If price is a fight, where's the scoreboard? Meet the candlestick: the alphabet of every chart you'll ever open. Today: just the parts, one at a time.
A candle covers one chunk of time, say one day. Four prices from that day get packed into one shape. First price in: the open, the price when the day started.
Our example stock opens the day at fifty dollars. Mark it on the scale. That single tick is the open. One number, nothing else yet.
Second price: the close, where the day ended. Fill in the stretch between open and close and you get the candle's solid block: the body.
Open at fifty, close at fifty-four. Colour in that stretch. That block is the body. The body is always the open-to-close range, nothing more.
Price doesn't walk a straight line from open to close. It wanders. The high and the low get drawn as thin lines poking out of the body: the wicks.
Spiked to fifty-five, dipped to forty-nine. Body = open-to-close. Wicks = the full range price traveled.
Open 50 · Close 54 · High 55 · Low 49. Watch the whole candle assemble. This exact shape is what a chart is made of, over and over.
A new candle, no labels. Tap the part I ask for. Three taps and you've hit today's whole objective.
Four questions. Show me the parts.
A candlestick is four prices in one shape: open, close, high, low.
The body is the open-to-close range: the fat block.
The wicks reach to the high and the low: the full journey.
We did NOT read who won yet. That's deliberate, and it's next.
