3 Main Kinds of Cryptocurrency Charts

There are 3 main kinds of cryptocurrency charts that are used to analyze market trends and crypto prices: line charts, bar charts and candlestick charts. In this blog post, I'm going to show you what they are.

3 Main Kinds of Cryptocurrency Charts

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Line charts

Line charts are the most basic used for cryptocurrency charts. They are mainly used by everyday long term investors.

They are composed of points connected by a line to form a Line chart. The points are the closing price of a specific time frame. In the example above, it is a 15 minutes time chart, which is identical to the other kinds of charts I'm going to show you, but you mostly have longer time frames for line charts.

This is a 3-month Line charts.

Investors can see clearly the trends of the market and the value of the cryptocurrency, in this case ETH versus BTC.

The line chart is not very useful for day traders and position traders because the information given by the Line chart is very limited.

It only gives one price value, which is the closing price. You can't see the opening price, the high price and the low price in a Line chart.

Bar charts

Bar charts are more useful to cryptocurrency traders and investors around the world. They are made of vertical lines and small horizontal dashes.

In Coinigy the bars are green or red, but usually they are unicolor.

The highest point of the vertical line represents the high price and the lowest represents the low price of a specific time frame.

The dash at the left represent the opening price and the one at the right represent the closing price of a specific time frame.

A Bar chart includes 4 important values that are useful for traders: high price, low price, opening price and closing price.

I believe that you are not very familiar with the Bar chart and that what you are used to see for trading cryptocurrencies are the Line chart and the Candlestick chart that I am going to show you now.

Candlestick charts

Candlestick charts are in my opinion the most used charts for trading cryptocurrencies, but traders and investors have very little knowlege on how to understand what exacly the candlesticks are saying.

If you are like me who have used them for a long time, a green candlestick meant it's bulish, a red candlestick meant it's bearish, and that's all. I am now learning more about candlesticks and what they can say is amazing.

Did you know that there are more than 150 candlestick signals and patterns?

Maybe I will make a post or several posts only about candlesticks later.

Bar charts and Candlestick charts are very similar, but the difference is in the body of the chart. When you connect the opening and closing price a box is formed. If the closing price is higher than the opening price the candle is green and if the closing price is lower than the opening price, the candle is red.

The size and color of the body, the length of the shadows are very important to indicate current trends, reversals and future price movements.

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