Descending Triangle Pattern

A flat floor with a falling ceiling — sellers accepting less each time until the support gives way.

Bearish Continuation pattern 23 stocks showing it now Scanned 2026-10-16

📊 Stocks forming a descending triangle right now

Timeframe All Daily Weekly · State All Forming Broken out ↑ Broken down ↓

Showing 23 of 23. Trigger is the price a daily close must clear for the pattern to complete; Target is the measured move it projects, marked ≈ while the break has not happened yet.

Stock	TF	State	CMP	Trigger	Away	Target	Touches
VSTINDVST Industries Limited	Daily	Bearish	₹201.86	₹200.00	0.9%	≈₹175.00 (-13%)	4
MRFMRF Limited	Weekly	Bearish	₹122,790.00	₹120,717.19	1.7%	≈₹100,553.61 (-18%)	7
BIRLACORPNBirla Corporation Limited	Daily	Bearish	₹805.40	₹789.95	1.9%	≈₹653.87 (-19%)	4
VRLLOGVRL Logistics Limited	Daily	Bearish	₹280.50	₹274.03	2.3%	≈₹239.58 (-15%)	7
TIMETECHNOTime Technoplast Limited	Daily	Bearish	₹179.50	₹174.68	2.7%	≈₹148.36 (-17%)	6
CIEINDIACIE Automotive India Limited	Daily	Bearish	₹377.20	₹366.90	2.7%	≈₹303.51 (-20%)	4
UJJIVANSFBUjjivan Small Finance Bank Limited	Weekly	Bearish	₹63.25	₹61.04	3.5%	≈₹45.60 (-28%)	8
RAILTELRailtel Corporation Of India Limited	Weekly	Bearish	₹255.40	₹246.45	3.5%	≈₹161.05 (-37%)	4
CANFINHOMECan Fin Homes Limited	Daily	Bearish	₹732.15	₹700.00	4.4%	≈₹545.66 (-25%)	6
DABURDabur India Limited	Daily	Bearish	₹385.00	₹368.05	4.4%	≈₹275.91 (-28%)	7
ULTRACEMCOUltraTech Cement Limited	Daily	Bearish	₹10,907.00	₹10,410.39	4.6%	≈₹7,781.47 (-29%)	6
JKCEMENTJK Cement Limited	Daily	Bearish	₹4,923.00	₹4,695.83	4.6%	≈₹3,878.09 (-21%)	7
CRISILCRISIL Limited	Daily	Bearish	₹4,547.90	₹4,337.35	4.6%	≈₹3,727.29 (-18%)	6
POONAWALLAPoonawalla Fincorp Limited	Weekly	Bearish	₹448.95	₹427.50	4.8%	≈₹320.93 (-29%)	6
CGPOWERCG Power and Industrial Solutions Limited	Weekly	Bearish	₹846.00	₹803.37	5.0%	≈₹641.50 (-24%)	8
LICILife Insurance Corporation Of India	Daily	Bearish	₹397.75	₹377.34	5.1%	≈₹312.28 (-21%)	7
ACUTAASAcutaas Chemicals Limited	Weekly	Bearish	₹3,206.00	₹3,032.86	5.4%	≈₹2,323.10 (-28%)	6
360ONE360 ONE WAM LIMITED	Daily	Bearish	₹1,075.00	₹1,008.00	6.2%	≈₹834.70 (-22%)	5
ATULAtul Limited	Daily	Bearish	₹6,196.50	₹5,798.00	6.4%	≈₹4,544.07 (-27%)	5
FORCEMOTFORCE MOTORS LTD	Weekly	Bearish	₹17,700.00	₹16,465.78	7.0%	≈₹12,564.03 (-29%)	6
AVANTELAvantel Limited	Weekly	Bearish	₹151.61	₹138.80	8.4%	≈₹100.01 (-34%)	7
NUVOCONuvoco Vistas Corporation Limited	Weekly	Bearish	₹341.15	₹309.64	9.2%	≈₹244.87 (-28%)	6
FEDFINAFedbank Financial Services Limited	Weekly	Bearish	₹161.86	₹140.06	13.5%	≈₹106.95 (-34%)	6

📖 What a descending triangle is

Price bounces off nearly the same low repeatedly while every rally tops out lower than the one before. A horizontal line under the lows and a falling line over the highs close together to the right.

Why it forms

A standing bid holds the floor, but sellers keep cutting their asking price to hit it. Each lower high says the buyers who were willing to pay up have gone. When the bid is filled or pulled, price drops through the floor.

🎯 Trigger

A daily close below the flat support line, usually with a clear pickup in volume.

📏 Target

Take the height of the triangle at its widest and project that distance down from the breakdown level.

🛑 Invalidation

A close back above the falling resistance line, which says the sequence of lower highs has ended.

🖼 Example on a live chart

VSTIND — Daily

Forming

VSTIND descending triangle pattern on daily candles, with the pattern boundaries and breakout level drawn

The shaded band is the formation. On tops and bottoms the indigo line traces the shape itself — up into the left shoulder, over the head, and away from the right — and the dashed line is the neckline it has to break; on triangles, wedges and channels the two solid boundaries are the pattern. Triangle markers are the swing highs and lows those lines were fitted through, and the dash-dot line is the measured-move target once the pattern has broken.

❓ Descending Triangle FAQ

Is a descending triangle always bearish?

It leans bearish, and that is how it is usually traded, but it is not a rule. In a strong uptrend a descending triangle often resolves upward as a pause rather than a top. The flat support breaking is what makes it bearish, not the shape alone.

What is the difference between a descending triangle and a falling wedge?

A descending triangle has a FLAT lower boundary and a falling upper one. A falling wedge has BOTH boundaries falling, with the upper falling faster. The descending triangle is bearish; the falling wedge is usually bullish.

How reliable is a descending triangle?

It is more reliable when the flat support has been tested at least three times and the breakdown comes on heavy volume. A break on thin volume is often recovered within a few sessions.

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Educational only. Prepared with AI assistance and reviewed by our editors; still check prices and levels yourself. Not investment advice.

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.