The candlestick chart is one of the most used ways of representing the oscillation of an asset in a given period.
Follow the progress of a candle using the Candle Clock tool. In the following example, the chart is at the 5-minute periodicity, so the candle will be formed from the price movement every 5 minutes of trading:
To select this type of graph, click the clock icon in the graph window:
Features
The body of a candle is represented by a color, defaulting to green for Bullish Candles and red for Bearish Candles.
Bullish candles have the close at the top and the open at the bottom. Bearish candles have the close at the bottom and the open at the top:
Candles have an upper and a lower shadow, called a wick. The wicks represent the maximum and minimum, that is, the maximum and minimum price at which trading has occurred:
Left-click on a specific candle to view its information.
In the following example, note that the candle opened at 02:10 PM and closed at 02:15 PM, as the graph is in the 5-minute time frame.
The small black and white candles displayed in the summary are the candles per minute, i.e. the 5-minute trading candle, for example, is the set of five 1-minute candles:
In the platform Settings window, go to the Chart menu, to enable the Day Summary:
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