Timeframes build candles
Merge smaller candles into one larger one. · 5 min
Charts in this lesson are generated. They are not real market data and predict nothing.
A 5-minute candle is five 1-minute candles merged; a daily candle is every minute of the session. The simulator builds every timeframe from the same 1-minute bars, so they always agree.
merged open = first open · merged high = highest high · merged low = lowest low · merged close = last close
Worked example
opens: 111.09, 111.82, 112.17, 112.45, 112.43 → first = 111.09
highs: 112.02, 112.34, 112.60, 112.51, 112.53 → highest = 112.60
lows: 110.91, 111.67, 111.98, 112.35, 112.35 → lowest = 110.91
closes: 111.82, 112.17, 112.45, 112.43, 112.46 → last = 112.46
A pattern on one timeframe can vanish on another. Three red candles and a green one can merge into a single hammer, or into a plain down candle. Always say which timeframe you are reading.
Three 1-minute candles: (O 10.0 H 10.4 L 9.9 C 10.3), (O 10.3 H 10.8 L 10.2 C 10.6), (O 10.6 H 10.7 L 10.1 C 10.2). What is the 3-minute candle?