Candlestick Patterns
Visual price patterns formed by one or more candlesticks on a chart that signal potential reversals or continuations in price direction.
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Explained Simply
Candlestick patterns originated in 18th-century Japanese rice trading and remain one of the most widely used technical analysis tools. Each candlestick shows four prices: open, high, low, and close. Patterns like hammer, doji, engulfing, and morning star signal shifts in buyer/seller control. Single-candle patterns (hammer, shooting star) indicate potential reversals. Multi-candle patterns (engulfing, morning/evening star) are generally more reliable. The key to using candlestick patterns effectively is combining them with volume confirmation and broader trend context — a hammer at a support level with high volume is far more significant than one in the middle of a range.
How Tradewink Uses Candlestick Patterns
Tradewink's TechnicalAnalyzer automatically detects 20+ candlestick patterns on multiple timeframes. Patterns are scored for reliability based on context: location relative to support/resistance, volume confirmation, and trend alignment. High-reliability pattern detections feed into the signal generation pipeline as one of many inputs — never used in isolation.
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