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. By the end, you'll at least be able to look at the coin you bought and understand what it's doing right now.
We only make clear what each chart is saying
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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.
No mysticism — just marking the key prices on the chart.
Rising volume and falling volume mean very different things.
When to use each of the three order types.
Switch timeframes, add moving averages, draw lines — step by step.
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.
Real mistakes we've made — follow along 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.
About this notebook
Written for the version of us who couldn't read a chart two years ago
Kxianbi is kept up by a few ordinary people who've made the mistakes already. We're not analysts and we don't make calls — we just took the things it took us ages to figure out and rewrote them in an order a beginner can follow. We check every note by hand in a real trading screen, and when we get something wrong we fix it in the open, on the corrections log.