Although this word is Farsi (Persian) , but ts borrowed in arabic as well, and Almawrid English arabic lists is as well.


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Note added at 1 hr (2008-07-01 00:23:10 GMT)
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They are a kind of forex charts,presumably because they look like candlestick!! There may be an Arabic equivalent, but not one that I've heard.

Here's what wikipedia has on its history.

History
Candlestick charts are said to have been developed in the 18th century by legendary Japanese rice trader Homma Munehisa. The charts gave Homma and others an overview of open, high, low, and close market prices over a certain period. This style of charting is very popular due to the level of ease in reading and understanding the graphs. Since the 17th century, there has been a lot of effort to relate chart patterns to the likely future behavior of a market. This method of charting prices proved to be particularly interesting, due to the ability to display five data points instead of one. The Japanese rice traders also found that the resulting charts would provide a fairly reliable tool to predict future demand.

The method was picked up by Charles Dow around 1900 and remains in common use by today's traders of financial instruments.

Since you have mentioned that the context is in trading this term shoud carry the following meaning:

A price chart that displays the high, low, open, and close for a security each day over a specified period of time. تحديد الأسعا ر بإستخدام الرسم البياني الذي يظهر ارتفاع وانخفاض،وفتح و إغلاق العمليات كل يوم على مدى فترة زمنية محددة .

http://stockcharts.com/school/doku.php?id=chart_school:chart...

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Note added at 7 hrs (2008-07-01 06:58:42 GMT)
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أقترح مصطلح (البيان الشمعي للأسعار)ـ

الشمعه الخضراءمعناها أن سعر الاقفال كان أعلا من سعر الفتح و الشمعه الحمراء معناها أن سعر الاقفال كان أقل من سعر الفتح . هذه الشموع تساعد المحلل المالي علي التنبؤ بتحركات السعر في الأجل القصير.ا

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