Why Candlesticks?
The charts above show how candlestick patterns may mark important reversal points in the history of a stock. Though similar success should not be expected in all trades, it is clear that candlestick charting and analysis is an effective tool and a powerful method for stock and commodity market timing and analysis. Candlesticks provide visual insight into current market psychology. The use and interpretation of candlesticks in technical analysis is based on certain premises:
1. The “what” (i.e. the price action) is more important than the “why”, (i.e. news, earnings, etc.).
2. All the known information is reflected in the current price,
3. The buyers and the sellers move markets on the basis of psychologically driven emotions of fear, greed and hope,
4. The actual price may not reflect the underlying value.
Traders can use either fundamental analysis or other methods of technical analysis together with the candlesticks as decision criteria. The message inherent in candlesticks, however, is more important since they give insight to what the market is thinking and must never be neglected. Candlesticks offer the unique opportunity for the early identification of reversals which enables our system to establish the stop loss and confirmation levels in time.
Candlesticker.com is a completely free website with relevant explanatory information for all the candlesticks and patterns. Moreover, the website displays a performance table for each pattern for all the world markets covered by the bulls.com© family websites, in an easy to read form. Other bulls.com© family websites share the same data base and algorithm with Candlesticker.com, and display the results in a similar manner but these results are available to subscribers only. These are critically important tables that show which patterns work best and lead to the highest trading profit in a security and a stock exchange.