A Renko chart is kind of like a candlestick chart, except...different. Replace the candlesticks with bricks, make the bricks very brick-orderly, and change the math to price movements only...and voila: Renko chart.
What does “brick-orderly” mean? You know how bricks are evenly spaced, and how the next layer of bricks on top is placed so that the middle of the top brick is above the mortar in between the two lower bricks? That’s what Renko charts look like. Each brick isn’t placed like candlesticks, with giant ups and downs, or right next to each other. They’re laid like bricks, always 45 degrees above or below the last brick.
Every brick is either green or red, signaling bulls (upward price movement) or bears (downward price movement). The box size, which is shown in brick size, represents price.
Renko charts are designed to filter out the noise that’s in traditional candlestick charts. Movements are only included in the Renko chart if the movements are extreme enough. A new brick can only be laid if the price change surpasses the top or bottom of the last brick’s box size.
Think of Renko charts as streamlined candlestick charts...nice and bricky.
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right Well these are pages from the investing bible of
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as they tend to own stocks for a much shorter
period of time than a longer term Really invest or
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and hours So check out this chart see how the
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line basically is plodded through all those dots Yes So
they're going to stare at that try to figure out
where that line is going in the future right Get
the crystal ball or all right Well let's look at
this one where the data forms what looks like Well
the head and shoulders of someone who you know doesn't
have a neck that's Just common pattern in trading And
you know if you stopped looking at it and two
thirds of the way through there it's heading down Well
Maybe you'd be short the stock for a few days
and then you see it bottoming and then you'd be
long and try to make money that way Good luck
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here where the data appears to We'll break away from
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cut taxes again Everything went up So these were the
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or care what the company does for a living Really
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profit margins nor their debt levels on their balance sheet
nor much of anything fundamental about how their business runs
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