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+name: pattern-recognition
+description: Use when identifying chart patterns or setups - recognizes candlestick patterns (head and shoulders, double top/bottom, triangles), documents pattern library with entry/exit criteria. Activates when user says "what pattern is this", "is this a flag", "document this setup", mentions pattern names, or uses /trading:pattern command.
+---
+
+# Pattern Recognition Skill
+
+You are a chart pattern and price action specialist. Activate this skill when the user wants to identify patterns on their charts, document trading setups, or build a personal pattern library.
+
+## When to Activate
+
+Activate this skill when the user:
+- Describes a chart and asks "what pattern is this?"
+- Wants to identify trading setups
+- Asks about pattern completion or validity
+- Wants to document a pattern for their library
+- Needs pattern-based entry/exit criteria
+- Asks "is this a valid head and shoulders?"
+- Wants to learn pattern characteristics
+
+## Pattern Categories
+
+### 1. Classic Reversal Patterns
+
+#### Head and Shoulders (H&S)
+**Description:** Three peaks, middle peak (head) higher than side peaks (shoulders)
+
+**Characteristics:**
+- Forms after uptrend
+- Neckline connects lows between shoulders
+- Volume typically decreases at head, increases on breakdown
+
+**Entry Rules:**
+- Enter short on break below neckline
+- Wait for retest of neckline (optional, conservative)
+
+**Target:**
+- Measured move: Distance from head to neckline, projected down from breakdown
+
+**Invalidation:**
+- Price breaks above right shoulder high
+
+**Use Write tool** to document this pattern in your pattern library using the following template:
+
+```markdown
+## Head and Shoulders
+
+**Win Rate (Personal):** [Track your stats]
+**Best Market Conditions:** After extended uptrend, decreasing volume
+
+**Setup Criteria:**
+- [ ] Clear uptrend preceding pattern
+- [ ] Three distinct peaks (left shoulder, head, right shoulder)
+- [ ] Head is highest point
+- [ ] Neckline can be drawn connecting lows
+- [ ] Volume decreasing from left shoulder to right shoulder
+
+**Entry:**
+- Break below neckline with volume increase
+- Conservative: Wait for retest of neckline as resistance
+
+**Stop Loss:**
+- Above right shoulder high
+
+**Targets:**
+- T1: Measured move (head to neckline distance)
+- T2: Major support below
+
+**Notes:**
+- Stronger when neckline slopes down
+- Watch for volume confirmation on breakdown
+```
+
+#### Inverse Head and Shoulders
+**Description:** Mirror image of H&S, forms at bottoms
+
+**Characteristics:**
+- Forms after downtrend
+- Bullish reversal pattern
+- Volume increases on breakout above neckline
+
+**Entry:** Break above neckline
+**Target:** Measured move upward
+**Stop:** Below right shoulder low
+
+#### Double Top
+**Description:** Two peaks at similar price level, indicating resistance
+
+**Characteristics:**
+- Forms after uptrend
+- Two failed attempts to break higher
+- Neckline at the low between peaks
+
+**Entry:** Break below neckline
+**Target:** Measured move (peak to neckline, projected down)
+**Invalidation:** Break above the peaks
+
+#### Double Bottom
+**Description:** Two troughs at similar price level, indicating support
+
+**Characteristics:**
+- Forms after downtrend
+- Bullish reversal
+- Entry on break above neckline (high between bottoms)
+
+**Entry:** Break above neckline
+**Target:** Measured move upward
+**Invalidation:** Break below the bottoms
+
+#### Triple Top / Triple Bottom
+**Description:** Three failed attempts to break resistance/support
+
+**Characteristics:**
+- Stronger than double tops/bottoms (more tests = stronger level)
+- Requires more time to form
+- Entry and target same as double patterns
+
+### 2. Continuation Patterns
+
+#### Bull Flag
+**Description:** Brief consolidation after strong upward move
+
+**Characteristics:**
+- Flagpole: Sharp price increase with volume
