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Naming what a chart draws · Taiwan

What these pages do with a price picture, the word each shape is given, and what it never says.

This site is an independent guide, not a broker: it opens no accounts and holds no money. Every page points at something drawn on a price chart, gives it a word, then says what that shape does not tell anyone.

How a shape gets its name here

A description here has three parts, and none is optional:

  • Where to look. The place on the picture comes first — the block, the thin line above it, the numbers up the side.
  • The word itself. Terms such as «candle», «timeframe» or «spread» are unpacked where they are drawn, and gathered in the glossary.
  • The limit of the word. Naming a shape can be checked; what price does next cannot.

Many people lose money when they start trading, so that line sits above the instructions, not in small print below — see risk basics.

Five things drawn on a price chart

What is drawn, what it is called here, and what it stays silent about:

Drawn on the picture Word used here What it does not say
A solid block on the price side the body of a candle the order price moved in while it formed
Thin lines poking above and below that block the shadows, or wicks how long price spent out there
Numbers up one side, dates along the bottom the price axis and the time axis anything past the right edge
Empty space between one bar and the next a gap whether that space is crossed again
The shape at the right edge, still redrawing a bar that has not closed yet how it will look once it closes

Change the timeframe and every row is redrawn: one afternoon becomes a single block, or forty. Nothing in the market moved — only how much of it one shape covers. More on the chart page.

Where the naming stops

A chart records what already happened. A shape can be named; it cannot be asked what comes next. The pages describe, and stop:

  • No page says which way the next bar goes. Anything sold as certainty about that is selling something that does not exist.
  • This is not Exness. The broker's own address is exness.com; these pages describe it and do not speak for it.
  • No screen is visible from here — no chart, no account, no balance — and no money passes through this site.
  • Nothing here is personal advice. A page says what a shape is called; the money stays your decision.

Reading these pages with a chart in front of you

The words land better when something is drawn beside them:

  1. Put a picture on the screen first

    A free demo account is enough: no money at stake, nothing deposited, and a chart drawn all the same.

  2. Find the two axes before anything else

    Price up the side, time along the bottom, one shape covering one slice of that time. Until those are found, the rest floats.

  3. Write down the shape that has no name yet

    The instrument, the timeframe printed on the picture, the shape in your own words — a note answerable in the glossary or on the live chat page.

The company these pages describe

Exness is a global online broker — see what a broker is — founded in 2008. It offers trading through the Exness Terminal in a web browser, the Exness Trade app on a phone, and MetaTrader 4 / MetaTrader 5. Buttons here lead out to exness.com, where account matters go to support.

Questions about a site that describes pictures

Is this site run by the broker?

It is not. The broker's own address is exness.com; it has no hand in what is written here.

Will a page here say where the next candle goes?

It will not — a drawing of the past holds no such thing. A page names what is already there.

Why does every description end with what a shape does not mean?

Because that is the half readers are usually sold and rarely told.

A shape is called something else in another book. Which word wins?

Neither — the picture is the thing both words point at. The glossary states the wording used here.

Can anyone here see the chart on my screen?

No chart, no positions, no balance. Account questions belong to the support on exness.com, open 24/7.

Is a demo needed to follow these descriptions?

Not to read them, but a chart beside the text helps. A demo account costs nothing and holds no deposit.

Is any part of this site locked or paid?

None of it: no paid upgrades, no registration to read, nothing asking a reader for money.

Where do the descriptions get checked?

Anything about accounts, platforms or costs is verified on exness.com. What cannot be checked is left off the page.

Once a shape has a name, who decides what happens to the money?

Nobody on this page does — naming is where it stops. What to do with money remains your own call.

A shape still unnamed? Describe it on the live chat page; broader questions live in the FAQ.

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The price window

Axes, candles and timeframes, shape by shape.

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Every word in one place

The terms that appear beside the pictures.

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Somewhere to look

A practice chart with no money at stake.

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