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 ...

A doji is a trading session where a security’s open and close prices are virtually equal. It can be used by investors to ...

Casey Murphy has fanned his passion for finance through years of writing about active trading, technical analysis, market commentary, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), commodities, futures, options, and ...

When you want to know how a stock has performed over a certain period of time, one of the quickest ways to gauge its behavior is to look at a stock chart. And while there are several types of visual ...

Traders often rely on Japanese candlestick charts to observe the price action of financial assets. Candlestick graphs give twice as much information as a standard line chart. They also allow you to ...

The world of financial markets can shift in moments, and newcomers often find themselves drowning in a sea of numbers, charts, and terminology. But as often happens on the high seas, new traders do ...

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 ...

Japanese candlestick charts have become a standard technical analysis tool for many forex traders. In just one candle, a currency trader can see an exchange rate’s open, high, low and close for a ...