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Reading the price · Lesson 5 of 20

The four numbers in a candle

Each day has an opening price, a high, a low and a close. A candle draws all four: the body runs from open to close, the thin lines reach to the high and the low. A long body means the price moved and stayed moved; a long thin line means it went somewhere and came back, which usually means somebody pushed and somebody pushed back.
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