hey andre.... the colors of candles can be confusing at times... the red hollow body is for a day which is overall a down day but the close was higher than the open, just like you said... so its a way of the chart visually to say it was weak but recovered at the close.... slight hint of reversal ...... the green solid body has a similar line of thinking...... h

Candles will have different traits when an expert is attached! Solid candles will show negative closes Hollow candles will show Positive closes the colors will come from the highlights of an expert depending on the condition that is specified, it will then color the bar! If you look in the metastock formula section, under experts, check out the conditions for highlights! I use the highlights to specify either long position, Short position, or Neutral Position

Hmmm. To Hayseed: The graph is a 15 minute graph, so EOD and daily etc does not apply. These non-standard colours appear all over the day. This morning I have a solid green at 5:37GMT (which should have been red) on a 1 minute graph. To Henry: I had an expert attached, but one that specifies nothing under Highlights - so that should not have changed the colours. I also detached the Expert, and the graph did not change one bit. Bottom line - even without an Expert, the colours are different to industry standard. :? My confusion remains - the industry standard is to have a green candle if C>O, and red if C<O. Any other specialties/oddities are depicted using other methods, but not changing the base up/down colours. Can you guys think of anything else I may have set somewhere that makes this look odd? It is just difficult to read a chart that shows down-colours when it should be showing up-colours, and vice versa. As I said, I have detached any Experts, and I cannot think of anywhere else where I would have changed something to affect this.

I think I now see what you were trying to say about 'slight hint of reversal'... I applied the 'logic' to the 1Min graph, and you may be right (difficult for me to say as I do not know the underyling rules that would govern a 'slight hint of reversal'. Nevertheless, I think the colours are wrong. If a down, then it should be a down colour - by all means use solid vs non-solid to indicate a 'slight hint of reversal' - but the colours? Anyway, thanks Hayseed, your info does shed light on the matter. Just a pity that of I use Highlights in Experts (my workaround), it overrides the solid (no reversal)/non-solid (slight hint of reversal) indicator.

its conceivable that in very short time frames obscure events like non-synchronous trading or bid/ask bounces might give false candles.... here are the diamonds as compared with stockcharts.....h

Bonjour Patrick.... Quelle langue étaient nous employant..... quand la télévision a été inventée la couleur n'a pas importé non plus.... Les mêmes ont pu être dits pour des machines de copie, le fax, le modèle t de gué et ainsi de suite...... la couleur ajoute souvent un nouvel excédent de dimension précédemment regardé ou impossible à obtenir....... Un candlestick creux rouge de corps porte la même définition avec la plupart de prime dressant une carte des programmes, librement ou autrement..... metastock, comme vous le savez, des chutes dans ce groupe.....h :wink:

Oooooh - you are going to feel bad if he just wrote that himself.... oz_pdt_02q

hehehehe.... yall sayin my spanish wasn't good or somethin' :roll: ......maybe not, but my smarteleck more than makes up for it.......no language barrier there.......h just in case google inserted any [color=red:22ca231f70]colorful[/color] words =============================================== Hello Patrick…. What language were we using….. when television was invented color did not matter either…. The same could be said for copy machines, fax's, the ford model t and so on..…. color often adds a new dimension previously over looked or unobtainable……. A red hollow body candlestick carries the same definition with most premium charting programs, free or otherwise ….. metastock, as you know, falls in that group…..h ============================================

Hmmm, I see you saying that charts such as Netdania and Intellicharts are non-standard, ie a solid is not always a down-, and a hollow is not always an up-movement. Will have to check that out.

Patrick's version : Bablefish est genial, n'est ce pas? Merci pour la lesson sur les bougies ... Sincerement! Je suis toujours effraye par elles. Cela semble si complique. Je suis juste un simplet! BabbleFish: Babblefish n'est-il pas grand ? Merci pour la leçon sur les bougeoirs... vraiment ! Je suis calme effrayé de « em bien que. Il semble trop compliqué. Je suis juste nigaud ! What do you expect of a fish though :D