Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When custom homebuilder-turned-stock-trader Ryan Litchfield discovered candlestick charting, he saw the symbols as "a mystery that seemed full of secrets." If you understood the patterns, he thought, ...