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Candlestick Patterns

How to apply the only chart that is always correct. The lost art of keeping it simple.

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Candlestick Analysis

A short term picture of supply and demand that keeps you in sync with

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Goals

• To introduce candlestick charts and to understand the price action that forms the candlestick.

• To introduce specific candlestick patterns and understand how to apply them.


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Candlestick Charts: A Little History

• Candlestick charts were developed in Japan in the late 1700’s.

• Candlestick charts display a stocks price action using color to show us what happened.

• The trades that occur between the open, high, low and close will form a pattern.

• Candlesticks place emphasis on the most current battle between supply and demand.


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The Forming of the Candlestick

• Each candlestick has a body and a wick.• The color of the body shows the relationship between the

opening and the closing price, the color is a very important characteristic.

1. A green body is formed when the closing price is above the opening price. These candles are bullish, showing us the buyers won the battle.

2. A red body is formed when the closing price is below the opening price. These candles are bearish, the sellers won the battle.

3. The wick is the part of the candle above and below the body. The wick shows us the high and low of a candle.


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Bar Chart Vs. Candlestick


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Viewing the Supply/Demand Battle

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Candlestick Patterns

• Candlestick charts will provide us with the following patterns:

1. The start of a move

2. End of a move

3. Momentum slowing down

• * Remember these patterns should be only viewed in the context of the bigger picture


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Energy Candlesticks

• Bullish energy candlesticks have large bodies, open near their low and close near their high.

• Bearish energy candlesticks have large bodies, open near their high and close near their low.

• Typically this price action represents a high energy move.

• Where it occurs in price action will tell you if it is stored up energy or exhaustive energy.


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Fuel Candlesticks: the start of a new trend

• Fuel is an energy candlestick that starts a new trend

• Fuel is a large body candlestick emerging from a consolidation.

• Fuel must be accompanied by significant volume compared to previous candlesticks.


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Fuel Candlesticks: the start of a new trend

• Fuel is an energy candlestick that starts a new trend

• Fuel is a large bodycandlestick emergingfrom a consolidation.

• Fuel must be accompanied by significant volume compared to previous candlesticks.


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Exhaustion: The End of a Momentum Move

• Exhaustion is an energy candlestick that displays to us the end of a move.

• It is easily identified by a large body candle that has quickly moved a significant distance from its 20sma.

• The large body candle must be accompanied by significant volume.

• This volume spike displays the end of the buying or selling pressure that created the move.


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“Melted Candle”: Reversal of Momentum

• Melted candles represent a potential reversal of momentum

• Melted candles are recognized by a small body, the color of the body is not important.

• Look for melted candles to slow price action after at least two consecutive higher highs or lower lows.

• The closer you get to six consecutive higher highs or lower lows the more likely a reversal will occur after a melted candle.


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Melted Candles In Action


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Notice how nicely melted candles lead to a rise in volatility

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how a rise in volatility leads to melted candles.

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U-Turn Candlesticks

• Similar to melted candles, U-Turn candlesticks display a potential change of short term momentum.

• Much like a melted candle, look for the U-Turn after:1. two or more consecutive higher highs or lower lows.• The more consecutive candles involved, the more

potent the reversal will be.• U-Turns are a very effective entry and exit pattern

because they trap many participants on the wrong side, this is why we named it U-Turn.


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Bullish U-Turn

• A Bullish U-Turn will occur after two or more successive lower lows.

• The current candle must trade below the prior candlestick low, the further below the better.

• The current candle must now reverse and close above the open and above the prior candles low.


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Bearish U-Turn

• A Bearish U-Turn will occur after two or more successive higher highs.

• The current candle must trade above the prior candlestick high, the further above the better.

• The current candle must now reverse and close below the open and below the prior candles high.


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U-turn in Action


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Bullish U-Turn leads to a momentum move that ends with a Bearish U-Turn

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Trading With Melted Candles and U-turns

• Candlestick reversal patterns set up a potential change of momentum. Always wait for price to confirm the reversal in the new direction before you initiate a new trade or before you exit a profitable trade. ** essential to success using candlestick reversal patterns!!

• Will be monitored on all of our standard charts weekly, daily, hourly, 15 minute and 5 minute.

• Will be used to enter a new trade (after a pause) or to tighten up a trailing stop on a profitable trade (after a momentum move).


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