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Japanese Candlesticks have been around for centuries. In use since the early 1700’s Japanese candlesticks were first used to trade the rice markets. Over the last 400 years of course they have become popular to many including stock and forex traders.

Japanese candlestick charts display market sentiment like no other form of charting can. With candlestick charts you have basically 2 moving parts. (If you will.) The real body, can be full or hallow, and the wicks or shadows can be long or short, or gone – either way, together you get a nice picture of price action today, or over a period of time.  Read more... (547 words, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)

There are literally hundreds of candlestick patterns that traders use to increase their trading performance. Best used with other technical analysis tools, here are the top 10 patterns that provide the most consistent results.

* The dark cloud: This 2 candlestick reversal patter shows its face at the top of a bullish trend. The first candlestick matches the trend with its bullish real body while the next candlestick appears on the open to be aggressive but immediately fails and heads down to close beyond the 50% point of the first candlestick, letting us know that the reversal has started.  Read more... (616 words, estimated 2:28 mins reading time)