Markets Concepts for You

  SUPPORT and RESISTANCE- A share value/price will continuously keep changing i.e., by going up and down. While moving up and down there will be values/range of price between which the stock moves and find it difficult to break the range. Resistance is the upper value/price beyond which it is difficult to move any higher for the stock. Support is the lower value/price beyond which it is difficult to go any further down for the stock.   For example- In the above figure, we see that the price/candles reached Resistance and Support areas and could not move any further up or down. In the context of charting, we can also say that if we find out the Resistance/Support then we can have an idea about the price movements.   Key points about drawing Resistance/Support - a) Candle Open/Close or Wicks can be joined (minimum 02 points) with each other to find Resistance/Support. b) A Resistance/Support line can be straight or inclined. c) We see a group of candles and try to f

  CONCEPT OF CHARTS For making any inferences about a stock over a period of time, we need to know its present value and the way the stock price/value has fluctuated during the period combined with various other factors. For this purpose, we use charts provided by charting platforms/sites which reflects the changes in a stock price/value as per our preferences. Most importantly, charts give ideas about the levels/prices between which a stock is consolidating (sideways movements) and the upper/lower values beyond which the stock is struggling to move out (Resistance/Support). There are many charting platforms available for free which we can use for viewing stock charts. The charting platforms mostly used by me are TradingView and Investing. Both the platforms have hundreds of useful tools. We can directly search the name of the platform we want to see and browse through them. Platforms link and Interface Screenshots- TradingView Investi ng Here we can explore and apply each tool on

  Movements of a share/stock When the market opens, any share/stock will have a opening value for the day. This value will fluctuate during the market hours i.e., candles/graphs, etc. will be shown for the up/down/sideways movements of the price. We see a green (bullish) candle when the price moves up and a red (bearish) candle when the price moves below in comparison to the previous candle. The color of the candles depends on the closing (Close) value of the candles and it decides whether a candle is bullish (green) or bearish (red). Up Movements - the price increases Down movements - the price decreases Sideways movements - the price neither increases nor decreases. The price keeps moving in a range. Examples- In the examples above, we can see that each red candle means the price of the share went down and the green candle indicates that the price has gone up when compared to the previous candle. If we set the time frame to 1 hour then each candle will show the changes in value/price

 The price of any share continuously goes up and down during the market hours. While moving up and down the price will reach a maximum value (High) and will also go down to a minimum value (Low) . When the market opens the price of a share will also have a starting value (Open) and when the market Closes, the price of the share will also stop moving and will have a fixed value (Close) . High - Highest Value     Open - Opening Value     Close - Closing Value     Low - Lowest Value BULLISH CANDLE - It indicates that the price of the stock/instrument has gone up. It is generally green in color. BEARISH CANDLE - It indicates that the price of the stock/instrument has gone down. It is generally red in color.

CANDLE A candle tells us about the price of a share. It will show us clearly the changes in the stock price/value. If a share price goes down then we will see a red candle and if a share prices goes up then we will see a green candle. A candle has  two(02) sections- Wicks and Body as indicated below- High- Highest Value Open- Opening Value Close- Closing Value Low- Lowest Value   Wicks/Shadows give an idea about the highest and the lowest price to which the stock moved. The body gives an idea about the Opening Price and the price at which the share finally settled (Close) for the time frame. We can view candles in many time frames. If you want to see changes in a stock price per minute then you can set the candle time frame to 1 minute and accordingly you’ll see one candle each with High, Low, Open and Close price values for every minute. This time frame can be of different durations like you can set your candles time frame to 1min, 2min, 3min, 5min, 1hour, 4hour, 1day, 1week, etc