James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician ...

Candlestick patterns are crucial to understanding the stock market, but where did the concept come from and what do you need to know? Candlestick charts have been used as far back as the 1800s!

Japanese candlestick charts have become a standard technical analysis tool for many forex traders. In just one candle, a currency trader can see an exchange rate’s open, high, low and close for a ...

A doji is a pattern that appears during a trading session when an asset's beginning and closing prices are almost identical. The Japanese term "doji" means "blunder" or "mistake," and since there aren ...

The most successful technical traders rarely rely on just one signal. Instead, they look to a few go-to indicators for confirmation before acting on buy and sell signals. In a recent webinar, John ...

A Hammer Doji is a type of bullish reversal candlestick pattern that can be used in technical analysis. When candles of different shapes are arranged in a certain way on the chart, they can indicate ...