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 ...

What is a Japanese Candlestick? A Japanese candlestick chart displays a security's opening, closing, high and low prices for a given period. The central part of the candlestick, or the body, ...

When you want to know how a stock has performed over a certain period of time, one of the quickest ways to gauge its behavior is to look at a stock chart. And while there are several types of visual ...

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 ...

Cedric Thompson is a pioneer of Technical Analysis in the English-speaking Caribbean and an Investment Management Strategist at the Trinidad and Tobago Unit Trust Corporation Gordon Scott has been an ...

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 ...