Morning star and evening star in stock trading

Two very powerful variants to the candlestick star position are the morning and evening star. These positions carry strong reversal tendencies and are worth special mention.

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Candlestick engulfing patterns in Stock Trading

Among the most important of candlestick reversal patterns for stock traders are the engulfing positions, which can be seen as the opposite of the harami positions. There are two types, bullish and bearish.

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How to Read Stock Market Candlesticks

The traditional open-high-low-close (OHLC) price bar contains the raw data necessary for technical stock trading. But this data, while sufficient, provides little insight into the emotions within the stock market. And, while stock traders need to keep their own emotions controlled, determining the validity of a potential trade often comes down to reading market sentiment. Read More…

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Candlestick patterns – Forex Trading

Rising three methods is one of the less commonly known candlestick patterns. A combination of five candles, the sequence is:
•    one long ascending (white) candle,
•    three short candles of any colour, forming a slight descending pattern within the first day’s trading range, and
•    another long ascending (white) candle, that closes above the first day’s trading range and resuming the uptrend. Read More…

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Forex Candlestick reversal patterns

There are four candlestick reversal patterns that are often confusing to beginning forex traders. They combine small bodies with long wicks on one side and nonexistent or very small wicks on the other, and they are sufficiently uncommon in forex trading to command attention when they do occur.

The first two, the hammer and the hanging man, have small bodies with long lower wicks and nonexistent or very short upper ones. They can be either ascending (white) or descending (black or red). The hammer forms at the end of a downtrend, and the hanging man at the end of an uptrend. Read More…

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