How to identify Japanese candlesticks patterns in Python

Gianluca Malato
Towards Data Science
6 min readNov 3, 2020

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Japanese candlesticks are one of the most important tools for a discretionary or quantitative trader. They are the first example of a particular trading style called price action.

Let’s see what they are and how they can be used in Python.

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Theoretical Physicists, Data Scientist and fiction author. I teach Data Science, statistics and SQL on YourDataTeacher.com. E-mail: gianluca@gianlucamalato.it