Trade Forex Trading

What's Candles Charts?

Types of Charts

There are three types of xauusd charts: Line chart, bar chart and candlestick chart.

Candlesticks Charts - the candles charts use the same price data as xauusd bar charts (open, high, low, & close). However, they represent the charts in a more easily identifiable way which resembles a candlestick that has wicks on both ends.

How to Read Candles Charts

The rectangle part of candlestick is known as the body.

The high and low are described as shadows & are drawn as poking lines.

Types of Charts & How to Read Them

Various Types of Charts - Types of Charts and How to Read Them

The color of trading candle is either blue or red

  • (Blue or Green Colour candle) - price headed up
  • (Red Colour candle) - price moved down

Most xauusd platforms like the MT4 software, use colors to mark the direction of price. Colors used are blue or green: - green xauusd candle when price moves up, red xauusd candle when price moves down.

What's Line Charts?

A line chart in Trade draws the closing price of a xauusd and connects this closing price to the closing price of next time period therefore forming a continuous xauusd line chart which draws the movement of price movement.

Line Chart - draws a continuous line connecting closing prices of a on the price chart.

Different Types of Charts - Types of Charts and How Do I Read Them?

Various Types of Charts - Types of Charts and How to Read Them

What's Bar Charts?

Bar Charts are charts representation of price portrayed as sequence of OHCL bars. O-H-C-L represents OPEN HIGH LOW and CLOSE. Opening price is highlighted as a horizontal hyphen on the left and closing price as a horizontal hyphen on the right.

Different Types of Charts - What is Candlestick Charts?

Various Types of Charts - What is a Bar Charts