Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques
by Steve Nison · Steve Nison
The book that introduced Japanese candlestick charting to Western traders, explaining how to construct candlesticks and read single, double and multi-candle reversal and continuation patterns, then combine them with Western tools such as trend lines, moving averages and oscillators.
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