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Candlestick Wick Analysis in Trading


Candlestick wicks often contain critical information about buying and selling pressure that body patterns alone may not reveal. By analysing wick length and position, traders can understand price rejection, momentum shifts, and liquidity zones.

In forex and CFD markets, sessions run long and liquidity shifts across the day. That setup often produces rejections at session boundaries, round numbers, and structural levels. Wick analysis trading may offer a quick read on sentiment that body-only views can miss. This article explains the candle wick meaning and outlines several strategies traders may use.

What Candle Wicks Show in Price Action
Candle wicks, or shadows, are the thin lines above and below a candlestick's body that indicate how far the price moved during a specific period. The upper wick marks the highest price reached during the candle's period, and the lower wick marks the lowest.

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EUR/GBP: June ECB Meeting Could Bring the Period of Equilibrium to an End


Fundamental backdrop
The divergence in the monetary policy paths of the ECB and the Bank of England is creating a mixed outlook for the pair. Having completed a cycle of eight consecutive rate cuts in 2025, the ECB left its deposit rate unchanged at 2.0% at its April meeting. At the same time, according to Trading Economics, markets are assigning a high probability to a 25-basis-point rate increase as early as 11 June.

The Bank of England, by contrast, remains in wait-and-see mode. On 29 May, Governor Andrew Bailey suggested that inflation could temporarily exceed its target level, indicating that a rate increase from the current 3.75% is unlikely in the near term. As a result, the interest-rate differential between the two central banks could narrow as early as June, and this scenario is weighing on sterling.



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