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Single-candle decoder
Enter a candle's four prices and the tool draws the candlestick below, then tells you what its colour, body and wicks are each saying. New to candles? Start by taking one apart.
The default values are just a sample set — change them to any candle you see. This tool only explains this candle's structure; it does not predict what comes next and is not a buy or sell suggestion. Colours follow Binance's default (green up, red down); some stock markets use the opposite — see the red/green colour guide.
How to read one candle with it
Take a concrete case: say you see a candle on the chart that closes far above its open with a long wick trailing below. Enter those four prices in the boxes above and the tool draws it and tells you — this is a bullish candle with a long lower wick, meaning price was pushed down and then bought back up. The body is the net result of the tug-of-war over that period, and the lower wick is the mark left by that dip being absorbed. You don't have to memorise "which line means what"; enter the numbers, watch it break the candle down, do a few, and the language of candles becomes familiar on its own.
Good for: reading the structure of a single candle, and getting clear on what the colour, body and upper/lower wicks each say. Not for: it only explains the one candle you entered — it does not tell you whether price rises or falls next, and gives no buy or sell advice — that takes trend, position and several candles read together.
Plenty of people see one long lower wick and treat it as a "bottom signal," charging in. But a single candle proves little: the same shape mid-downtrend versus at the low of a long slide can mean completely different things. The tool breaks down "what this candle looks like" and leans toward helping you read the structure, not deciding for you — whether it actually means something depends on where it sits and how the next few candles behave. No direction is guaranteed.
To go further, first work through how a beginner reads a candlestick chart for the basics, then read what long upper and lower wicks are saying to focus on wicks, and use the candlestick pattern guide to see the common shapes several candles make together.