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The Ultimate Candle Pattern Cheat Sheet

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 The Ultimate Candle Pattern Cheat Sheet

The Ultimate Candlestick Pattern Cheat Sheet

How to Read Candlesticks

A candlestick is a type of chart used in trading as a visual representation of past and current
price action in specified timeframes.

A candlestick consists of the ‘body’ with an upper or lower ‘wick’ or ‘shadow’.

Most candlestick charts show a higher close than the open as represented by either a green or
white candle with the opening price as the bottom of the candle and the closing price as the
high of the candle. Also, most candlestick charts show a lower close than the open represented
by either a red or black candle with the opening price as the top of the candle body and the
closing price as the low of the candle body.

Price action that happens outside the opening and closing prices of the period are represented
by the wicks or shadows above the body of each candle. Upper wicks represent price action
that occured above the open and the closing prices and the lower wicks represent price action
that occurred below the opening and closing prices.

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Candlesticks are one type of chart that can be used in technical analysis to look for repeating
patterns and in correlation with other technical indicators and signals.

Candlesticks are combined in many patterns to try to read the behavior of traders and investors
in buying and selling to create good risk/reward setups for trading.

Candlestick charts have different settings. Candlesticks can be set to be green/red or they can
be set as hollow candles. With the green/red settings the green candles occur when price
closes higher than the previous close and red candles occur if price closes lower than the
previous close.

How to Read Hollow Candlesticks

Hollow candlesticks are made up of four components in two groups. First, a close lower than the
prior close gets a red candlestick and a higher close than the previous close gets a white
candlestick. Second, a candlestick is hollow when the close is above the open and filled when
the close is below the open. The following image shows the four possible hollow and filled
candle combinations when using hollow candlestick chart settings.

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Red-hollow candlesticks can show some bullish reversal price action on an overall bearish
chart. Even as the closing price was lower than the previous close making the candle red the
price action moved higher during the period after the open making it hollow. Even though it
closed lower than the previous trading period, there was buying pressure near the lows that
made it close higher than the open.

The solid black or grey-candle is the inverse price action of the red-hollow candle. Even though
the closing price was above the previous close making it black, price action did finish lower than
the open to make it a black-filled candle. Even though a black-filled candle closes higher on the
current period versus the previous period, it does show selling pressure after the opening price.
This candle shows rejection of intraday highs and can be a standalone signal of a bearish
reversal during an upswing or uptrend in price action especially near new highs in price.

There are four types of hollow candlesticks:

Hollow candles occur when the price closed higher than it opened.
Filled candles occur when the price closed lower than it opened.
White candles occur when the price closed higher than the prior close.
Red candles occur when the price closed lower than the prior close.

Note that white candles have black or grey outlines and will at times also be called hollow black
candles or hollow grey candles.

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Learning to read candlesticks quickly is like learning a type of technical trading language. With
time and experience a trader can see what candles are showing about the current price action.
A trader can start seeing the patterns that emerge from buyers and sellers shifting the price
action around key technical price levels of resistance and support on a chart. In this book you
will see bullish, bearish, and neutral candlestick chart patterns and it is important to take the
signals that they give in the context of the bigger picture of the chart.

Bearish candlestick patterns will have better odds of success when they occur on a chart and
have confluence with other bearish signals like overbought readings or a loss of key price
support or an important moving average. The same applies with bullish candlestick patterns
having better odds of success when they occur on a chart and have confluence with other
bullish signals like oversold readings or breaking above a key price support or resistance area
or retaking an important moving average.

Candlestick chart patterns show you the present not the future. They can be used to position
traders for good odds of capturing the next direction of price movement by aligning them in the
path of least resistance. Profitable trading can emerge from going with the current trend on a
chart along with letting your winning trades run and cutting your losing trades short. Along with
doing all this with proper position sizing and discipline. Let’s begin our journey into more
complex candlestick patterns.

Bullish Candlestick Patterns

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Bullish candlestick patterns on a chart visually show buying pressure. These patterns can show
the possibility of a price reversal during a downtrend or the continuation of an uptrend already in
place. There can be single bullish candles or bullish candlestick patterns containing multiple
candles in row.

Here are some of the most popular bullish candlestick patterns with links to descriptions:

Hammer
Inverted Hammer
Dragonfly Doji
Bullish Spinning Top
Bullish Kicker
Bullish Engulfing
Bullish Harami
Piercing Line
Tweezer Bottom
Morning Star
Bullish Abandoned Baby
Three White Soldiers

Bullish candlestick patterns visually show the success of buyers to take a price higher and
buying take control of a chart for the timeframe of the price action. These are bullish signals that
need confirmation with an upswing in price after the pattern forms.

The meaning and value of bullish candlesticks must be considered taking into the context of a
chart pattern and their confluence with other signals. A bullish candlestick pattern that happens
when a chart is oversold could signal a reversal of a downtrend. Bullish candles that happen
late in an uptrend after a long term run in price after a chart is already overbought can have a
lower probability of success.

Bullish candlestick patterns that have a confluence with other systematic buying signals
increase the odds of a trades success.

Bearish Candlestick Patterns

Bearish candlestick patterns on a chart visually show selling pressure. These patterns can show
the possibility of a price reversal during an uptrend or the continuation of a downtrend already in
place. There can be single bearish candles or bearish candlestick patterns containing multiple
candles in row.

Here are some of the most popular bearish candlestick patterns with links to descriptions:

Hanging Man
Shooting Star
Gravestone Doji
Bearish Spinning Top
Bearish Kicker
Evening Star

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 Bearish Engulfing
Bearish Harami
Dark Cloud Cover
Tweezer Top
Bearish Abandoned Baby
Three Black Crows
Evening Doji Star
Evening Star

Bearish candlestick patterns visually show the failure of buyers to take a price higher and sellers
take control of a chart for the timeframe of the price action. These are bearish signals that need
confirmation with a down swing in price after the pattern forms.

The meaning and value of bearish candlesticks must be considered taking into the context of a
chart pattern and their confluence with other signals. A bearish candlestick pattern that happens
when a chart is overbought could signal a reversal of an uptrend. Bearish candles that happen
late in a downtrend after a long term drop in price after a chart is already oversold can have a
lower probability of success.

Bearish candlestick patterns that have a confluence with other systematic short selling signals
increase the odds of trade success.

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 For a deep dive into learning all the different candlestick patterns traders see on charts, you can
also check out my book: The Ultimate Guide to Candlestick Chart Patterns

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