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The 3 Drives Pattern Cheat Sheet
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3 Drives is a reversal pattern. It signals exhaustion at the end of a trend. When you see it form clean, the trend is dying.
Two flavors:
Bullish 3-Drives → three higher highs → bearish reversal
Bearish 3-Drives → three lower lows → bullish reversal
Comes from Elliott Wave and Fibonacci, but I keep it simple.
The 3 textbook components.
Structure. Three sequential drives in the same direction.
In a bullish 3-Drives, you need three higher highs with higher lows between them.
In a bearish, three lower lows with lower highs between them.
No structure = no pattern.
Time.
Each drive should take roughly the same time to complete.
The textbook says exactly the same.
I say similar. If the first two drives form in 5 candles each and the third takes 15, the pattern is weakened or invalid.
Be flexible, not dogmatic.
Fibonacci.
Between drives, the pullback should retrace into the 0.618-0.75 zone — the golden pocket.
Each new drive should extend 1.27 to 1.618 of the previous.
Same flexibility rule.
Price doesn't move by textbook.
My pro tips.
The textbook gives you the pattern.
The pro tips give you the edge.
Trade it at known levels.
A 3-Drives in price discovery is much weaker than a 3-Drives running into a known resistance or supply zone.
The level gives the pattern a place to react from.
Pattern + level = confluence. Pattern alone = guess.
Add momentum. You want to see exhaustion.
RSI divergence is the cleanest signal — price making new highs while RSI prints lower highs.
Or volume drying up across the drives — less pressure on each push.
Either signal alone adds conviction.
Both = setup of the year.
How to trade it.
Two entry styles.
Pick your trade-off.
Aggressive entry — better price, riskier.
You enter at the end of the 3rd drive. Use the Fibonacci 1.27-1.618 extension or the S/R level to estimate where the drive completes.
The pattern is not confirmed yet — you're betting on the reversal.
Stop goes above the high (or below the low) of the 3rd drive.
Conservative entry — better confirmation, worse price.
You wait. After the 3rd drive forms, you watch for a market structure break.
Then you enter on the first lower high (bearish reversal) or higher low (bullish reversal) that confirms the structure flip.
You give up entry price for confidence.
Both work. Neither is wrong. Choose based on your style and what your stop tolerance allows.
The bottom line.
3 Drives is powerful when all the components line up.
Structure, time, Fibonacci, level, momentum. Stack the confluence.
Be patient. Be selective.
Don't force the pattern on every chart — it doesn't show up that often when all the rules are met.
One clean 3-Drives setup is worth ten guesses.
Trade what's in front of you. Not what you wish was there.
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