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The Beginner's Guide to Trading Candlestick Patterns

The Beginner's Guide to Trading Candlestick Patterns

Ryan O’Doherty, Head of Product Development at CMC Markets, gives us his beginner’s guide to trading with candlestick charts. He guides us through nine of the different candlestick patterns, using the CMC Markets trading platform to illustrate each pattern at multiple time intervals.

These candlestick charts include the doji, the morning star, the hanging man and three black crows. Ryan will talk through how to use these charts in practice, and what they mean for your trading strategy.

To see how to use candlestick charts within your own trading process, watch the full video below:

 

 

Thanks for watching; be sure to catch the other videos in this series: Learning to trade with Fibonacci retracements and The top 5 trading mistakes to avoid.

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