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Candlestick Patterns with this 82 page FREE PDF Candlestick Guide. Candlestick charts is a visual representation of the battle between the bulls and the bears that takes place in the market. It takes time for this battle to take shape. Candlestick patterns on the very short timeframes used for scalping and some other day trading strategies may not give signals that can be properly interpreted and traded.
In the last decade electronic trading has become highly popular. What this means is that significant volume of the trading takes place outside of the regular market hours. This trading can cause patterns that don't reflect the full picture to appear on a candlestick chart.
For example, stock ABC trades on NYSE. NYSE officially opens at 9:30 AM EST for trading. Stock ABC open price is $60 per share. However, this stock had been trading on the electronic network in the pre-market hours as low as $59. Now the open on the NYSE may not be a true reflection of where the stock had been trading initially on that day.
What this means is that the open recorded on the candlestick chart is not accurate. Now, suppose the stock ABC never trades down to $59 during the day. So, the low on the candlestick chart may not be an accurate depiction of the day's price action.
So candlestick charts on very short time frame may not be able to produce accurate trading signals. Couple this with the fact that most of the trading now also takes place on the electronic networks makes them somewhat inaccurate sometimes. These are the two risks or what you may call limitations that you need to keep in your mind.
Apart from that candlestick chart is a powerful tool in the hands of an experienced trader. When an experienced trader combines these charts with technical indicators, this combination can produce highly accurate trading signals.
There are many candlestick patterns that can be used to produce buy and sell signals. Some of these candlestick patterns are simple while others are complex. Single stick candlestick patterns can be easily spotted while double stick and three stick candlestick patterns can take two to three days to develop. Mastering these candlestick patterns is what you need to do as a serious trader.
Now Yahoo Finance is an excellent free resource that you can use to create candlestick charts for any stock by just entering the stock ticker symbol. You should play around with the options available for Yahoo Finance. This will help you to learn a lot of new things about candlestick charts.
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