Work through 8 invented examples. Check your answer, read the explanation and compare it with the exact values.
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One invented candle. The body runs from £100 to £104; the wicks reach £98 and £106.
| Interval | Open | High | Low | Close |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bar 1 | 100.00 | 106.00 | 98.00 | 104.00 |
Matching answer: £104, the top of the body
On this up candle, the body joins the £100 open and £104 close. The high is £106 and the low is £98. The colour compares open and close; it does not describe the next interval.
Open £102, close £99, high £105 and low £97. The longer wicks are part of the full range.
| Interval | Open | High | Low | Close |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bar 1 | 102.00 | 105.00 | 97.00 | 99.00 |
Matching answer: £3: the distance between open and close
The body is |£102 − £99| = £3. The full high-to-low range is £105 − £97 = £8. Wicks show price extremes outside the body.
The open is £102 and the close is £102.10, while the high and low are farther apart.
| Interval | Open | High | Low | Close |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bar 1 | 102.00 | 104.00 | 99.00 | 102.10 |
Matching answer: Open and close were close together, despite a wider trading range
The small body describes the small open-to-close change. The £99–£104 range shows that prices moved farther during the interval. This shape alone neither confirms a reversal nor tells you the order in which the high and low occurred.
The final candle has a small body near its high and a long lower wick. No later candles are shown.
| Interval | Open | High | Low | Close |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 110.00 | 111.00 | 106.00 | 107.00 |
| 2 | 107.00 | 108.00 | 103.00 | 104.00 |
| 3 | 104.00 | 105.00 | 100.00 | 101.00 |
| 4 | 101.00 | 102.50 | 95.00 | 102.00 |
Matching answer: The final bar recovered from a lower extreme; later direction is still unknown
The final bar traded down to £95 and closed at £102, near the upper part of its range. Its position after a decline is relevant context, but there is no later evidence here to confirm a change of trend.
First body: open £103, close £100. Second body: open £99, close £104.
| Interval | Open | High | Low | Close |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 103.00 | 104.00 | 99.00 | 100.00 |
| 2 | 99.00 | 105.00 | 98.50 | 104.00 |
Matching answer: Its £99–£104 body contains the previous £100–£103 body
This comparison is about the real bodies. The second body covers the first body’s open-to-close interval. A descriptive pattern name does not establish an entry, an expected return or what the next candle will do.
Several illustrated lows occur around £100–£101. The shaded band marks that historical area, not a promised floor.
| Interval | Open | High | Low | Close |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 105.00 | 107.00 | 101.00 | 106.00 |
| 2 | 106.00 | 109.00 | 104.00 | 108.00 |
| 3 | 108.00 | 108.50 | 100.50 | 103.00 |
| 4 | 103.00 | 107.00 | 102.00 | 106.00 |
| 5 | 106.00 | 106.50 | 100.30 | 102.00 |
Matching answer: Prices previously found lows near this area; the area can still fail
The band groups nearby past lows. It is an approximate reference area, not an order book or a guarantee. A later break, a different timeframe or a change in the underlying conditions could change its usefulness.
Assumptions: 50 shares, entry £25, planned trigger £24 and an illustrative fill at the final bar’s £22.50 open.
| Interval | Open | High | Low | Close |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25.00 | 25.50 | 24.90 | 25.30 |
| 2 | 25.20 | 25.30 | 24.50 | 24.80 |
| 3 | 22.50 | 23.00 | 22.00 | 22.80 |
Matching answer: £125: (£25 − £22.50) × 50 shares
The price loss is £2.50 per share × 50 = £125 before costs. The original £50 was a planned scenario based on a £24 exit. A conventional stop becomes a market order after triggering, so a gap can produce a worse fill.
The labels are interval start times. The invented bars cover 09:30–09:50, and the last close is £104.
| Interval | Open | High | Low | Close |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 | 100.00 | 102.00 | 99.00 | 101.00 |
| 09:35 | 101.00 | 103.00 | 100.00 | 102.50 |
| 09:40 | 102.50 | 104.00 | 101.00 | 103.00 |
| 09:45 | 103.00 | 105.00 | 102.00 | 104.00 |
Matching answer: £104, the final close in the combined interval
The combined candle opens at the first open (£100), reaches the highest high (£105) and lowest low (£99), and closes at the last close (£104). It is not an average-price candle. Aggregating bars also removes some detail about the path between those values.