Read a Candlestick Chart

Seven lessons. One candle at a time, until a chart stops looking like noise.

A first chart is a wall of red and green bars. Most beginners skip straight to indicators because the bars themselves were never explained, and then read every hammer and doji as an instruction.

This course takes the candle apart. What the four prices in it are, what a wick is telling you, how a run of candles builds a shape you can name, and where the well known patterns hold and where somebody simply gave a coincidence a name. You finish with a clean chart you can read on a phone on the way to work.

Who it's for

The beginner: who has a chart open and has been told to look for patterns.

The self taught trader: carrying a few pattern names and no idea which ones survive a busy market.

The reader on a small screen: who needs the chart to make sense at the size a phone gives them.