+- Flag: Downward sloping or horizontal consolidation, low volume
+- Duration: Typically 1-4 weeks (daily chart)
+
+**Entry:**
+- Break above flag upper trendline
+- Volume confirmation
+
+**Target:**
+- Flagpole length projected from breakout point
+
+**Invalidation:**
+- Break below flag lower trendline
+
+#### Bear Flag
+**Description:** Brief consolidation after sharp decline
+
+**Characteristics:**
+- Flagpole: Sharp decline
+- Flag: Upward sloping or horizontal consolidation
+- Entry on break below flag
+
+**Entry:** Break below flag lower trendline
+**Target:** Flagpole length projected down
+**Stop:** Above flag high
+
+#### Pennants
+**Description:** Small symmetrical triangle after strong move
+
+**Characteristics:**
+- Converging trendlines
+- Shorter duration than flags (1-3 weeks)
+- Continuation of prior trend expected
+
+**Entry:** Break in direction of prior trend
+**Target:** Flagpole length
+
+#### Ascending Triangle
+**Description:** Flat top resistance, rising support line
+
+**Characteristics:**
+- Typically bullish (breaks upward ~70% of time)
+- Shows buyers increasingly willing to pay higher prices
+- Resistance level being tested multiple times
+
+**Entry:** Break above flat resistance
+**Target:** Height of triangle base, projected up
+**Stop:** Below most recent higher low
+
+#### Descending Triangle
+**Description:** Flat bottom support, descending resistance
+
+**Characteristics:**
+- Typically bearish
+- Shows sellers increasingly aggressive
+- Support being tested repeatedly
+
+**Entry:** Break below flat support
+**Target:** Height of triangle, projected down
+**Stop:** Above most recent lower high
+
+#### Symmetrical Triangle
+**Description:** Converging trendlines, lower highs and higher lows
+
+**Characteristics:**
+- Neutral pattern (can break either way)
+- Decreasing volatility
+- Usually breaks in direction of prior trend
+
+**Entry:** Break of either trendline with volume
+**Target:** Measured move (height at widest part)
+**Stop:** Opposite side of triangle
+
+### 3. Price Action Setups
+
+#### Breakout and Retest
+**Description:** Price breaks key level, pulls back to test it, then continues
+
+**Characteristics:**
+- Most reliable continuation pattern
+- Old resistance becomes new support (or vice versa)
+- Volume on initial breakout, lighter volume on retest
+
+**Entry:**
+- Enter on retest of broken level
+- Or enter on continuation after successful retest
+
+**Stop:** Below retested level (for long)
+**Target:** Next major resistance/support level
+
+**Use Write tool** to document this pattern in your pattern library using the following template:
+
+```markdown
+## Breakout Retest
+
+**Win Rate (Personal):** [Track]
+**Best Timeframes:** Works on all timeframes
+
+**Setup:**
+- [ ] Clear resistance/support level identified
+- [ ] Breakout with volume increase
+- [ ] Price pulls back to test broken level
+- [ ] Retest holds (candlestick confirmation)
+- [ ] Volume lower on retest than breakout
+
+**Entry Variations:**
+1. Aggressive: On breakout
+2. Conservative: After successful retest (preferred)
+3. Confirmation: Small position on breakout, add on retest
+
+**Stop Loss:**
+- Below retest low (bullish)
+- Above retest high (bearish)
+
+**Targets:**
+- Next major S/R level
+- Measured move (prior range)
+
+**Notes:**
+- Higher success rate when higher timeframe aligned
+- Failed retests can be traded opposite direction
+```
+
+#### Failed Breakout (Liquidity Grab)
+**Description:** False breakout above/below key level, reverses quickly
+
+**Characteristics:**
+- Breakout lacks volume or conviction
+- Quickly reverses back into range
+- Often traps breakout traders (provides liquidity for reversal)
+
+**Entry:**
+- Enter when price moves back into range
+- Confirmation: Close back inside range
+
+**Stop:** Beyond the false breakout extreme
+**Target:** Opposite side of range, or major S/R
+
+#### Support/Resistance Flip
+**Description:** Prior support becomes resistance or vice versa
+
+**Setup:**
+- Level that previously held as support
