Candles in thirty seconds
Each candle covers one time slice: a minute, an hour, a day. The body runs from the opening price to the closing price. Green means it closed higher than it opened, pink means lower. The thin lines above and below, the wicks, show how far price went in between before being pushed back. Long wicks mean a fight; long bodies mean one side won.
Volume is the truth serum
The bars under the chart are volume: how much was traded in that candle. A green candle on heavy volume means real buying. A green candle on tiny volume means one person nudged a thin pool. When price keeps rising while volume shrinks, the buyers are running out. That is usually where the top is.
Timeframes
- 1m and 5m: launch action and scalping. Noisy. Every candle is a mood swing.
- 15m and 1h: the honest view of a coin's day. Where trends are visible.
- 4h and 1D: for the survivors. If a memecoin has a daily chart worth reading, it has already beaten the odds.
Three patterns that mean trouble
- The dev dump: one huge pink candle on enormous volume, out of nowhere, usually right after a pump. The creator sold. Whatever comes after is other people fighting over the remains.
- The bundle unwind: a series of medium pink candles at regular intervals, each on similar volume. Wallets from the same operator selling in turns to avoid one big red bar.
- The dead cat: after a crash, a sharp green candle that recovers a third of the drop and then fades on falling volume. Not a recovery. Exit liquidity for the people who bought the top.
Open a live chart in the coin checkSix timeframes, volume, last price, all from the contract address.