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Candlestick chart History

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     The Japanese using technical analysis and some early versions of candlesticks to trade rice in the 17th century. Much of the credit for candlestick development and charting goes to a legendary rice trader named Homma from the town of Sakata, Japan. While these early versions of technical analysis and candlestick charts were different from today's version, many of the guiding principles are very similar. Candlestick charting, as we know it today, first appeared sometime after 1850. It is likely that Homma's original ideas were modified and refined over many years of trading, eventually resulting in the system of candlestick charting that we now use. In order to create a candlestick chart, you must have a data set that contains: opening price highest price in the chosen time frame lowest price in the period closing price values for each time period you want to display      The time frame can be daily, 1 hour, 5 minutes, or any other period ...
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Three Way to Use Options

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Ask - An ask is what seller are demanding in order to sell it. Average daily volume - The average number of shares traded each in a particular stock. Average relative volume - How much of the stock is trading compared to its normal volume. Average True Range/ATR - How large of a range in price a particular stock has on average each day. Averaging down -  Bear - a seller or short seller of stock, if you hear the market is bear it means the entire stock market is losing value because the sellers or short sellers are selling their stocks. The sellers are in control. Bearish candlestick - a candlestick with a big filled body demonstrating that the open was at a high and the close was at a low, it tells you that the sellers are in control of the price and it is not a good time to buy. Bid - A bid is what people are offering to pay for that stock at the moment. Bid-ask spread -  The difference between what people are willing to pay to purchase a particular stock and what other pe...
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