Pro lessonCandlestick Charts · 1/43 min read

Candle anatomy: open, high, low, close

What a single candlestick shows: the open, high, low and close (OHLC), the body, the wicks, and what green and red candles mean.

A candlestick chart draws price as a row of small shapes called candles. Each candle sums up everything that happened to the price during one fixed period of time, such as one hour or one day. Once you can read one candle, you can read the whole chart.

Every candle is built from four numbers, often shortened to OHLC:

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