Encyclopedia of Candlestick Charts -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- What Are Candlesticks? -- The Data -- The Price Trend -- Candle Performance -- Candles Post Breakout -- Results of Others -- Don't Write This Book -- Chapter 1: Findings -- A Number of Candles Do Not Work as Expected -- An Unusually Tall Candle Often Has a Minor High or Minor Low Occurring within One Day of It -- The Best Performance Comes from Candles with Breakouts within a Third of the Yearly Low -- Gaps Don't Work Well as Support or Resistance Zones -- Reversals Occur Most Often Near Price Extremes -- Opening Gap Confirmation Gives the Best Entry Signal -- Candles with Breakouts below the 50-Day Moving Average Give the Best Performance -- Candles with Long Bodies Sometimes Show Support or Resistance -- Tall Candles Outperform Short Ones -- Candles with Tall Shadows Get Better Performance -- Trade Bullish Candles in a Rising Primary Trend -- Trade Bearish Candles in a Falling Primary Trend -- Candle Volume Is a Poor Predictor of Performance Except for Breakout Volume -- Reversals Perform Better than Continuations -- Most Candlestick Patterns Perform Better in a Bear Market, Regardless of the Breakout Direction -- Price Has to Have Something to Reverse -- More Candles Appear within a Third of the Yearly High than Elsewhere in the Yearly Trading Range -- Where Price Closes in the Last Candle Line of the Pattern Helps Determine Performance -- Chapter 2: Statistics Summary -- Overall Rank -- Reversals: Bull Market -- Continuations: Bull Market -- Reversals: Bear Market -- Continuations: Bear Market -- Performance after 10 Days: Bull Market/Up Breakouts -- Performance after 10 Days: Bear Market/Up Breakouts -- Performance after 10 Days: Bull Market/Down Breakouts -- Performance after 10 Days: Bear Market/Down Breakouts -- Chapter 3: 8 New Price Lines.

Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 4: 10 New Price Lines -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 5: 12 New Price Lines -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 6: 13 New Price Lines -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 7: Abandoned Baby, Bearish -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 8: Abandoned Baby, Bullish -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 9: Above the Stomach -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 10: Advance Block -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 11: Below the Stomach -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 12: Belt Hold, Bearish -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 13: Belt Hold, Bullish -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 14: Breakaway, Bearish -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Sample Trade -- Chapter 15: Breakaway, Bullish -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines.

Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- Chapter 16: Candle, Black -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 17: Candle, Short Black -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 18: Candle, Short White -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 19: Candle, White -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 20: Concealing Baby Swallow -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Trading Tactics -- Chapter 21: Dark Cloud Cover -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 22: Deliberation -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 23: Doji, Dragonfly -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 24: Doji, Gapping Down -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 25: Doji, Gapping Up -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 26: Doji, Gravestone -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 27: Doji, Long-Legged -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 28: Doji, Northern.

Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 29: Doji, Southern -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 30: Doji Star, Bearish -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 31: Doji Star, Bullish -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 32: Doji Star, Collapsing -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Chapter 33: Downside Gap Three Methods -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 34: Downside Tasuki Gap -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 35: Engulfing, Bearish -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 36: Engulfing, Bullish -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 37: Evening Doji Star -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 38: Evening Star -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 39: Falling Three Methods -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Sample Trade -- Chapter 40: Hammer -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance.

Chapter 41: Hammer, Inverted -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 42: Hanging Man -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 43: Harami, Bearish -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 44: Harami, Bullish -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 45: Harami Cross, Bearish -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 46: Harami Cross, Bullish -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 47: High Wave -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 48: Homing Pigeon -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 49: Identical Three Crows -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 50: In Neck -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 51: Kicking, Bearish -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 52: Kicking, Bullish -- Behavior and Rank -- Identification Guidelines -- Statistics -- Trading Tactics -- Sample Trade -- For Best Performance -- Chapter 53: Ladder Bottom.

Behavior and Rank.