The Chart: Basics

Ash Saga
5 min readMay 21, 2020

This is a snapshot of an assets trading history, visualized in a candlestick chart format. Overall, for the modern trader this chart is the most useful and informative tool one can use in making predictions about price action. The candlestick chart itself goes back hundreds of years to Japan and its rice markets, where the first futures contracts were derived and traded. Traders and investors alike have relied on the candlestick chart across all types of…

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