Bearish · Continuation

Descending Triangle Pattern

A descending triangle is a usually bearish pattern formed by a flat support line on the bottom and a falling resistance line of lower highs above it. It often resolves with a breakdown below support.

By the ExecutionIQ team · Updated June 2026

What the Descending Triangle pattern means

Sellers keep pressing at lower prices while buyers defend one fixed level. The lower highs show supply building over a floor that is not rising. When sellers finally break that support, price tends to break down.

How the Descending Triangle is traded

→Enter on a close below the flat support, or on a retest of it as new resistance.
→The target is roughly the height of the triangle projected down from the breakdown.
→Stop goes above the most recent lower high.
→A breakdown on rising volume is more convincing.