1 · Price chart
What it shows. Price over time as candlesticks. Each candle is one period, such as an hour. Its body spans the opening and closing price; the thin lines above and below, called wicks, mark the highest and lowest prices reached in that period. A single dashed line carries the latest price across the screen.
What you learn. Where price has recently paused, turned or moved quickly, and how large each swing was compared with the others.
Example. Four candles in a row with long wicks below their bodies show that sellers pushed price down and buyers brought it back each time. That describes the past; it does not say what happens next.
Limits. In this illustration the candles are invented and cannot be changed. The workspace illustrations use no live market data.