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Steve Nison’s Candle Charting Essentials and BeyondVolume 1 of the Nison Educational Series
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The Framework &Real Bodies and
Shadows
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open close
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RealBody
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low
Shadow
Real Bodies / Shadows
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Open
Close
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Reading the market Psychology
Bullish Engulfingpatterns as support
Bear Stearns Collapse
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Helping youovercomingyour tradingchallenges
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• Entering trades too late
• Knowing when to exit
• Preserving trading capital
• Quickly recognizing the candle signals
• Paralysis by analysis
• Quickly recognizing candle signals
• Correctly using candlesticks
When to pull trigger
When to ignore
• Lack of confidence pulling the trigger
Trading Challenges:Trading Challenges:
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Helping youovercomingyour tradingchallenges
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• Easy to Understand• Early Reversals• “Safety First”• East + West• All markets• All Time Frames• Accelerates Analysis
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CandlestickCharting
Techniques
WesternCharting
Tools
Trade Management
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Information isPower! Learn how toavoid losing trades
Pinpoint turningsignals with razorsharp accuracy
The Result:
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What we learned:What we learned:
The Popularity of Candles
The Anatomy of the Candle Line
Candles and market psychology
History of candles
Benefits of Candles
Candles are a tool – not a tradingsystem
Importance of Education
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CandlestickCharting
Techniques
WesternCharting
Tools
Trade Management
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• Early reversals
• “Safety First” Trading
• Quickly read themarket’s message
Candlestick Charts
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The Framework:Analyzing Real Bodies
and Shadows
The Framework:Analyzing Real Bodies
and Shadows
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The longer the realbody the strongerthe momentum.
The relative sizeand position of theshadow displaysthe extent of pricerejection.
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Who’s in control?
“The Real Body is the Essence of the Price Movement”
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Who’s in control?
Basic Criteria:Small real body - black or white
Market Implication:Immediately preceding trendlosing momentum.
Support or Resistance:Not used
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The cost of not using candles
Higher closes, highs and lows
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What is one of the best ways to make money??
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Basic Criteria:• Market in up or down trend
• Open and close prices are the same(or nearly the same)
Market Implication:Market at a point of indecision
Support or Resistance:Highest high of doji and priorcandle for resistance. Not used assupport
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Saved by the light of the candles!
Those poortraders whogot fooled intobuying here.
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Be cautious of new highs made with doji
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Doji as Warning
Weekly Weakly
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Doji Hints Rally Stalling
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Doji Confirms resistance
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Candles can be used in all time frames
“Market istired”
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Use the highest high ofthose two sessions (topof upper shadow) asresistance
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Doji as Resistance
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Warning!
Reading the Market’s Message Quickly!
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Doji as resistance
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Doji as Resistance
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Who’s in control?
Small Real Bodies (spinning tops)
Who’s in control?
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Shadows
Lower closes, lower highsand lower lows, but whatare shadows hinting?
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Upper and Lower Shadows
Area of Supply
Area of Demand
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Basic Criteria:• Market in up or down trend
• Very long upper and lower shadow/small real body towards the middleof session’s range
Market Implication:Market “confused”
Support or Resistance:Not used
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Doji = caution
“Market isTired”
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New low with high wave means caution
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Candles help us read the markets message
What do the series of bullish shadows tellus about supply/demand near 63.50?
Is it any surprise what happened a fewweeks later at that level?
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Reading the Market’s Message
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What we learned:What we learned:
Candles give 2x information
Spinning Tops
Doji – warning and resistance
Importance of Shadows
Single candles and market psychology
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Essentials of SingleCandle Patterns
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Reversal SignalsReversal Signals
• Where the currenttrend slows orreverses after thereversal pattern.
• Most candle signalsare potentialreversals.
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Single Candle Lines:The Bull Signals
Single Candle Lines:The Bull Signals
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Basic Criteria• Market in a downtrend
• Small real body (either color) at, ornear, top of range.
• Lower shadow at least 2x height realbody
Market Implication“A chance to buy at the bottom “
Support or ResistanceLow of hammer as support
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Psychology – Strong demand
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Using Candles across the Spectrum
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Hammers
Intra day chart
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Hammer as buy at $166.50
Doji as exitat $169.30
Result:almost $3per share inless than 10minutes!
