Market Structure/Market Psychology & History
The 18th-Century Rice Trader Who Invented the Candlestick Chart
Every red and green candlestick chart used across global markets today traces back to a single 18th-century Japanese rice merchant who built a manual flag-signal network spanning 600 kilometers to get market information days ahead of his competitors. His name was Homma Munehisa, and the trading principles he developed at Osaka's Dojima Rice Exchange — the world's first futures market — remain in..