Quite obviously the most important aspect to any bar chart is the bar itself. There is an abundance of information conveyed in each individual bar, let alone a series of them together – and many traders do not take the time to analyse each individual bar to see how it fits into the overall picture. [...]

Bar Charting popularized itself when Line Charting did not provide enough depth and analyses into the buying and selling pressures of the market. Bar Charts allow the technical analysis to represent considerably more information on the chart itself – including mainly, the Open, High, Low and Close. In bar charts, the horizontal or x-axis is [...]