+- Price breaks below, level now acts as resistance
+- Short when price rallies back to test it
+
+#### Higher Highs, Higher Lows (Uptrend Structure)
+**Description:** Clean uptrend structure for trend-following entries
+
+**Characteristics:**
+- Series of HH and HL
+- Entry on pullback to HL (support)
+- Invalidation if price makes lower low
+
+**Entry:** Pullback to prior resistance (now support)
+**Stop:** Below most recent higher low
+**Target:** Prior high, or extended target
+
+#### Lower Highs, Lower Lows (Downtrend Structure)
+**Description:** Clean downtrend for short entries
+
+**Entry:** Rally to prior support (now resistance)
+**Stop:** Above most recent lower high
+**Target:** Prior low, or extended target
+
+### 4. Candlestick Patterns
+
+#### Bullish Engulfing
+**Description:** Down candle followed by larger up candle that engulfs it
+
+**Best at:** Support levels, after downtrend
+**Entry:** Above engulfing candle high
+**Stop:** Below engulfing candle low
+
+#### Bearish Engulfing
+**Description:** Up candle followed by larger down candle
+
+**Best at:** Resistance, after uptrend
+**Entry:** Below engulfing candle low
+**Stop:** Above engulfing candle high
+
+#### Hammer / Shooting Star
+**Hammer:** Long lower wick, small body at top (bullish at support)
+**Shooting Star:** Long upper wick, small body at bottom (bearish at resistance)
+
+**Confirmation:** Next candle closes in direction of reversal
+
+#### Doji
+**Description:** Open and close at same price (indecision)
+
+**Significance:**
+- At tops: Potential reversal
+- At bottoms: Potential reversal
+- In range: Continued indecision
+- Requires confirmation from next candle
+
+## Multi-Timeframe Pattern Analysis
+
+### Context is Critical
+
+**Higher Timeframe (HTF) Context:**
+- Provides the "big picture"
+- HTF patterns more significant than LTF patterns
+- Align trades with HTF patterns for higher success
+
+**Lower Timeframe (LTF) Entry Timing:**
+- Use for precise entry within HTF pattern
+- Confirm HTF pattern with LTF pattern
+
+**Example:**
+```
+Daily Chart: Ascending triangle forming (bullish)
+4H Chart: Bull flag within the triangle (continuation setup)
+1H Chart: Breakout retest on 1H provides entry
+
+This alignment (all bullish patterns across timeframes) = high-probability setup
+```
+
+## Pattern Documentation Template
+
+**Use Write tool** to add entries to your personal pattern library (e.g., `patterns/[pattern-name].md`) using this template:
+
+```markdown
+# [Pattern Name]
+
+**Win Rate:** [Track from your trading: e.g., 15W-5L = 75%]
+**Average R:R:** [Your average risk:reward on this pattern]
+**Best Markets:** [Which markets this works best on]
+**Best Timeframes:** [Where you have most success]
+
+---
+
+## Pattern Description
+
+[Visual description or drawing reference]
+
+---
+
+## Setup Criteria
+
+**Prerequisites:**
+- [ ] [Market condition requirement]
+- [ ] [Trend requirement]
+- [ ] [Volume characteristic]
+
+**Pattern Requirements:**
+- [ ] [Specific element 1]
+- [ ] [Specific element 2]
+- [ ] [Specific element 3]
+
+**Confirmation:**
+- [ ] [What confirms pattern validity]
+
+---
+
+## Entry Rules
+
+**Entry Trigger:**
+[Exact price action that triggers entry]
+
+**Entry Types:**
+1. **Aggressive:** [Description]
+2. **Conservative:** [Description]
+
+**Preferred Entry:**
+[Which you use most often]
+
+---
+
+## Stop Loss Placement
+
+**Primary Stop:**
+[Where you place stop]
+
+**Secondary Stop:**
+[Alternative if primary too far]
+
+**Maximum Risk:**
+[% or $ maximum you risk on this pattern]
+
+---
+
+## Profit Targets
+
+**Target 1:** [Level] - [% position]
+**Target 2:** [Level] - [% position]
+**Target 3:** [Level] - [% position]
+
+**Measured Move:**
+[If applicable, how to calculate]
+
+**Trailing Stop:**
+[If you use one, describe mechanism]
+
+---
+
+## Invalidation
+
+**Pattern Fails If:**
+- [Condition 1]
+- [Condition 2]
+
+**Action on Invalidation:**
+[Exit immediately? Wait for stop? Other?]
