First time looking at a chart, and every line looks like gibberish?
We take candlesticks apart from the ground up — green and red, the body and the wicks, and what those coloured lines are actually telling you. Start by learning to read what the coin you bought is doing right now.
Hands-on tools
Learn and practise: turn "reading candles" into something you do
Reading alone doesn't stick. With a couple of tools you can actually click, candle patterns sink in faster and stay longer. All front-end only, no data collected.
Hammer, doji, engulfing, morning star… the common candle patterns in one table, each one drawn for you, ready to check against the chart.
Here's a candle — can you name the pattern? Run a few rounds and lock the shapes into memory.
Risk calculator, position size, break-even — run the numbers before you place a trade.
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All notes
From a single candle to reading a whole chart
Read them in this order and you've got a path that runs from zero to reading a chart on your own. Each note is kept as short and as specific as we can manage.
The most complete note. It ties green and red, body and wicks, timeframes, and where to find all of this on the exchange screen into one path. Read it first and the other notes go down much easier.
Body, wicks, open, close, high, low — four prices hiding in it.
Hammer, doji, engulfing — learn them one picture at a time.
What the 5, 20 and 60-day lines each look at.
We explain how it works, but we don't use it to predict.
Why this "signal" fools people so often.
Upper, middle, lower — a touch isn't a reversal.
One day of closed hourly candles, worked from typical price to running total.
No mysticism — just marking the key prices on the chart.
Join the lows or highs into a slant and see if the direction holds.
Rising volume and falling volume mean very different things.
When to use each of the three order types.
That column of red and green numbers is orders that haven't filled.
Demo first, real money later — with a security checklist.
Switch timeframes, add moving averages, draw lines — step by step.
On OKX, UTC+8 daily candles run midnight to midnight Beijing time and UTC ones 08:00 to 08:00.
In the OKX app, set Chart display to TradingView in the gear menu first; on the web, use Gann and Fibonacci Tools.
Bought a coin and want to go on-chain? The first step from exchange to wallet.
Pick the wrong timeframe and a "trend" can be an illusion.
What technical analysis can and can't do — it isn't fortune-telling.
The mistakes beginners make most — spot them early and lose less.
The red/green mix-up beginners make most, the opposite of some stock markets.
That single line and the candles — which should a beginner watch?
How often to check, and how to stop the screen from rattling you.
Full article index
All 23 notes, sorted by topic
Want to jump straight to a topic? Pick it here. Every note is linked below, grouped as "basics → patterns → indicators → chart setup → pitfalls".
Candlestick basics
Candle patterns
Indicators
Reading & chart setup
- Support and resistance
- How to draw a trend line
- Reading volume alongside price
- Limit · market · stop orders
- How to read the order book and depth chart
- Signing up for OKX, start to finish
- Setting up the chart on OKX
- What time does the OKX daily candle close?
- How to draw Fibonacci retracement on OKX app & web
- Getting started with the OKX Web3 Wallet
Mindset & pitfalls
- Why candles can't predict the future
- The chart-reading traps beginners fall into
- Do you have to watch the chart all day?
Hands-on tools
About this notebook
Written for anyone looking at a chart for the first time
Kxianbi is kept up by a small editorial desk. We're not analysts and we don't make calls — we lay out the basics of reading a chart in an order a beginner can follow. Steps on the exchange screen are checked against the exchange's public help pages, and when we get something wrong we fix it in the open, on the corrections log.