Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Candlestick charts are a cornerstone in technical analysis and perhaps one of the earliest forms of technical analysis, having been developed in the 18th century in Japan by rice trader Munehisa Homma ...

What does a modern stock market analyst and a 17th century Japanese rice trader have in common? A little more than you may think. In fact, both have been known to be fond of a very particular charting ...

If you’ve ever looked at a trading platform and seen a chart filled with rectangles and vertical lines, you’ve already encountered a candlestick chart — even if you didn’t realize it. These colorful ...

When custom homebuilder-turned-stock-trader Ryan Litchfield discovered candlestick charting, he saw the symbols as "a mystery that seemed full of secrets." If you understood the patterns, he thought, ...

With the stock markets on a bull run fuelled by ample liquidity, interest in guessing the next move of the indices and individual stocks is running high. Technical analysis could come in handy here.

Casey Murphy has fanned his passion for finance through years of writing about active trading, technical analysis, market commentary, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), commodities, futures, options, and ...

The origins of candlestick charting can be traced to the rice futures markets of 18th-century Japan. A merchant and trader named Honma Munehisa from the town of Sakata is widely credited as the father ...