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If you’ve ever looked at a trading platform and seen a chart filled with rectangles and vertical lines, you’ve already encountered a candlestick chart — even if you didn’t realize it. These colorful ...

Candlestick patterns are widely used in technical analysis to predict future price movements in financial markets. By analyzing the shape and formation of candlesticks, traders and investors can gain ...

In this post we will review the different types of charts you can use to perform technical analysis on foreign exchange (forex) currencies. Although we are focusing on forex technical analysis, the ...

Discover Marubozu candles: learn their formation, how to interpret them for trading strategies, and their role in predicting stock market trends.

What is a Japanese Candlestick? A Japanese candlestick chart displays a security's opening, closing, high and low prices for a given period. The central part of the candlestick, or the body, ...

It's no secret that I like to zero in on the top 250 stocks in the market. And I've even shown you how to whittle those down to the 10 best stocks to trade at any given time. But even then, that's a ...

Candlestick patterns are useful when trading in securities, derivatives, commodities, or currencies. The patterns display market trends at a glance. Japanese candlestick patterns identify bullish or ...