Candlestick Reading — From Single Bars to Sequences

Overview

Reading candlesticks well is less about memorising 80 named formations and more about internalising a small set of structural questions: where did the close land relative to the range, how do the wicks balance, and how does the candle relate to the one before it. From those questions you can derive most of the named patterns. The single-bar formations (doji, hammer, hanging man) compress the whole session's tug-of-war into one bar; the two-bar formations (engulfing, harami, piercing line, dark cloud) layer two narratives on top of each other; the three-bar formations (morning star, evening star, three white soldiers) build a longer arc. The trick is reading them in context — the same candle has opposite meanings depending on the trend that preceded it. This hub aggregates the patterns, the indicators most useful to confirm them, and the example stocks where candlestick reads have been clean enough to study.

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