An hourly candlestick shown with depth on a currency exchange. A candlestick chart (also called Japanese candlestick chart) is a style of financial chart used to describe price movements of a,,. Each 'candlestick' typically shows one day, thus a one-month chart may show the 20 trading days as 20 'candlesticks'. Shorter intervals than one day are common on computer charts, longer are possible. It is like a combination of line-chart and a bar-chart: each bar represents all four important pieces of information for that day: The open, the close, the high and the low. Being densely packed with information, they tend to represent over short periods of time, often a few days or a few. Candlestick charts are most often used in of equity and currency price patterns.

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They are visually similar to, though box plots show different information. Contents • • • • • • • • History [ ] Candlestick charts are thought to have been developed in the 18th century by, a rice trader of. They were introduced to the Western world by in his book, Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques. They are often used today in stock analysis along with other analytical tools such as. In Beyond Candlesticks, Nison says, 'However, based on my research, it is unlikely that Homma used candle charts. As will be seen later, when I discuss the evolution of the candle charts, it was more likely that candle charts were developed in the early part of the Meiji period in Japan (in the late 1800s).' Description [ ] Candlesticks are usually composed of the body (black / white or green / red), and an upper and a lower shadow ().

The area between the open and the close is called the real body, price excursions above and below the real body are shadows. The wick illustrates the highest and lowest traded prices of an asset during the time interval represented. The body illustrates the opening and closing trades. If the asset closed higher than it opened, the body is hollow or unfilled, with the opening price at the bottom of the body and the closing price at the top. A short history of the french revolution popkin ebook reader. If the asset closed lower than it opened, the body is solid or filled, with the opening price at the top and the closing price at the bottom.