The framework of candles is the first DVD.

The foundation for the rest of your candlestick education is built on this DVD.

The most successful traders and analysts use candles to help them overcome their trading challenges. You will learn how Steve is able to put you ahead of people who don’t use this strategy.

Steve focuses on one of the most common candle signals, the Doji, after detailing the basic construction of the candlestick line. Would you like to know if a break is likely to be false? There is a section on Spinning Tops and Doji.

Do you think candles are complicated? There are many misunderstandings that are blown apart here. By the end of this DVD, you will be able to read the markets message better and faster than ever before.

Here is what you will learn.

• Why is Steve Nison the source for your candle education
• Anatomy of the candle line
• The importance of understanding market psychology
• The popularity of candles
• The 7 major benefits of candles
• How candles can be used in all time frames and all markets
• Why candles are a tool and not a trading system
• Introduction to Steve Nison’s Trading Triad™ Success System
• Why candles give twice the information as a bar chart
• Using real bodies to gauge force of current move
• Spinning tops
• Essentials of Doji
  • Basic Criteria
  • Market Implication
  • Using doji as a protective stop
  • How to help avoid buying on false breakouts
  • Avoiding a common misuse of the doji
• Shadows
  • Why shadows must be part of your candle analysis
  • Using long lower shadows
  • Using long upper shadows
• High Wave Candles
  • Basic Criteria
  • Market implication
  • Basic psychology behind the pattern
• Starting to read the market’s message with single candle lines

The second DVD is called the essentials of single candle lines.

There is a special message to candles. How do you read their message correctly?

Steve shows you how to read what the candlestick line is telling about the health of the market, step by step. The inside secret of how to tell which way the market will break out is shown in this information.

In this DVD, Steve gives you a heads up on which candle signals are valid and why. You can use the visual insights of single candle lines to gauge when the market is most likely to reverse.

Here is what you will learn.

• Hammer Essentials
  • Construction
  • Basic criteria
  • Market implications
  • Basic psychology behind the pattern
  • Hammer and trend
  • As support
  • Dragonfly doji
• Inverted Hammer Essentials
  • Construction
  • Basic criteria
  • Cautions about this pattern
• Shooting Star Essentials
  • Construction
  • Basic criteria
  • Market implications
  • Basic psychology behind the pattern
  • As resistance
  • Example of wrong candle information
• Hanging Man Essentials
  • Construction
  • Basic criteria
  • Cautions about this pattern
• Box range trading- using candles to help predict direction of breakout
• Single candle line essentials – bringing it all together

Bull and Bear Candle Patterns are included in the third DVD.

Do you think there are too many candlestick patterns? Steve zooms in on some of his favorite double candle line patterns from both the bull and bear side.

This DVD will help you find and use the most important double candle line patterns to set up a trade. The common question is How do I know when the pattern fails? in this section.

Here is what you will learn.

• Bullish Engulfing Pattern Essentials
  • Construction
  • Basic criteria
  • Market implications
  • Using as support
  • Basic psychology behind the pattern
• Piercing Pattern Essentials
  • Construction
  • Basic criteria
  • Market implications
  • Using as support
  • Basic psychology behind the pattern
• Bull Harami Essentials
  • Construction
  • Basic criteria
  • Market implications
  • Using as support
  • Basic psychology behind the pattern
• Bearish Engulfing Pattern Essentials
  • Construction
  • Basic criteria
  • Market implications
  • Using as resistance
  • Basic psychology behind the pattern
  • Compared to western outside reversal
• Dark Cloud Cover Essentials
  • Construction
  • Basic criteria
  • Market implications
  • Using as resistance
  • Basic psychology behind the pattern
• Bear Harami Essentials
  • Construction
  • Basic criteria
  • Market implications
  • Basic psychology behind the pattern

Bull and Bear TRIPLE Candle Patterns and Continuation Candles.

Steve gives the ins and outs of the Morning and Evening Stars on this DVD.

While most candle patterns are reversal indicators, there are a select group of continuation candles. Steve has an all time favorite candle pattern. You will see how to take advantage of this signal, which is simple to recognize, but will be a boon to your trading prowess.

Steve will show an example of how NOT to use candlesticks to help you avoid one of the most common, and dangerous, mistakes made by candle traders after a review of what you learned in this and the prior DVDs.

Here is what you will learn.

