Candlesticks
Bad Trading Habits
Bad
Trading •
•
Failing to Manage your Trading Risk
Habits
Revenge Trading After Taking Loss
• Jumping from one system to another
• Sticking to Bad Trading Plan.
• Getting Emotional and Impatient.
Candlestick
Patterns
The candlesticks are used to
identify trading patterns.
Patterns, in turn, help the
technical analyst to set up a
trade.
Each candle shows the open, close, high and low price
➢ The wide part of the candlestick is called the body. It represents the open and
close of the period.
➢ The wicks at the top and the bottom of the candlestick show the highest and
lowest price reached during that period.
Candlestick ➢ The different colors of the body tell you if the candlestick is bullish (rising) or
bearish (falling).
A line chart is simplistic and only
displays price movement in a
line.
A Japanese candlestick chart
shows more information within
each individual candlestick.
Assumptions specific to candlesticks
➢ By the strength and sell weakness.
➢ Be Flexible with patterns ( Quantify and Verify)
➢ Look for Prior Trend
Assessing the
balance
between the
buyers and the
sellers
The longer the body of a
candlestick, the more momentum
there is in that direction.
Assessing the balance between the buyers and the sellers
The longer a bullish candlestick, the more buying
pressure there is in comparison to selling pressure
for that period.
The longer a bearish candlestick, the more selling
pressure there is in comparison to buying pressure
for that period.
The formation of Candlestick-Change in Sentiment
Bearish Sentiment Bullish Sentiment
❖ The longer a bullish candlestick, the more buying pressure there is in comparison
to selling pressure for that period.
❖ The longer a bearish candlestick, the more selling pressure there is in
comparison to buying pressure for that period.
Hammer
• The bullish hammer is a significant
candlestick pattern that occurs at the
bottom of the trend.
• Little to no upper shadow
• The price closes at the top ¼ of the range
• The lower shadow is about 2 or 3 times the
length of the body
• The longer, the lower shadow, the more
bullish the pattern
• A hammer can be of any colour.
Trading strategy
“Don’t trade any candlestick pattern in Isolation”
Trend – Trade in the direction of the trend
• If the price is above the 200MA, then have a long bias
• If the price is below the 200MA, then have a short bias
The Hammer
Candlestick
Trading Strategy
Guide
• A hammer is a bullish candlestick
reversal candlestick pattern that shows
rejection of lower prices.
• A Hammer is usually a retracement
against the trend
Area of value – Trade from an area of value
• The Hammer doesn’t tell you the
direction of the trend
• AOV is an area on your chart where buying/selling pressure is lurking
• The context of the market is more around (E.g. Support & Resistance, Trendline, Channel, etc.).
important than the Hammer. It refers to
the market condition like whether the Entry trigger – Identify an entry trigger
market is in an uptrend, downtrend, • So, once the conditions of your trading setup are met, you’ll look for an
sideways, has strong momentum, etc. entry trigger to enter a trade.
• It can be a Hammer candlestick or any other bullish reversal candlestick
patterns.