How this site finds its patterns
Every chart on this site is drawn from daily price histories the site keeps itself, for two instruments: Brent crude futures (BZ=F, dollars per barrel) and COMEX gold futures (GC=F, dollars per troy ounce). Each is a stored copy of ten years of daily bars, 7 November 2016 to 5 November 2026, read once from Yahoo Finance on 6 November 2026. A drawn example is a real stretch of that history in which a written rule found the pattern, not an illustration.
What a pattern is on this site
A pattern on this site is not a sketch drawn by hand. It is a shape that a written rule looks for in the stored price history. The rule is the same for every instrument, so a channel found on Brent crude is found by the same test as a channel found on gold. The rule does not care what the pattern is called; it only checks whether the price bars fit the shape.
When a stretch of price only half fits, the rule says no. That is the point. A pattern that needs a line nudged to look right is not shown as an example. The rule keeps the charts honest, because a reader who knows the rule was applied can look at the same history and see the same shape.
Two paragraphs, 70-90 words each, no numbers, describing the written rule and its binary outcome.
Every size in a rule is written in ATR, the average true range of the last 14 sessions, so the test means the same in a quiet year and a wild one, and a pattern counts as formed only when a close completes it: a close outside the channel, below the neckline or beyond the level. A model the rules did not find, the triple top and the triple bottom in this history, gets a page that says so and no chart.
How the history is kept
The charts on this site are not redrawn ideals. They are real stretches of a stored copy of price history: Brent crude futures (2,498 bars after cleaning) and gold futures (2,437). The copy was read once, on 6 November 2026. It is not extended as new closes arrive and no chart is redrawn from a newer copy, so a chart shown today is the chart shown tomorrow, and the date under it says when the source was read.
One cleaning step comes before any search. A bar whose high equals its low carries no trading range; the source prints holidays and some month-end days that way. Such bars are left out of the history before the rules run: 17 on Brent and 77 on gold futures. Left in, they would pass for an inside bar or a flat stretch and distort the ATR that every threshold uses.
Both series are in US dollars. The site draws no naira price, so every level and channel on a chart is a move in dollars, and nothing on the site converts it.
What the site refuses to do
This site does not make signals, targets or scores for how good a pattern looks. It does not say that a wedge is a buy or that a triple top is a sell. It says what a pattern is, where it appears in the price history, and what traders have said it means. It does not turn that into an instruction.
A pattern describes what price has already done. It does not predict what price will do next. The site's job is to explain the pattern in plain words and show it on real history, not to tell a reader what to do with it.
Two paragraphs, 70-90 words each, no numbers, about the refusal to make signals or predictions.