Education = Confidence = $uccess
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Hammer and trend
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hammer’s lower shadow as Support
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Hammer as Support
Hammer
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Hammer as Support
Chart courtesy of Genesis FT
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Why Protective Stops
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Which three prices of thesession are on the high?
What happened duringthe session and bysession’s end?
Dragonfly Doji
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Dragonfly
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Basic Criteria:Same shape as Hammer but marketin downtrend
Market Implication:In theory, potential bottom reversal
Support or Resistance:Not used as support
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Inverted Hammer with confirmation
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Single Candle Lines:The Bear Signals
Single Candle Lines:The Bear Signals
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Basic Criteria:• Market in up trend
• Small real body (black or white) at,or near, bottom of session
• Upper shadow at least twice heightof the real body
Market Implication:Potential top reversal
Support or Resistance:High of signal as resistance
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Shooting Star “signals trouble overhead”
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Hammer as buy at $166.92
Shooting staras exitat $168.12
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What iswrong withthis so called“shootingstar?”
Hint: look at upper shadow
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“A crack has entered the market”
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Shooting Stars as Resistance
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Shooting Stars
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Which three prices ofthe session are on thelow?
What happened duringthe session and bysession’s end?
Gravestone Doji
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Gravestone
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Gravestone
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Gravestone Doji
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Shooting star
Hammer
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“If it appears from below,buy. If it appears fromabove then sell.”
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Basic CriteriaSame shape as Hammer but marketin uptrend
Market ImplicationIn theory, potential top reversal
Support or ResistanceNot used as resistance
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There must be bearish confirmation forthe hanging man. This means waiting foran open– or even better – a close underthe bottom of the hanging man’s realbody.
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Hanging Man
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Hanging Man
confirmation
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Using Candles in a “Box” Range
Who has more control here? Who has more control here?
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Box range – which way?
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Box range – which way?
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Reading the Market’s Message
Hammer
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Using the insights of single candle lines
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Using Single Candle Lines
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Reading the Market’s Message
Who’s in charge with the red arrows?
Who’s in charge with the green arrows?
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Reading Market Psychology
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What we learned:What we learned:
Most candles are reversals
High wave candles
One sided shadow candles: bull and bear
Less emphasis on hanging man and invertedhammer
Box ranges and single candle lines
Single candle lines to read the market’s message
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Essentials of MultipleCandle Lines
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Double Candle Lines:The Bull Signals
Double Candle Lines:The Bull Signals
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Basic Criteria• Market in down trend
• White real body wraps around priorsession black real body
Market ImplicationBottom reversal
SupportThe lowest low of the two sessionsof the pattern
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Classic Bull Engulf
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Shadows for Insights
Lower closes, butwhat are shadowshinting?
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Bullish Engulfing Pattern
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How many black candles didthis wrap around?
Bullish Engulfing Pattern
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Bullish Engulfing Pattern
Anythinghinting bearslosing force?
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openopen
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Bullish Engulfing Pattern
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Series of Bullish Engulfing Patterns
Shooting stars
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Bullish Engulfing Pattern as Support
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Bull Engulf as Support
Bullish Engulfing
Patterns
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Basic Criteria• Market in down trend
• Opens below prior low (or close)
• White candle closes more than 50%into prior black real body
Market ImplicationBottom reversal
SupportThe lowest low of the twocandlestick lines
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Piercing Pattern
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Piercing Pattern
Not Piercing Patterns
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Early clues of shifting supply/demand
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On–neckclose=
prior low
PiercingPattern
In–neckclose=
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Thrustingclose above
prior low(small white
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Basic Criteria• Market in down trend
• First candle is an unusually longblack real body
• Second relatively small real body(either color) within prior real body
Market ImplicationPrior trend is “losing its breath”
SupportNot used
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Bull Harami
Not harami
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Bull Harami
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Bull Harami
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Double Candle Lines:The Bear Signals
Double Candle Lines:The Bear Signals
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Basic Criteria• Market in up trend
• Black real body wraps around priorsession opposite color real body
Market ImplicationTop Reversal
ResistanceThe highest high of the two sessionsof the pattern
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Bearish Engulfing Pattern
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Bearish Engulfing pattern as resistance
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Candles: Support and Resistance
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Candles: Support and Resistance
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Topoutsidereversal
Bottomoutsidereversal
Western Outside Reversals
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Engulfing Patterns and Outside reversals
Topoutsidereversal
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Engulfing Patterns and Outside Reversals
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Engulfing pattern and trends
stops!
