Four-hour candles lie before they close. A price move in the final minutes can completely change a candle's shape, so wait for it to finish. The direction and speed of that last-minute smash tells you what the next candle will do.
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This is a really important concept, what I call front running. A candle. You have a candle and let's say it looks like this full body candle, it's green. We're trading a four hour chart and right now we are at 3.98 hours. It's about to close and I'm like, hey, this is a signal. I should go long. Now, what happens in those last few minutes is this candle, it gets smashed. If you're looking for the candle for information, then you have to wait for it to close. There's actually is some edge here. This kind of gets away from bp. If you watch how fast candle changes in the last few minutes, the next candle is probably going to do the same thing. And so you can start to anticipate fast changes in the candle formation.