slowest patterns to build, which is part of why the breakouts can run — a lot of supply has been worked through.
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How these are found: swing highs and lows are picked out with a percentage ZigZag on daily and weekly candles, and the boundaries are line-fitted through those swings. A formation is only published when the fit is tight, the boundaries are actually touched several times, and the price action stays inside them. The most recent swing is provisional, so a forming pattern can still change shape on the next candle, and patterns whose break already played out are dropped rather than shown as fresh. Levels and targets are the textbook measured moves, not forecasts. This is auto-generated market data, not investment advice.

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