Understanding Stock Charts — Investment Fundamentals For Beginners

Vinsloev
3 min readNov 7, 2021

Learn Stock Fundamentals on how to read and understand stock charts. This article focus on some of the basics when it comes to investments, namely how read and understand stock charts. The article includes both a written explanation and a short video explaining each chart type in depth. The illustrations is based on Tesla stock data.

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How To Read Stock Charts (Tesla)

Learn how to read stock charts. This section dives into the chart types, Candle Bar and Line chart to see how these can be used to track stock prices over time. The examples is based on the Tesla stock (TSLA).

Candle Chart

Below is an example of a Candle chart, which is called so based on the candle like illustrations throughout the chart.

A Candle chart of the Tesla stock
Candle chart Illustration — Data is based on the Tesla Stock

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