When I first started trading, candlesticks just looked like colors to me. Took me a while to realize — every single candle is a snapshot of market psychology. Who won that round, who lost, where momentum flipped. It's all sitting right there.


A candle gives you four things — Open, Close, High, and Low for that time period.


Green means buyers won that round. Red means sellers did.


Here are a few patterns I've watched play out again and again over the years:


Doji — Open and Close land almost in the same spot. The market's hesitating. Nobody's committed to a direction yet.


Hammer — a long shadow hanging below the body. Sellers tried to push price down, but buyers clawed it back by the close. Often shows up right before a reversal.


Engulfing — a big candle completely swallows the previous small one. That's momentum changing hands, plain and simple.


Here's the honest part though — never take an entry off a single pattern alone. I've been burned by that mistake more than once early on. Always confirm it against the trend, support/resistance, and volume. That's when a pattern actually means something.


Which pattern do you want me to dig into next?