Candlesticks
Candlestick anatomy: what one candle tells you
Body, wick, and the proportion between them. Learn to describe any candle in two words before memorising a single pattern name.
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Candlesticks
Continuation patterns: when a pause is not a reversal
Inside bars, flags and pennants. How to tell a trend catching its breath from a trend running out of it — and why the two look similar for the first few candles.
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Candlesticks
Candlestick reversal patterns that are worth knowing
Pin bars, engulfing candles and the two-bar reversal. Four patterns that carry real information — and the level context without which none of them mean anything.
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Candlesticks
How to read a price chart: candlesticks explained simply
Line, bar and candlestick charts show the same data three ways. This guide explains what each one records, what a candle's body and wick mean, and why candlesticks became the standard.
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