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Good Morning, Traders! Today, I'm going to give you a crash course in candlesticks and tick values so you can learn more about how I use my charts to find trading opportunities in the futures markets. These aren't the candlesticks that your grandmother used to decorate her dining room. I'm talking about those red and green lines you see in my timeframe charts every day. They may seem complicated at first, but candlestick charts are easy to understand once you know how they work. Let's dive in and talk about candlesticks and ticks! Naked price action is critical information for any trader. It tells you exactly what the price is doing at any given time. The price action dictates what's going on in the market. It's important to remember this. But how can we visualize and track price action as we prepare to trade? That's where candlestick charts come in to play.
Now let's explore the details of candlestick charts and how they function...
A chart is made up of lots of individual market candlesticks. There are several types of candlesticks, but let's take a look at bullish and bearish. You can often see green and red bars scattered all over charts. What do they mean? How do you interpret the market's activity through these candles? Bullish Candle A green candle represents a bullish market. A bullish candle means that the price has increased over a given period. Remember: green means positive price movement. Bearish Candle A red candle typically signifies a bearish market. This means that the price has decreased over the specified period. The market is down. Remember: red means negative price movement.  Time If you're looking at a 5-minute chart, each fully-formed candle represents 5 minutes of price action. An hourly chart means that each candle represents an hour. A day chart signals a day's worth of activity, and so on. These timeframes play a pivotal role in helping us determine when and how we should enter a market.
You can learn more about short-term and long-term trading in this free article I wrote! Traders garner information from these candles. They tell you all you need to know about what's happening in the market. The rectangular part of the candle is known as the "Real Body." It shows us the specific price action relating to the opening and closing price.  When looking at charts, you'll often see candles with vertical lines stretching on both ends. These vertical lines are referred to as the wicks of the candles. The wicks indicate the highest and lowest price of the period. The price would have touched the very top and the very bottom of the wicks as the candle was forming for closing. This is invaluable information for a trader as it gives us an idea of the overall price range.
These candles represent ticks. These ticks are the overall price movements within a specified timeframe. In futures markets, ticks are how we make money. Each tick represents a value in a futures contract. The more upward ticks we see in a trade, the more money we make. Check out my article on tick values to understand how we use them to make profitable trades. It's another resource you can leverage when building your trading strategy! The above is some of the basic information required for reading a candlestick chart. All of the data presented on charts is based on price action. Bullish candles signify the market pushing higher as price increases. If you spot bearish candles, this is interpreted as price decreasing or the market falling. There are wicks visible on both ends of the market candlesticks, representing the highest and lowest prices. Market candlesticks serve as excellent indicators of traders' emotions. When traders are feeling confident in a market, we'll see more bullish candles. If they're pessimistic about a market, then bearish candles will dominate the chart.
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