A Very Brief History Of Candlestick Pattern

3.1 Overview
Now we have understood what the line charts and bar charts are, the next thing is the candlestick pattern. In this chapter, we will let you know what a candlestick pattern is and how it’s different from a line chart or a bar chart.
However, it isn’t much difficult to understand, let us know a bit about the history of candlestick charts and how did it come into practice.
3.2 History of Candlestick Pattern
The history of candlestick pattern starts from the 16th century. In early 1600’s, the candlestick charts are assumed to be used for trading rice in Japan. In Japanese method of technical analysis, it is called the ‘candlestick Pattern’ or simply the ‘Japanese Candle’.
Till 1710, only the physical rice trading was taking place, but then came the concept of a ‘coupon’, with a promise

Lower shadow- it indicates the low point where a stock closed.
In the image below, we can see that the candle in red color is a bearish candle as the opening price (Rs 65) is on upper shadow and the closing price (Rs 55) is on lower shadow.

Now you have understood the differences between a bullish and a bearish candle, let us have a look on a real candlestick chart of a stock. Here is a candlestick chart of stocks of KCE Coffee for 07th May to 16th July. We can see the weekly candlestick chart for closing and opening prices as each candle indicates the fluctuations in the stock prices during a week.
Let us take an exercise to understand the concept in an easier way. We will randomly choose two candles and referring the chart, we will determine the OHLC data of each candle. We picked two candles for 21st May and 25th June respectively.
The candle for 21st May is in red color. Hence, we can have an idea that it’s a bearish candle. Therefore, the upper shadow will indicate the opening price and the lower shadow will indicate the closing price of the stock.
The OHLC data for 21st May will be:
Open = 17800 (Rs)
High = 18200 (Rs)
Low = 16500 (Rs)
Close = 16700