Candlestick chart

A popular method of charting price fluctuations that displays an asset's opening, closing, high, and low prices for the period.  Points on a candlestick chart are represented as a box, called the real body, with a vertical line on both the top and bottom.  White-bodied boxes represent upward movement in the price of the asset: the bottom of the body is the opening price and the top of the body is the closing price.  Black-bodied boxes represent downward movement in the price of the asset: the bottom of the body is the closing price and the top of the body is the opening price.  In both cases, the top vertical line shows the high price for the period, and the bottom vertical line shows the low price for the period. See: Real body.