📖 Japanese candlestick charts. Part 2

Hello, we continue to study candlesticks.

⚡️Maximal/minimal

🔶 For this it is desirable for reversal candlestick to have its own high/low. In addition to the convenience of placing stop-loss on them, its own minimum/maximum also increases the chances for a long term trend after such reversal. The reason for this is in the market reflectivity, all the patterns don’t just work on their own, but they also contain market’s psychology and the methodology of huge amounts of smart money. When there is a decrease in demand and supply, smart money form the least resistant trend, and they trade!

🔶 You have probably noticed a few times that the figure’s/pattern’s price could move into the opposite direction that you expected. There are reasons for that, patterns have the necessary to complete conditions, simply of which not many know about. Even if all the necessary conditions are complete while forming a pattern, there is always a chance that the price will go opposite direction due to a number of reasons, of which we are going to talk about later. Now, you should note that its important to analyse candlesticks, as they help you to minimize risk while trading patterns.

🔶 Even though candlesticks look simple, they are a solid foundation for successful trading. They help you to find the optimal points to enter and exit trading in any patterns or whether you are trading using levels, or even if you are witnessing “third Elliott wave”... This is just a small bit of information about such a simple tool called Japanese candlesticks.

📌 Hint: if a trend is moving into a higher timeframe, you should also move to the same timeframe and start searching for reversal candlestick models at a long distance. This gives you the opportunity to trade for the entire trend duration.


⚡️Harami

🔶 "Uptake", "Hammer" and "Cloud Silver Lining" models are common reversal patterns. There are many more forms in candlestick analysis that indicate an forthcoming reversal. One of them is the "Harami" pattern: the first candlestick is large, and the second one is small, it may be a "Spinning Top" or a "Doji", but in any case, the figure of the second candlestick is inside the first one's figure. They appear both at the top of the market and at the bottom.

🔶 The peculiarity of the "Harami" model is the uncertainty of the market at the time of its appearance. Therefore, it is recommended to wait for confirmation.

📌 The following candlestick of the corresponding color can act as confirmation: green for a bullish reversal, and red for a bearish one.