Example of supportive candles?

Hello all,

I was looking at some pairs this morning, and some of them are uptrending. I can see that they are clearly going up, so I decide to buy the retracements as entries. However, I can often see these words in forex forecasts:“Buy on supportive candles.”

What is exactly a supportive candle? Can anyone explain it to me with pictures so that I can understand this once for all?

Thanks!

Wllen1

check this post
http://forums.babypips.com/forextown/52194-what-supportive-candle.html

Basically from what I understand, supportive candles are when you see 2 candles approach a price but don’t seem to get underneath it.
Here is another good article from Investopedia: Support and Resistance Basics

‘Supportive candle’ is actually not a commonly used term. However, my guess is that this term is referring to a bullish candlestick pattern. This will include bullish engulfing, bullish morning doji star, bullish hammer pattern, just to name a few. These bullish candlestick patterns are reversal patterns, allowing you to catch the end of a downtrend that could potentially turn to be the beginning of an uptrend.