Price action

How to read a candle

A candle is four numbers drawn as a picture. Learn to read those four numbers and most of what people call "price action" stops being mysterious — including the wick, which is the part that actually tells you something.

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What is inside:

The anatomy
The wick is the interesting part
Timeframe changes everything
What "closed" means, and why it matters
The broker's clock
What a candle cannot tell you

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