Basics lesson 9 of 11 · 5 min
Reading a candlestick chart
The basic building block of every price chart.
- Each candle shows the open, high, low and close for one period.
- A green (or hollow) body closed higher than it opened; red closed lower.
- The thin lines (wicks) show how far price reached before being pushed back.
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