Lesson
Read any candle, OHLC vs OLHC
Candle anatomy, and why the order price moved inside the candle matters.
Every candle records four prices: the open, the high, the low and the close. Most traders read those four as a shape and stop there. The shape tells you where price ended up. What it hides is the path it took to get there, and the path is where the read actually lives.
The shape tells you where price ended. The path tells you why.
02 / OHLC vs OLHC
Which extreme came first.
A single candle can be built two ways. In an OHLC candle price opens, pushes to the high first, then trades down to the low, then closes. In an OLHC candle it opens, drops to the low first, then rallies to the high, then closes. The open, high, low and close can be identical in both, but the story is opposite. One swept the upside before turning down, the other swept the downside before turning up.
Dropping to a lower timeframe inside the candle is how you find out which one happened. That sequence is the difference between a candle that took liquidity above before selling and one that took liquidity below before buying.
03 / Why the sequence matters
The same candle, opposite intent.
If a green candle made its low first and then rallied, the low is where liquidity got taken and the move up is the real intent. If it made its high first, pulled back, then closed near the high, the character is different, and how much I trust continuation changes with it. Reading the internal sequence tells me whether a candle swept a level on its way to its close, which is exactly the information the daily model runs on.
04 / Applying it
Read the candle as a sequence.
Once you read candles as a sequence rather than a shape, the higher timeframe stops being ambiguous. A daily candle that looks neutral on its own becomes a clear sweep and reverse once you see the order it built in. That is the habit this lesson builds: never take the four prices at face value, always ask which extreme came first.