How to Read a Candlestick Chart
Start here. What a candlestick is, the body and wicks, green vs red, and what the boxes and lines in our charts mean. No prior knowledge needed.
A price chart can look scary at first, but it is just a row of little bars called candlesticks. Each candlestick tells you four things about one slice of time: where price opened, where it closed, the highest it went, and the lowest. Let's walk through one slowly.
This is ONE candlestick. It shows what price did during one slice of time (say, one hour). Tap Next to take it apart.
The one rule to remember
Green candle = price closed higher than it opened. Red candle = price closed lower. The body shows open-to-close; the wicks show how far price stretched up and down before settling.
That's everything you need to start. From here on, when you see a tall green candle you know price pushed up strongly; a long lower wick means price dipped then got bought back up. Every lesson will point at the exact candles and explain what they mean, step by step.
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