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Candlestick Quiz

The Candlestick Quiz tests your knowledge of classic candlestick patterns: hammer, doji, engulfing, marubozu and more. Core technical analysis knowledge, trained as a game. Free, with no sign-up.

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🕯️ Candlestick Quiz

Which classic candlestick pattern do you see? Hammer, doji, engulfing and more: the basics of technical analysis. The candles appear without trend context; in practice, the same shape goes by a different name depending on the prior trend (hammer or hanging man).

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Single candles are hints, not signals. Only context and testing turn them into a strategy.

Read more: Hammer & Hanging Man: derselbe Body, zwei verschiedene Geschichten (German) · Doji-Trading: Indecision-Candles richtig lesen (German)

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Each question shows one or two candles. A candle is drawn from four prices: open, high, low and close. Green means the close is above the open, red means it is below, and the thin lines (shadows or wicks) mark the high and the low. Pick the matching name from four options. The correct answer is highlighted, and the next question follows automatically. The six patterns in the quiz: a hammer has a small body at the top and a long lower shadow; a shooting star is its mirror image, with a long upper shadow; a doji opens and closes at the same price; a bullish engulfing is a red candle followed by a larger green one whose body covers the previous body completely, and a bearish engulfing is the reverse; a bullish marubozu is a green candle with no shadows, opening at the low and closing at the high.

The quiz shows the candles without the trend that came before them. In practice that context matters: the hammer shape after a rise is called a hanging man, and the shooting-star shape after a decline is an inverted hammer. Recognizing a pattern is only the first step. Whether it carries any edge in a given market and timeframe is something only a careful backtest that includes costs can tell you.