• Morning Star Essentials
  • Construction
  • Basic criteria
  • Market implications
  • Basic psychology behind the pattern
  • Using as support
  • Variations
• Evening Star Essentials
  • Construction
  • Basic criteria
  • Market implications
  • Basic psychology behind the pattern
  • Using as resistance
  • Being flexible
  • Variations
• Three Advancing White Soldiers
  • Construction
  • Basic criteria
  • Market implications
  • Basic psychology behind the pattern
  • Pattern nuances
• Rising and Falling Three Methods
  • Definition
  • Construction
  • Pattern nuances
• Rising and Falling Windows
  • Definition
  • Construction
  • Using for maximum success
  • Common misuses of this signal
  • Breakaway gaps and windows
  • Fry pan bottom – definition, construction and uses
  • Dumpling Top – definition, construction and uses
• How NOT to use candles!

The first part of the DVD is called Essentials of East West.

Do you know when to start or stop a trade?

We need to focus on Western technicals and candles in order to answer these questions. One of the most important strategies for generating entry and exit points is the fusion of candlesticks with Western technical indicators.

The first of Steve’s specific western technical tools is trend lines.

Steve will show you 7 market timing strategies using candles and trend lines.

Here is what you will learn.

• How adding Western technicals improves trading success
• Candles and trend lines
  • Sloping trend lines
  • Bull and bear channels
  • Horizontal trend lines
  • Bullish Change of Polarity
  • Bearish Change of Polarity
  • Crack and Snap as a bull signal
  • Falling Off the Roof as a bearish signal
  • Importance of looking at candles in context
  • Candle by candle example of East- West

The second DVD in the Essentials of East West series.

Steve highlights the nuances of using volume with candle charts as one of his critical Western tools.

The one-two punch of candles and bollinger Bands can be used for trading success. Are you now using or thinking of using oscillators?

Steve will show you how to use 4 of the most popular oscillators as potential trade set ups and then use candles as the tradingtrigger.

Here is what you will learn.

• Candles and Volume
  • Tall white candle and volume
  • Using Volume and candles to gauge shifting market psychology
  • Volume and engulfing patterns
  • Volume and windows
  • Volume and small real bodies and doji
  • Volume and crack and snap
  • Selling climaxes
  • Candles and open interest
• Candles and Bollinger Bands
• Candles and Oscillators – Introduction
  • Introduction to oscillators
  • Basics of how to use oscillators
  • Divergence
• Candles and Stochastic
• Candles and RSI
• Candles and MACD
• Candles and Dual Moving Average Oscillator

The third DVD in the Essentials of East West series.

Steve shows two Japanese tools that can be used to gauge if the market is oversold or overbought.

How can you find support or resistance after a market goes up or down? You can see how to do this. When used in conjunction with candle signals, moving averages can be another tool.

Steve shows examples of Western price projections since candles don’t have price targets. He shows how he predicted major highs and lows in the markets months before they happened.

Here is what you will learn.

• The Disparity Index
  • Definition
  • Construction
  • Using the disparity index to gauge if market is overextended
• Record session highs and lows
  • Definition
  • Using to measure overbought and oversold levels
• Candles and Retracements
  • Using 50% retracements
  • Using Fibonacci retracements
• Candles and Moving Averages
  • Moving averages as support and resistance
  • When to use – and not use – moving averages
• Candles and Price Patterns
  • Head and Shoulders
  • Inverted Head and Shoulders
  • Box range breakouts
  • Ascending and descending triangle
  • Swing targets
  • Bull and bear flags
  • Price targets and candle confirmation
• East – West: Putting it all together
  • How candles and west called major market highs and lows

Trade management essentials is a DVD.

Even with a perfect candle signal, do you know when not to place a trade?

Or when to fold them? Have you asked what to do with the candlestick signal? The answers to these questions are dependent on the vital trade management principles revealed on the DVD.

The misuse of candles is the most common because of the lack of core principles.

Steve has the most important trade management rule and how he gets price targets. The short term trend can be used to determine if a candle signal is valid.

You can learn how to place your trades in the direction of the longer term trend. Steve asked which of the two candle patterns was the more likely reversal. You will be shocked by the answer.

Here is what you will learn.

• The danger of treating all the candle signals the same
• Importance of trade management
• Protective stops as a foundation of risk management
• Price targets
  • Price targets with pivot highs and lows
  • Price targets using price patterns
  • Price targets with bull and bear channels
• Risk/ reward- why this should be an essential component of trading
• Importance of Short Term Trend
  • A common misuse of candles and trend
  • When is a bearish engulfing pattern not a bearish engulfing pattern?
• Importance of Longer Term Trend
  • Using longer term trend to set up directional trades
  • Dual moving averages to define longer term trend 13
• How to Trade Expected News
• The If…Then Principle
  • What this principle means to your trading
  • The 3 ways to use this trading principle
• Adapting to the Market – A key strategy when in a trade
• Candles in Context
  • Using trade management to help determine the better candle signals