Candle Anatomy
A wick is the thin line above or below a candle body. It shows the highest and lowest prices reached during that candle before it closed, even if price could not stay there.
A wick shows where price traveled during a candle, even if it did not stay there by the close.
That makes wicks useful for spotting rejection, testing behavior, failed pushes, and moments where one side briefly lost control.
In simple words, a wick often tells you what price tried to do but could not fully maintain.
Price moved higher during the candle, but sellers pushed it back down before the close.
This can suggest rejection from above or resistance from sellers.
Small wicks often suggest cleaner directional control and less dramatic rejection during the candle.
This can happen when price moves smoothly in one direction.
Price moved lower during the candle, but buyers pushed it back up before the close.
This can suggest rejection from below or support from buyers.
Important:
A wick does not automatically mean reversal.
Wicks become much more meaningful when they appear near key levels, support or resistance, liquidity zones, or after a stretched move.
Price tried to move much higher, but sellers rejected the push before the close
Price tried to move much lower, but buyers rejected the push before the close
Long wicks can show that price was rejected from an area.
Wicks can reveal brief moves above or below a level that did not hold.
They show that price explored an area, but one side pushed back before the candle finished.
Mistake: reading every long wick as a reversal signal
Wicks are useful, but they need context.
A wick near a major level, after a stretched move, or during a liquidity sweep matters far more than a random wick in the middle of noise.
MarketBiasTracker does not treat wicks as stand-alone buy or sell signals.
Instead, wicks are useful as supporting evidence for rejection, sweep behavior, failed continuation, or reaction at key structure.
Wicks can help MBT identify whether price was pushed back from an area.
Long wicks can support a liquidity sweep or failed breakout interpretation.
MBT reads wicks together with trend, RSI, structure, EMAs, and support or resistance.
Rejection from above.
Rejection from below.
Price tried something but could not fully hold it.
Combine it with levels, structure, and context.
Next we can convert the next Learn page into this same RSI standard layout one by one.
