Volume is the effort; the price change it produced is the result. When they disagree — a busy candle that goes nowhere, a quiet one that goes far — the chart says something price alone cannot. The four combinations.
Body, wick, and the proportion between them. Learn to describe any candle in two words before memorising a single pattern name.
Inside bars, flags and pennants. How to tell a trend catching its breath from a trend running out of it — and why the two look similar for the first few candles.
Pin bars, engulfing candles and the morning and evening stars. Three patterns that carry real information — and the level context without which none of them mean anything.
Line, bar and candlestick charts show the same data three ways. This guide explains what each one records, what a candle's body and wick mean, and why candlesticks became the standard.