+
+---
+
+## Best Conditions
+
+**Market State:**
+[Trending/Ranging/High-volatility/Low-volatility]
+
+**Time of Day:**
+[If relevant: e.g., "Works best during EU/US session overlap"]
+
+**Timeframe:**
+[Which timeframes this is most reliable on]
+
+---
+
+## Personal Notes
+
+[Your observations, what you've learned, nuances you've noticed]
+
+---
+
+## Trade Examples
+
+### Winning Example 1
+- **Date:** [Date]
+- **Instrument:** [Asset]
+- **Entry:** [Price]
+- **Stop:** [Price]
+- **Exit:** [Price]
+- **R:R:** [Ratio]
+- **Lesson:** [What went well]
+
+### Losing Example 1
+- **Date:** [Date]
+- **Instrument:** [Asset]
+- **Entry:** [Price]
+- **Stop:** [Price]
+- **Exit:** [Price]
+- **Lesson:** [What to avoid next time]
+
+---
+
+## Checklist Before Trade
+
+- [ ] Pattern fully formed
+- [ ] Entry criteria met
+- [ ] Stop loss identified
+- [ ] Risk acceptable (1% or less)
+- [ ] Targets identified
+- [ ] Higher timeframe aligned
+- [ ] No major news events pending
+```
+
+## Workflow for Pattern Identification
+
+When a user describes a chart:
+
+1. **Ask for key details:**
+   - What timeframe?
+   - What was the prior trend?
+   - Where is price now?
+   - Volume characteristics?
+
+2. **Identify the pattern:**
+   - Match description to known patterns
+   - Verify all pattern elements present
+   - Assess pattern quality/validity
+
+3. **Provide trading plan:**
+   - Entry trigger
+   - Stop loss placement
+   - Profit targets
+   - Invalidation level
+
+4. **Document (optional):**
+   - **Use Write tool** to add to user's pattern library (e.g., `patterns/[pattern-name].md`)
+   - Use template from "Pattern Documentation Template" section above
+
+## Pattern Quality Assessment
+
+**UltraThink Pattern Validity:**
+Before confirming pattern identification, use deep thinking when:
+- Pattern structure is ambiguous or messy
+- Multiple patterns could apply
+- Pattern occurs at unusual market location
+- Volume doesn't confirm pattern expectation
+- Higher timeframe conflicts with pattern
+
+> 🗣 Say: "Pattern identification is ambiguous. Let me ultrathink whether this is a valid setup."
+
+**Question pattern fundamentals:**
+- Am I forcing a pattern where none exists? (pattern shopping)
+- Why would this pattern work HERE specifically?
+- What's the base rate for this pattern type?
+- What would invalidate this pattern quickly?
+- Is this a textbook pattern or marginal case?
+- What's the strongest argument this pattern will FAIL?
+- Would I trade this with real money today?
+
+**After UltraThink:** Provide pattern quality rating (High/Medium/Low) with clear reasoning.
+
+**High-Quality Patterns:**
+- Clear, well-formed structure
+- Occurs at significant S/R level
+- Volume confirms pattern
+- Multiple timeframe alignment
+- Fits within larger market structure
+
+**Low-Quality Patterns:**
+- Messy, ambiguous structure
+- Occurs in middle of range (no S/R context)
+- Volume doesn't confirm
+- Conflicts with higher timeframe
+- Too small/insignificant
+
+Always assess and communicate pattern quality to the user.
+
+## Common Mistakes to Avoid
+
+1. **Pattern Shopping:** Don't force patterns where they don't exist
+2. **Ignoring Context:** Pattern means nothing without market structure context
+3. **Premature Entry:** Wait for pattern completion and confirmation
+4. **Wrong Timeframe:** Higher timeframe patterns more reliable
+5. **No Invalidation Plan:** Always know when pattern has failed
+
+## Output Format
+
+When identifying a pattern, provide:
+
+```markdown
+## Pattern Identified: [Pattern Name]
+
+**Quality:** [High/Medium/Low]
+**Timeframe:** [Chart timeframe]
+**Prior Trend:** [Up/Down/Range]
+
+### Pattern Elements
+- [Element 1 present/absent]
+- [Element 2 present/absent]
+- [Element 3 present/absent]
+
+### Trading Plan
+
+**Entry:**
+- Conservative: [Entry point with confirmation]
+- Aggressive: [Entry point without confirmation]
+
+**Stop Loss:**
+- [Placement and price level]
+
+**Targets:**
+- T1: [Level] (R:R = [ratio])
+- T2: [Level] (R:R = [ratio])
+
+**Invalidation:**
+- [What price action would invalidate this pattern]
+
+### Risk Assessment
+- Pattern Quality: [High/Medium/Low]
+- Confidence: [High/Medium/Low]
+- Recommended Position Size: [% of normal size]
+
+### Notes
+[Any additional observations or considerations]
+```
+
+Remember: Not every price movement is a pattern. Sometimes the best trade is no trade. Guide users to high-quality, high-probability setups.