Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Traders often rely on Japanese candlestick charts to observe the price action of financial assets. Candlestick graphs give twice as much information as a standard line chart. They also allow you to ...

If you’ve ever looked at a trading platform and seen a chart filled with rectangles and vertical lines, you’ve already encountered a candlestick chart — even if you didn’t realize it. These colorful ...

A daily chart is a graphical representation of a stock price movements during a single trading day. A daily chart can be in the form of a bar, candlestick, or line chart. One daily chart, in ...

Casey Murphy has fanned his passion for finance through years of writing about active trading, technical analysis, market commentary, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), commodities, futures, options, and ...

Candlesticks are used in technical analysis and can help traders to accurately predict market movements. They will look at the shape and colour of candlesticks to get a sense of trends and patterns in ...

The Ascending Scallop is a multiple candlestick chart pattern that indicates that a bullish continuation is taking place. This pattern forms close to the peak of an uptrend in the market. The ...