What is timeframe?Timeframe
How much time each candle covers, such as 5 minutes, 1 hour, a day or a week.
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- Technical Analysis: Candles & ChartsHow to Read a Candlestick Chart
One candlestick records four prices for a period of time: the open, high, low and close.
- Technical Analysis: Candles & ChartsMultiple Timeframes
In the same market, the daily chart can be in an uptrend while the 5-minute chart is falling. Learn to look at the bigger timeframe first, then the smaller one.
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