A hammer is a candlestick pattern when a stock opens then moves a lot lower during the day then rallies back near the opening price. This candlestick pattern looks like a hammer with the long lower wick from the lows of the day looking like the handle and the opening and closing price body form …
A shooting star candle or pin bar reversal is a bearish candlestick pattern when it appears during an uptrend on a chart. A shooting star tends to have long upper wicks and almost no lower wicks along with a candle body that is usually small. A shooting star usually happens when a stock opens and …
I have primarily used candlesticks on my own charts for over a decade. I like them for how they visually represent prices and quickly show the contrast of the open, close and daily range. I studied how best to use them inside a trading system as confirmation of my existing signals. I was very happy when a …
