Piled checkers on a few points.

To pile all the checkers on a few already established points. A player who plays too safely by not leaving any blots will usually end up making candlesticks.

Putting many checkers together on one or two points. This happens when a player is playing too safe and instead of taking chances and risks he just puts one checker over the other.

A type of bar chart, developed by the Japanese, in which the price range between the open and the close is either a hollow rectangle (if the close is higher) or a solid rectangle (if the close is lower). These charts have the advantage of making the price movement more obvious visually.

A Japanese charting system which maps the open- high-low-and close of periodic price movements. A box is drawn around the open and close, and painted white if the close is above the open, and black if the close is below the open. The boxes and their little heads and tails look like candles and their wicks. Candlestick studies are full of exotic terms like Morning Star and Dark Cloud Cover; these describe how the black and white candles look, and can be interpreted as buy or sell signals.