Candlestick charts, originating from Japan over 300 years ago, have become an essential tool for traders worldwide. They provide valuable insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. This blog post delves into the basics of candlestick charts, common patterns, their analysis in context, and practical tips for trading using these charts. By the end, […]
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An engulfing pattern forms on a candlestick chart when a small candle is followed by a larger candle that reaches outside the previous candle’s trading range. The new larger candle will make both a higher high and lower low than the previous smaller candlestick before it on the chart. Engulfing candlestick patterns can be bullish
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Candlesticks are a type of chart setting available on trading platforms that creates a visually representation of price action on a time period. A candlestick shows a contrast between the opening and closing prices along with any range outside the open or close. They are colored to show bullish or bearish action. The three primary
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Candlesticks are a type of chart that clearly represents the behavior of buyers and sellers through visual price action patterns. They are a very helpful type of chart that can be used for seeing patterns form on a chart and establish signals. Here are three ways that candlestick charts can be used to quantify patterns
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A bearish engulfing candle forms on a chart when a small body candle is inside the range of the next large down candle which can be black or red depending on chart settings. When a two candle bearish engulfing pattern happens near the top of an uptrending chart or when a chart has an overbought
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Munehisa Honma (本間 宗久) 1724-1803 is known as the father of the candlestick chart. He is believed to have been a rice merchant in 18th century Japan who traded the Dojima Rice market in Osaka. . In 1710, a Japanese rice spot market was transformed into a futures market for rice. This market used coupons
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A candlestick chart is a type of visual representation of price action used in technical trading to show past and current price action in specified timeframes. Most candlestick charts will reflect a higher close than the open as represented by either a green or white candle with the opening price as the bottom of the
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The three white soldiers is a very bullish chart pattern that is created with candlesticks when there are three big candles formed in a row with higher highs and higher lows in a row. This pattern needs three data points across a timeframe to signal momentum and a high probability that a market will shift
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This is a Guest Post by Miad Kasravi @ZFXtrading of speculatorstrading.com. Trading with the Flow Part 1 of 3 Volume analysis Volume spread analysis or VSA. Looks at the relationship between volume traded and size of candlesticks. In it’s basic state the body size of a candle is in proportion with volume traded, in the FOREX market it is
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This is a Guest Post by @BullDudeC of BullDude.com. A Japanese candlestick chart is a type of visual price display of a financial instrument. Usually charts are displayed as a line that combines the closing prices of the various trading sessions. The disadvantage of this type of display is that only the closing price
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