Reading a candlestick chart

Each candle is one slice of time — a day, an hour — depending on the timeframe you choose. A chart is a row of these slices, left to right.

The thick body spans the open and the close. The thin wicks above and below reach to the highest and lowest price reached in that slice.

In Aureus a slice that closed higher than it opened is drawn in green, and one that closed lower in red — but color is never the only cue; the body's direction shows the same thing, so the chart still reads if you can't tell the two hues apart.

A candlestick chart is a record of where the price has been. It is not a forecast, and reading one does not tell you where the price goes next.