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Candle wick

The strokes above and below the body marking the high and the low of the interval.

How to read the number

A long wick means the price went that way and failed to hold there by the close.

When the metric lies

The drawing does not say when inside the interval the price was there — in the first minutes or just before the close. Those are different events with the same picture.

Also known as: candle shadow

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