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Candlestick Charting For Dummies
Russell Rhoads
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Russell Rhoads
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Demystify stock charts so you can up your investing game
Candlestick Charting For Dummies is here to show you that candlestick charts are not just for Wall Street traders. Everyday investors like you can make sense of all those little lines and boxes, with just a little friendly Dummies training. We'll show you where to find these charts (online or in your favorite investing app), what they mean, and how to dig out valuable information. Then, you'll be ready to buy and sell with newfound stock market savvy.
Candlestick Charting For Dummies helps you build a foundation of investing knowledge and lingo (bullish? bearish? What is a candlestick, anyway?), then shows you the chart-reading ropes with relevant and easy-to-understand examples. It covers the latest investing technology, cryptocurrency, and today's somewhat-less-predictable market environment.
- Get a refresher on stock market terminology and investing basics
- Discover how easy it is to understand price history and movement with candlestick charts
- Identify the best times to buy and sell securities, including stocks and crypto
- Learn from real life examples so you can invest with greater confidence and success
This is the Dummies guide for beginner and intermediate investors who want to make smarter decisions with a better understanding of how to read candlestick charts.
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Part 1
Getting Familiar with Candlestick Charting and Technical Analysis
IN THIS PART âŚ
- Get familiar with the mechanics of candlestick charting and how it contrasts with other methods of charting security prices.
- Discover how powerful candlestick charting is relative to other, less-illustrative types of charting.
- See what price activity creates candlesticks.
- Understand the mind of the market based on individual candlesticks.
- Explore electronic resources for creating candlestick charts and even some for identifying bullish and bearish patterns.
Chapter 1
Understanding Charting and Where Candlesticks Fit In
IN THIS CHAPTER
The advent of the Internet has leveled the playing field for securities traders. Access to markets once meant placing orders through a broker; now itâs little more than a couple of mouse clicks away. Commission rates are dramatically lower and in some cases free. Additionally, access to market information is free in many cases. Getting into securities trading is easier than ever, and the result is that a whole generation of investors and traders handles their finances without professional help. Technology allows these people to enjoy many new types of market information, and one of the best tools available is candlestick charting.
Candlestick charting methods have been around for hundreds of years, but candlesticks have caught on over the past couple of decades or so as a charting standard in the United States. Iâve been working with candlestick charts for quite a few years, and Iâve seen many traders â novice to professional â develop a fierce loyalty to candlesticks after taking the time to understand their uses and potential. I think youâll feel the same way, and this book is the first step on your path to conquering candlesticks.
The material contained in this chapter exposes you to many of the facets of candlestick charting that continue to fuel its rise as one of the most popular charting techniques. I begin with the overall role of candlesticks within the context of charting. I cover the advantages of candlestick charting and the basics of candlestick construction. I also take the opportunity at the end of this chapter to discuss how to get started, as well as give you some insight into the characteristics and habits that successful traders employ in their pursuit of profits. Enjoy, and happy charting!
Considering Charting Methods and the Role of Candlesticks
With advancements in technology and the growing availability of trading and investing resources available to traders, many options exist for the charting of securities. There are several types of charts and dozens of variations and features to be configured on each type. Itâs important that youâre clear on the options and â perhaps more important â on why candlestick charting is at the top of the heap. This section explains.
Getting a feel for your options for charting
When it comes to alternatives to candlestick charting, the three main charting contenders are as follows:
- Line charts: These charts are simple and helpful for short-term decisions, but theyâre quite limited in the amount of data presented.
- Bar charts: These charts are the most common type and are much more useful than line charts, but theyâre not as versatile as candlestick charts.
- Point and figure charts: These tried-and-true charting methods are great for recognizing support and resistance levels, but theyâre far less dynamic than candlestick charts.
Each one of these charting methods can be used effectively to ratchet up the effectiveness of your trading strategy, but they pale in comparison with candlestick charts for several reasons, a few of which I describe in the next section.
Realizing the advantages of candlestick charting
Youâd be hard-pressed to find someone whoâs more enthusiastic about candlestick charting than yours truly. I can go on and on about the advantages that candlesticks afford. If you want to read more of my gushing about the many great advantages of candlestick charting, turn to Chapter 2, but here are my top three reasons:
- Two of the best features of candlestick charting in general are visual appeal and readability. You can glance at a candlestick chart and quickly gain an understanding of whatâs going on with the price of a security. You can also tell whether sellers or buyers have dominated a given day and get a sense of how the price is trending.
- Even after reading up on the most rudimentary candlestick basics, you can easily spot the opening and closing price for a security on a candlestick chart. These price levels can be very important areas of support and resistance from day to day, and knowing where they are can be extremely helpful, especially for short-term traders.
- Candlesticks arenât just pretty faces. Candlestick charts also feature specific patterns that you can identify and use to decide when itâs time to buy, sell, or wait on a trade or investment. These patterns can be a real boon to your work with securities, and you can combine them with other technical indicators for even more reliable results.
Understanding Candlestick Components
You canât trade and invest effectively by using candlestick charts unless you understand candlestick patterns, and you may have a very hard time understanding those patterns if you arenât familiar with basic candlestick construction. Candlestick charting starts with the knowledge of what it takes to make a candlestick and how changes in that basic information affect a candlestickâs appearance and what it means. For starters, you need to know what goes into creating a candlestickâs wick (the thin vertical line) and its candle (the thick part in the middle).
The following four pieces of information are combined to create a candlestick:
- Price on the open: The price at which a security opens in a given period is the first piece of information used in creating a candlestick. Depending on whether the securityâs performance is bullish or bearish, the opening price corresponds to either the bottom edge of a candlestickâs candle or the top edge.Candlesticks that represent bullish price action appear white on a chart in this book but green in many charting packages, and candlesticks that represent bearish price action appear black or red when color is available.
- High price: The highest price that a security reaches during a given period corresponds to the top of a candlestickâs wick. If a security opens at a certain price and then trades consistently lower than that price throughout the period, there wonât be any wick above the candle.
- Low price: The lowest price that a security reaches during a period corresponds to the bottom of a candlestickâs wick. If the price action for that period is extremely bullish, and prices trade higher than the open, there wonât be any wick below the candle.
- Price on the close: When a security finishes ...