By Islam BarakaDefinitions
In plain terms
It encodes the open, high, low, and close for one governed bar interval in a compact visual shape.
Technical
Its meaning inherits the bar's instrument, event eligibility, interval boundaries, timestamp, session, corrections, currency, and finalization state.
Scope
A candlestick describes price geometry; it does not predict the next price movement.
Examples
- A governed lesson uses Candlestick only with declared inputs, timing, parameters, and edge-case behavior.
Common misconceptions
- A candlestick describes price geometry; it does not predict the next price movement.
Concept relationships
Required by
- Causal Pivot Detection
- Pivot Event Time
- Pivot Confirmation Time
- Right-Span Confirmation Lag
- High Pivot
- Low Pivot
- Earliest-Plateau Equality
- Pivot Separation Floor
- Pivot Neighborhood
- Outside-Bar Dual Pivot
- Pivot Candidate Warm-Up
- Pivot Right-Edge Unavailability
- Pivot Revision Window
- OHLC Pivot versus Close-Only Pivot
- Pivot Knowledge Cutoff
Where this concept is used
Tutorials planned
These catalogued topics use this concept, but their complete build has not shipped yet.
- D06-F01-A01 Primary
- D08-F01-A01 Prerequisite
Evidence and governance
- Chart Types: Candlestick, Line, and Bar CME Group · official exchange
Supports: preferred label, short definition, technical definition
Limits: Display colors and pattern interpretations are conventions rather than universal predictive rules.
- Candlestick Chart Nasdaq · official exchange
Supports: variant distinction
Limits: The short glossary entry does not define bar aggregation, data corrections, thresholds, or pattern-detection rules.
- Reviewed by
- fintech-builder-batch-006
- Last reviewed
- 2026-07-27
- Next review
- 2027-07-27
- Record status
- published