A Head & Shoulders is a bearish reversal chart pattern with three peaks: a higher middle peak (the head) flanked by two lower peaks (the shoulders). A break below the neckline connecting the lows signals a top and a likely move lower.
Follow-through rate — how often price moved in the predicted direction within each window — across 1,576 historical occurrences on 20+ exchanges. Computed July 2026.
| Horizon | Historical win-rate |
|---|---|
| 1 hour | 57% |
| 4 hours | 63% |
| 24 hours | 56% |
| 7 days | 55% |
| Sample size | 1,576 occurrences |
This is a historical follow-through rate, not a trade simulation, and does not guarantee future results. See methodology →
After an uptrend, price forms a left shoulder, a higher head, then a lower right shoulder, with a neckline drawn across the two intervening lows. Declining volume into the head and right shoulder is a classic tell.
Traders short the neckline break, stop above the right shoulder, and target the distance from the head to the neckline projected down from the break.
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Bearish. The standard head and shoulders marks a top; its mirror image, the inverse head and shoulders, marks a bottom and is bullish.
It is among the most-watched reversal patterns and tends to be reliable on a confirmed neckline break with volume. Reliability falls if you anticipate the break before it happens.
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