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 ...

Candlestick charts are a cornerstone in technical analysis and perhaps one of the earliest forms of technical analysis, having been developed in the 18th century in Japan by rice trader Munehisa Homma ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Candlestick charts are the gold standard, providing a visual map of price movement through open, high, low, and close data ...

What does a modern stock market analyst and a 17th century Japanese rice trader have in common? A little more than you may think. In fact, both have been known to be fond of a very particular charting ...