Candlestick Pattern Quiz

This candlestick pattern quiz tests written descriptions of candle shapes and their context. Choose an answer to reveal the correct choice and explanation, then continue to the results. It is a fixed text quiz, so you do not need a chart, ticker or price data. The score measures answers to these questions; it does not establish a trading win rate or certify that you can predict a market move.

What happens when you take the quiz

There are 12 questions. Select an option and the current question reveals its answer immediately. Your selection is then locked for that attempt. Use Next to move on and See Results after the final question. The result page lists the questions and gives the correct answer for each missed item.

Retake starts the same question set again. There is no difficulty selector, timed round, random chart generation or stored progress history in this quiz. Repeating it can help you revisit definitions, but remembering the answer order is different from recognising a formation in an unfamiliar chart.

The questions cover hammer and shooting-star shapes, doji, engulfing patterns, morning and evening stars, marubozu, three white soldiers, harami and context. Some questions ask for a name; others ask what a description conventionally suggests. Read the wording before deciding which skill is being tested.

Separate the candle body from its wicks

The real body, the solid part of a candle, spans the opening and closing prices. The upper wick runs from the higher of open and close to the high. The lower wick runs from the low to the lower of open and close. A candle’s total range includes both wicks and its body.

A candle does not tell you the exact sequence of every price traded inside its time interval. It records the open, high, low and close. Green and red are common display colours, but chart settings can change them. Use the actual open-close relationship rather than colour alone. The candlestick chart guide covers these building blocks.

A worked candle example

Imagine a fictional completed candle after a downtrend. It opens at ₹202, reaches a high of ₹204, falls to a low of ₹194 and closes at ₹204. Those are made-up prices, not a claim about a real stock or index.

• Real body = ₹204 − ₹202 = ₹2.
• Lower shadow = ₹202 − ₹194 = ₹8.
• Lower-shadow-to-body ratio = 8 / 2 = 4.
• The close equals the high, so the upper shadow is zero.

The small body at the top and long lower shadow fit the hammer geometry used in the quiz. The assumed downtrend matters to the name. The same broad shape after an uptrend is commonly called a hanging man. Neither name tells you what the next candle must do.

These measurements are a separate learning example; the quiz has no price-entry calculator. If you use the candlestick pattern identifier, read its input requirements and limitations before expecting it to evaluate multi-candle context.

Pattern pairs that are easy to confuse

Doji describes a near match between open and close. It does not automatically mean price will reverse upward or downward. For engulfing questions, identify which candle comes first, whether the later body contains it, and whether the prior trend fits the reversal context.

Long upper and lower shadows, also called wicks, need careful reading. They record a wide trading range around the body. Descriptions about buyers or sellers express an interpretation of that price action; they are not direct measurements of every participant’s intent.

How the score is calculated

For an illustrative result of 9 correct answers out of 12, the score is 9 / 12 × 100 = 75%. The quiz uses a 70% pass mark, so that fictional result passes. It rounds the final percentage and shows a level label alongside the correct-answer count.

Passed, Advanced and similar labels refer to this question set. They are not professional qualifications. A higher retake score can reflect memory as well as understanding. To review a missed question, write down the exact feature you overlooked: body position, shadow length, candle order or preceding trend.

Recognition and trading outcomes are different

A formation can satisfy its definition and still be followed by a move in the other direction. Waiting for later price action changes the information available, but no universal improvement in trading reliability is established by this quiz. Any trading method needs its own explicit rules and evidence.

When examining charts outside the quiz, separate what was visible at the time from what became clear afterward. Record whether the candle was completed and what would invalidate your interpretation. That helps avoid labelling every successful past reversal while ignoring failed examples.

OneTradeJournal lets you write manual trade notes, including strategy, mistakes and plan deviation. You can record why you named a pattern without claiming that the pattern caused the trade outcome. To practise a different subject, use the options trading quiz.

Candlestick quiz questions

Sources

• CME Group: Chart types: candlestick, line, bar (checked 15 October 2026).
• Zerodha Varsity: Hammer and hanging man (checked 15 October 2026).
• Zerodha Varsity: Spinning tops and doji (checked 15 October 2026).
• Zerodha Varsity: Engulfing patterns (checked 15 October 2026).
• OneTradeJournal: Candlestick Pattern Quiz (checked 15 October 2026).