Reading price action, indicators, and chart patterns.
An evening star is the mirror of the morning star: a three-candle topping pattern — a large up candle, a small-bodied 'star' of indecision, then a large down candle closing well into the first candle's body. This article explains its three-act story of buying, exhaustion, then selling, what makes one convincing, and — as the closing article of the Technical Analysis domain — reinforces the principle that runs through all of candlestick reading: patterns describe shifts of control, they never predict them.
A morning star is a three-candle bottoming pattern: a large down candle, then a small-bodied 'star' of indecision, then a large up candle closing well into the first candle's body. This article explains the three-act story it tells — strong selling, exhaustion, strong buying — how it is read, why the middle star and the depth of the third candle matter, and why, like every candlestick pattern, it describes a shift of control across three periods rather than predicting a reversal.
The Ichimoku Cloud is a complete trend-following framework that layers five lines onto a chart to show trend, support and resistance, and momentum 'at a glance'. This article breaks down its five components — the conversion and base lines, the two leading spans that form the cloud, and the lagging span — explains how the cloud's position, thickness and colour are read, and weighs its all-in-one strength against its complexity and lag. As always, it is framed as a descriptive system, not a signal generator.
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