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 ...

Technical traders are confronted with many choices when it comes to charting. More often than not Forex charts are defaulted with candlestick charts which differ greatly from the more traditional bar ...

Japanese candlestick charts have become a standard technical analysis tool for many forex traders. In just one candle, a currency trader can see an exchange rate’s open, high, low and close for a ...

The cryptocurrency trading world has a lot of technical jargon around it. Oftentimes new traders put their money without doing research, thinking it’s a “get rich quick” scheme. But it is not. The ...

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 ...

The world of financial markets can shift in moments, and newcomers often find themselves drowning in a sea of numbers, charts, and terminology. But as often happens on the high seas, new traders do ...