Candlestick charts
How to read Japanese candles: body, wicks, dojis and context.
Each candle shows four prices for a period: open, high, low and close (OHLC). The body runs between the open and the close; the wicks show the price’s path to the high and the low.
A green (bullish) candle closed above its open, a red (bearish) one below. Long wicks show that the price was pushed back from its extremes before the close.
One candle is only a fragment of the picture. Its meaning depends on the trend, levels, volume and timeframe.