If you’ve ever looked at a trading platform and seen a chart filled with rectangles and vertical lines, you’ve already encountered a candlestick chart — even if you didn’t realize it. These colorful ...

J.B. Maverick is an active trader, commodity futures broker, and stock market analyst 17+ years of experience, in addition to 10+ years of experience as a finance writer and book editor.

Traders often rely on Japanese candlestick charts to observe the price action of financial assets. Candlestick graphs give twice as much information as a standard line chart. They also allow you to ...

It took nearly two centuries for candlestick charts to make the leap to the Western hemisphere from Japan — and just a quarter century to become the preferred charting technique of traders from Wall ...

Stella Osoba is the Senior Editor of trading and investing at Investopedia. She co-founded and chaired Women in Technical Analysis. She has 15+ years of experience as a financial writer and technical ...

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Fast at the pace and volatile as the wind, cryptocurrencies need careful tracking in the flow of their price movements by their traders and investors. One of the best techniques for cryptocurrency ...