Knowing how to read candlestick charts is needed for both stock trading and foreign FOREX trading. Candlesticks are a record of changes in price that will help a trader to identify trends and spot approaching breakouts and reversals or retracements. Many traders are able to develop worthwhile trading systems virtually wholly on the premise of candlestick charts, and many more systems rely on them as a first or primary signal. The chart is made from a collection of blocks or candles, each one showing the open, close, high and low costs over a period. These can be costs of anything: stocks, commodities, currencies or whatever. The open and close prices might be the prices for a day’s trading but mostly you have control over the period and you can set your chart to show a candle for each hour, for five minutes or whatever. In this situation the open price is the bottom of the candle’s wide block and the close price is the top of the block. In this example of course the upper edge of the body is the open price and the lower edge is the close.
Some charts nowadays are shown in 2 colours. You could have green or blue for a bullish period when the price was rising and red for a bearish period when the price was falling.
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May.2,2011
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