{"id":3639,"date":"2024-10-23T13:02:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T13:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apex-aiexperts.com\/?p=3639"},"modified":"2025-04-28T14:42:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T14:42:17","slug":"what-is-a-japanese-candlestick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apex-aiexperts.com\/es\/what-is-a-japanese-candlestick\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00bfQu\u00e9 es una vela japonesa?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While we briefly covered&nbsp;Japanese&nbsp;candlestick charting analysis in the previous forex lesson, we\u2019ll now dig in a little and discuss them more in detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let\u2019s do a quick review first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Japanese&nbsp;Candlestick Trading<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in the day when Godzilla was still a cute little lizard, the Japanese created their own old school version of technical analysis to trade rice. That\u2019s right, rice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Traders be hustin\u2019 back then also. To rock ice, you traded rice.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Westerner by the name of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/candlecharts.com\/about\/the-nison-advantage\/#aboutsteve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steve Nison<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cdiscovered\u201d this secret technique called \u201cJapanese candlesticks,\u201d learning it from a fellow Japanese broker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Steve researched, studied, lived, breathed, ate candlesticks, and began to write about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Slowly, this secret technique grew in popularity in the \u201990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To make a long story short, without Steve Nison, candlestick charts might have remained a buried secret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Steve Nison&nbsp;<em>is<\/em>&nbsp;Mr. Candlestick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What are Japanese&nbsp;candlesticks?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The best way to explain is by using a picture:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bpcdn.co\/images\/2016\/05\/grade2-candlestick.png\" alt=\"Anatom\u00eda del candelabro japon\u00e9s\" title=\"Anatom\u00eda del candelabro japon\u00e9s\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Japanese&nbsp;candlesticks can be used for any time frame, whether it be one day, one hour, 30-minutes \u2026.whatever you want!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They are used to describe the price action during the given time frame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Japanese candlesticks are formed using the open, high, low, and close of the chosen time period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If the close is above the open, then a&nbsp;<strong>hollow<\/strong>&nbsp;candlestick (usually displayed as white) is drawn.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If the close is below the open, then a&nbsp;<strong>filled<\/strong>&nbsp;candlestick (usually displayed as black) is drawn.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The hollow or filled section of the candlestick is called the \u201creal body\u201d or&nbsp;<strong>body<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The thin lines poking above and below the body display the&nbsp;<strong>high\/low range<\/strong>&nbsp;and are called&nbsp;<strong>sombras<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The top of the upper shadow is the \u201c<strong>alta<\/strong>\u201c.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The bottom of the lower shadow is the \u201c<strong>bajo<\/strong>\u201c.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we briefly covered&nbsp;Japanese&nbsp;candlestick charting analysis in the previous forex lesson, we\u2019ll now dig in a little and discuss them more in detail. Let\u2019s do a quick review first. Japanese&nbsp;Candlestick Trading Back in the day when Godzilla was still a cute little lizard, the Japanese created their own old school version of technical analysis to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elementary","category-japanese-candlesticks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apex-aiexperts.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apex-aiexperts.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apex-aiexperts.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apex-aiexperts.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apex-aiexperts.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/apex-aiexperts.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5697,"href":"https:\/\/apex-aiexperts.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions\/5697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apex-aiexperts.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apex-aiexperts.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apex-aiexperts.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}