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Candlestick patterns
2 lessons and 11 glossary terms cover this across the academy. Each one links to its own page, and nothing is repeated here.
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The curriculum
2 lessons cover this.
In curriculum order, which is the order you would meet them.
The glossary
11 terms belong here.
Alphabetical, each defined in one sentence on its own page.
- Bearish engulfingA two candle formation in which a falling candle's body completely covers the body of the rising candle before it, read by chart traditions as a possible turn after an advance.
- Bullish engulfingA two candle formation in which a rising candle's body completely covers the body of the falling candle before it, read by chart traditions as a possible turn after a decline.
- DojiA candle whose open and close finish at or very near the same price, drawn as a cross, describing a period that ended where it began.
- HammerA single candle with a small body near the top of its range and a lower wick at least twice the body's length, forming after a decline.
- Hanging manA candle with a small body near the top of its range and a long lower wick that appears after an advance, sharing its geometry exactly with the hammer.
- Heikin AshiA candle chart built from averaged prices rather than traded ones, which smooths a series into longer unbroken runs of one colour and hides the actual open and close.
- Inside barAn inside bar is a price bar whose entire high to low range sits within the range of the bar before it, marking a period that did not extend beyond the previous one in either direction.
- Japanese candlestickJapanese candlestick charting draws each interval as a body spanning the open and the close, with thin shadows reaching to the high and the low of the same interval.
- Key reversalA key reversal is a single bar that extends past the previous bar's extreme and then closes back through it, read by chart readers as a turn compressed into one bar.
- RejectionRejection describes price reaching a level and being pushed back inside the same interval, leaving a long wick and a close some distance from the extreme it touched.
- WickA wick is the thin line reaching above or below a candlestick's body, marking the highest and lowest prices traded in that period beyond the levels where it opened and closed.
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