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How to Read Stock Chart for Beginner Traders

Stock charts illustrate price movements for stock indices instruments. Traders use these charts to analyze patterns in order to determine optimal buy or sell opportunities.

Stock traders use charts to study past prices. This helps predict future moves with technical analysis.

How to Get Charts

Stock charts are offered for on the platforms such as the MT4 and MT5 softwares.

To get charts on MT4 and MetaTrader 5 softwares:

MT4 - To show the chart in MT4 software follow the step:

  1. Go to the Market-Watch on the Top Right of the MT4 Trading Software
  2. Choose The Instrument which you as a trader want to trade
  3. Right Click in this Index Instrument
  4. From the Pop Up Menu Select Open Stock Chart option to open the chart in MT4 Platform

MT5 - To show the chart in MT5 software follow the step:

  1. Go to the Market-Watch on the Top Right of the MetaTrader 5 Trading Software
  2. Choose The Instrument which you as a trader want to trade
  3. Right Click in this Index Instrument
  4. From the Pop Up Menu Select Open Stock Chart option to open the chart on MT5 Software Platform

How to Analyze Charts

Price fluctuations in stock charts can be analyzed and understood through the application of trend analysis and stock pattern technical assessment.

Analysis of Stock Indices trends will ascertain whether prices are currently progressing in an ascending stock trajectory or a descending one.

Index chart patterns spot repeated shapes on charts. They help predict the next price move through pattern analysis.

The three most often used stock charts are:

Line charts connect one closing price to the next with a continuous line. While straightforward, they offer limited insight into price movements compared to other chart types that provide more detailed analyses.

Bar charts for stock indices display the open, high, low, and close prices, known as OHLC. These charts give traders extra details beyond what line charts offer.

The bar represents the opening price, high price, low price, and closing price.

The vertical line of a bar chart shows price range for a specified price period - the top of this vertical bar shows the high of the price while the bottom of this vertical bar shows the low of the price, two horizontal lines one to the left shows opening price and one on the right shows the closing price.

Candle Charts - these charts show the opening stock price, the highest stock price, the lowest price, and the closing price as well.

Open and Close Prices Help Spot Bearish or Bullish Candlesticks.

A bullish stock candle occurs when the closing price of the indices is higher than the opening price.

A bearish stock candle signifies that the closing price for the index was lower than the opening price.

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