One Bar Is One Fight: How to Read Open, High, Low & Close
Reading charts · September 11, 2026
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A single price bar is really four prices — open, high, low and close — and reading all four is most of the skill. One bar is one fight: the range is how wide it got, and the close is who won it.
The lesson in writing
From the video, lightly edited for reading.
See all these little marks on the chart? Every one of them is nothing more than a street fight dressed up as a line. Grab any one: that's a single round of the fight, start to finish. One little mark, four separate facts hiding inside it.
Up on top: the highest anybody paid before they got pushed out. Down at the bottom: the lowest it got shoved before it bounced. And the two little nubs sticking out on the sides: the left is where they walked in, the right is where they walked out. The whole gap, top to bottom, tells you how ugly the fight got.
So, four numbers. Open: where the bell rang and it kicked off. High: the furthest the buyers managed to drag it up. Low: the furthest the sellers managed to push it down. Close: where it stood when the final bell rang — remember that one, it's the important one. Learn those four and nothing on the chart is a stranger anymore.
And never forget the color. Green means the buyers took that round. Red means the sellers took it.