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Basic Criteria• Market in up trend
• Opens above prior high (or close)
• Black candle closes deeply intoprior long white candle
Market ImplicationTop reversal
Support or ResistanceThe highest high of the two linesthat make up the pattern
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Dark Cloud Cover
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Dark Cloud Cover as Resistance- FX
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Dark Cloud Cover- Futures
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Dark Cloud Cover - Stock
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Dark Cloud Cover as Resistance - Intraday
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Basic Criteria• Market in up trend
• First candle is an unusually longwhite real body
• Second relatively small real body(either color) within prior real body
Market ImplicationBears losing momentum
Support or ResistanceNot used
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Bear harami
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Bear Harami
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Bull and Bear Harami
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Triple Candle Lines:The Bull Signals
Triple Candle Lines:The Bull Signals
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Criteria• Market in downtrend
• First candle is long black
• Second candle small real body thatdoesn’t (or slightly) overlaps first realbody
• Third candle is white real body thatgets deeply into first real body
Market ImplicationBulls now in control
SupportLow of three candles
white or black
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Morning Star as Support
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Morning Stars
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Morning Star as Support
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Moring Star as Support
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Morning Star
Variation
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Morning Star as Support
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Triple Candle Lines:The Bear Signals
Triple Candle Lines:The Bear Signals
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white or blackCriteria• Market in uptrend
• First candle is long white
• Second candle small real body thatdoesn’t (or slightly) overlaps first realbody
• Third candle black real body that getsdeeply into first real body
Market ImplicationBears are now in control
ResistanceHighest high of three candle lines
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Evening Star
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Evening Star
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Evening Star
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Evening star
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Evening Star and Flexibility
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Evening Star as Resistance
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Evening Star Variation
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On this 1 minute chartlook at the candlesignals sent by RIMMat 129.80/.90
Reading the Market’s Message Quickly and Accurately
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Reading the Market’s Message Quickly and Accurately
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Reading the Market’s Message
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Reading the Market’s Psychology
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Criteria• Market in a downtrend
• Three relatively long white candles
• Last two open within, or over, priorwhite real body
• Each candle closes at, or near, its high
Market ImplicationBottom reversal
Support or ResistanceNot used as support
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Three Soldiers
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Criteria• Market in uptrend
• Three long black candles
• Open of last two within, or below, priorblack real bodies
• Each candle closes at, or near, its low
Market ImplicationTop reversal
Support or ResistanceNot used as resistance
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Three Black Crows
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What we learned:What we learned:
Bullish and Bearish EngulfingPatterns
Brief description difference withcandles in FX
Piercing Pattern
Simplifying Candle Analysis
Dark Cloud Cover
Bull and Bear Harami
Reading the market’s messagewith dual candle patterns
Morning and Evening Stars
Being flexible in chart readings
Soldiers and Black Crows
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The trend before the signal continues after the signal
Three Methods
Windows
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Rising and Falling Three Methods
Falling ThreeRising Three
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Rising Three Methods
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Falling Three Methods
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Gap Higher =Rising Window
Gap Lower =Falling Window
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A rising window is support
SupportZone
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Rising Window
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Rising Windows
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Broken Windows
Once the window is brokenit is no longer potential support
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Candles in Context
ShootingStar, but…
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Candles in Context
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How education SAVES you money
Bearish engulfingpattern, but you mustnot sell here!
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Rising Window
Rising Window Hammer
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A falling window is resistance
ResistanceZone
Most importantresistance level
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Falling Window
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Breaking Falling window’s Resistance
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Falling Window
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Falling window
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Small Windows
2 cents
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When the market gaps above resistance – or below support
Breakaway Gap
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Breakaway Gap
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Breakaway gap
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Safety first Trading
Strong candles
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Fry Pan Bottom Dumpling Top
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Fry pan bottom
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Fry Pan Bottom
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Dumpling top
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Upside gapping tasuki
downward gapping tasuki
Down gap parallelwhite lines
Up gap parallelwhite lines
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What we learned:What we learned:
Continuation candles
Rising and falling threemethods
Window essentials
Large vs. small windows
Windows and roundingtops/bottoms
Simplifying candle analysiswith windows
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How NOT to use candlesticks
Oh my goodness! Themarket rallied after theshooting star!
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