Litecoin price chart

A chart mark showing an interval's open, high, low and close. Its body connects open and close, and its wicks show the range. A candle summarizes observations; it does not preserve every trade or reveal the order in which the high and low occurred.

For example A candle can open at $50 and close at $52, with wicks reaching $45 and $55, while hiding the sequence between those values.

Common mistake Treating a candle's color as a forecast or assuming identical candles imply identical intraday price paths.

Four price observations summarizing an interval: its opening price, highest price, lowest price and closing price. Their exact source and sampling rules matter. OHLC does not describe every trade or establish whether the high occurred before the low.

For example Open $50, high $55, low $45 and close $52 can fit several different price paths inside the same interval.

Common mistake Reconstructing an exact trade sequence from four summary prices or treating an absent bucket as a zero-price candle.

A decline from an earlier peak to a later value. Maximum drawdown is the largest such fall in a stated series and period. A daily-close calculation can miss intraday losses, and an LTC price drawdown is different from the performance of an account receiving new contributions.

For example A price path from $100 to $80 and then $90 has a 20% maximum drawdown, despite ending only 10% below its start.

Common mistake Pairing a low with a high that happened later, or assuming the underlying price drawdown measures your personal DCA portfolio's losses.

How much of a stated observation window or expected set is represented by usable records. The denominator may be scheduled polls, candle intervals or another declared sample. Coverage describes availability within that scope, not measurement accuracy or a complete view of the network.

For example If 90 of 96 expected price buckets are available, interval coverage is 93.75%; this says nothing about trades hidden inside those buckets.

Common mistake Reading missing observations as zero activity, or treating high coverage as proof that the sample is unbiased and error-free.

The amount of one currency or asset quoted for one unit of another. Pair direction matters: EUR per LTC and LTC per EUR are reciprocals. A reference conversion does not include every spread or service fee and is not necessarily an executable buy or sell offer.

For example At a hypothetical 50 EUR per LTC, 0.2 LTC has a reference value of 10 EUR before spreads and fees.

Common mistake Using a rate backwards, confusing a current reference with a historical transaction rate, or assuming the displayed conversion is what a provider will deliver.

How recent an underlying market observation is, judged from its timestamp and the tool's stated rules. A source event time, collection time and page refresh time describe different things. A recent observation still does not guarantee an available or executable price.

For example Reloading a page at 12:05 does not make an observation from 11:30 newer; that source observation remains 35 minutes old.

Common mistake Reading a cache refresh as a new market event or assuming that every tool uses the same expiry threshold.