BananaPatterns Risk first, always.

About us

Chart patterns, explained simply.

BananaPatterns is a small, honest place to learn how certain shapes show up again and again in stock charts — explained in plain English, using real examples from Indian companies. We don't give tips or tell you what to buy. We just try to help you understand what you're looking at, at your own pace.

No tips, no hype

No buy-or-sell calls, no promises of quick money — just how one common pattern behaves.

The whole picture

Patterns don't always work. We show the wins and the losses — nothing cherry-picked.

Learning, not advice

A place to learn — not financial advice. We're not registered advisers.

Where to start

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How the pattern worksThe idea, step by step, in plain language.
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How it held up over timeTry the same idea across years of past data and see what happened.
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See it on today's marketWhere these patterns are showing up right now, and how they're unfolding.
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Look up any stockType any listed company and see how its chart compares to the pattern.
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Not financial advice. BananaPatterns is for learning only. We are not SEBI-registered advisers, and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell. Please do your own research and speak to a registered adviser before investing.

The methodology

How the pattern works.

Charts tend to rhyme, because the people behind them behave in similar ways — the same build-up, the same hesitation, again and again. This pattern looks for one of those repeating shapes in a stock's price and volume, and only flags it when the signs line up. No predictions — just a careful reading of what a chart is already showing.

1 · Narrowing it down

From 3,653 stocks to a handful

Each step is the same simple check, applied to the whole market every day — so the same rules decide every time, with no guesswork.

2 · The pattern itself

A leader, coiling, then breaking out

The setup is a volatility contraction: after a strong run, the stock pauses and its swings get tighter and tighter as sellers dry up — energy coiling under a ceiling (the pivot). The trade triggers the moment price clears that ceiling on a surge of volume.

pivot — the ceiling prior uptrend the base — tightening breakout −25% −15% −8% volume: dries up, then expands on breakout

3 · The trade, once it triggers

Cut losers fast, let winners run

Risk is decided before entry — 1.5% of capital per trade. From there it's pure rules: protect first, then give a winner room.

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Buy the breakoutas it pushes through
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Set a safety netauto-sell if it drops ~8%
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Lock in “no loss”once it's up enough
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Ride the trendraise the net as it climbs
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Step offwhen the trend breaks
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It's probabilities, not predictions. BananaPatterns is wrong more often than it's right — it wins on roughly 1 in 3 trades. It works because the few winners are far larger than the many small, capped losses. That asymmetry is the entire edge — and it only shows up over many trades, through real drawdowns.

Live · the method in motion

Every leader, at its stage right now.

The same setup, tracked live through its whole lifecycle — coiling, breaking out, running, and exiting. Shown to teach the method, refreshed after every market close.