okay, so i'll have to admit here, i have not been trading and/or paying much attention to the market action this week, due to other priorities at the moment... so, i am literally just checking in from time to time to see what i have missed... hence, i haven't had much of any time for looking at charts or trading these markets all week... but, i just had a few minutes on this afternoon for breaking in during lunch hour and noticed something had struck my eye here ... anyone else notice this interesting candlestick pattern develop on the cash s&p 500 chart (spx) where price has literally closed on the absolute dead lows for the past 3 days in a row? there is absolutely no lower wick/shadow on either of those 3 candles highlighted in my chart.

i gotta be honest but i can't remember the last time this occurance happened on the spx, but i know its a very rare and bearish candlestick chart pattern ... something by the name of three black soldiers/crows(?) if my memory serves right? if someone knows the correct name for this, please feel free to post it up in here...

now of course i don't want to make a huge deal over some rare candlestick patterns, that would be quite absurd as confirmation is needed as well ... but, its just something that i thought to bring up for discussion in here as i personally found it to be interesting...

when i get back at the trading desk later this evening or tommorrow, i am going to try to find another instance of this candlestick pattern on the daily spx, where price had closed on the days low for 3 sessions in a row... i want to say that i think there was a stretch in 2007-08 (?) when we saw something similar to this ... but, thus i am not 100% sure, so i will need to do some more work on this later to see what i find... although i will have to admit, i don't know if i will find anything quite like this one where price closed right on the lows 3 times in a row ... thus, i'm wondering if anyone has ever recalled seeing this particular candlestick pattern appear on the chart to a tee?