Heikin Ashi Candle Chart vs. OG Japanese Candle Chart

Yo, so how's Heikin Ashi not like your basic candlestick though? 🤔

Let’s vibe through the diff between a Heikin Ashi candlestick and a traditional Japanese candlestick chart, fam. 📈✨

Real talk, sometimes a pic can say more than a thousand pips, so let's peep some actual charts, shall we? 👀

First up, check out this traditional Japanese chart of GBP/JPY on the daily (1D) timeframe:

Here’s the same GBP/JPY shown with a Heikin Ashi candlestick chart. 🕯️👌

Let’s slap those charts side-by-side for max comparison: 🎨

The chart on the LEFT is the traditional Japanese candlestick chart, and the chart on the RIGHT is the Heikin Ashi chart. 👉

Look at the chart on the right, you can tell directional vibes are much smoother than its lefty counterpart. 🚀

Candles on traditional Japanese charts be changin’ colors like every minute — it’s messy bro.

But Heikin Ashi? It’s got that consistent color theme, making it way easier to catch those trend waves. 🌊

Heikin Ashi likes to stay green during uptrend hype and red when it’s sliding down. 🔴🟢

Compared to those traditional ones that flip-flop colors, like, every other sec even if it's zooming in one direction. 🎯

These candlesticks switch shades almost as often as Kylie Jenner changes her looks. 💁‍♀️

You prolly didn’t even catch that pic above is a candlestick chart. 😂

Anyways, back to our side-by-side chart action… 😎

You can see the Heikin Ashi chart is so much smoother in how it flexes price action. 🔄

No cap, forex peeps love Heikin Ashi since it chills the noise down in the chart and lets them peep trends much more clearly. 🚀📊

What’s the diff between Heikin Ashi and your classic Japanese candlestick chart? It’s in the price deets like where it opens and closes, fam. 💡

Peep closely at Heikin Ashi, and you'll notice each Heikin Ashi candlestick starts from the MIDDLE of the one before, not where the last one left off. Mind-blown yet? 🤯

Heikin Ashi candlesticks “act” this way ’cause of their wild calculations. 🧮

In the next lesson, you’ll find out how to flex Heikin Ashi calculations so you can totally blow minds at dinner parties. 🎉📚