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Volume candlesticks may sound a bit odd at first. After all, most of us are used to seeing price candlesticks separate from volume bars below on a chart. Perhaps you’ve even tried Volume Profile...
The shooting star is a single bearish candlestick pattern that is common in technical analysis. The candle falls into the “hammer” group and is a first cousin of the – hanging man, hammer, and...
The Harami candlestick pattern is usually considered more of a secondary candlestick pattern. These are not as powerful as the formations we went over in our Candlestick Patterns Explained article;...
We have discussed a number of candlestick patterns on the Tradingsim blog. If you haven’t checked out our other resources be sure to do so, you’ll find a really nice candlestick pattern cheat sheet...
Candlestick patterns can have some crazy names sometimes. Stars, dojis, and abandoned babies? The Japanese were fond of naming candlestick patterns after real-life visual representations. Shooting...
The Three White Soldiers pattern is a popular bullish candlestick pattern. It is fairly easy for most traders to spot in real time given the 3 large range successive candles. Moreover, in the right...