Friday, March 23, 2007

Tick chart

Tick chart has the finest scale - 1 tick (individual quoting of bid and ask prices by market-maker). It is the chart of Bid and Ask quotations which look as columns on the chart of the prices.

tick chart

The maximum of each separate column is Ask, the minimum of each concrete column is Bid.

ask and bid on tick chart

As a rule tick chart is not used for the analysis of the market as its scale is so small that does not approach for the technical analysis. However tick charts are effectively used for exact definition of support and resistance levels and also to raise efficiency of purchases and sales, making it on local minima and maxima.

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