If you’ve ever looked at a trading platform and seen a chart filled with rectangles and vertical lines, you’ve already encountered a candlestick chart — even if you didn’t realize it. These colorful ...

Traders often rely on Japanese candlestick charts to observe the price action of financial assets. Candlestick graphs give twice as much information as a standard line chart. They also allow you to ...

Casey Murphy has fanned his passion for finance through years of writing about active trading, technical analysis, market commentary, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), commodities, futures, options, and ...

Candlestick charts are a cornerstone in technical analysis and perhaps one of the earliest forms of technical analysis, having been developed in the 18th century in Japan by rice trader Munehisa Homma ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tom is a pioneer in computerized technical analysis of the markets. Some of today’s most popular technical indicators or trading ...