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Bitcoin Heikin Ashi

Is the trend still going?

The same price history, averaged out, so a run of days reads as one direction.

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  • Bitcoin Heikin Ashi (selected): Open $68,645, high $79,198, low $68,645, close $77,892

Latest displayed close: $77,892 on Sep 1, 2026. The all-time view shows 195 price bars from Jul 17, 2010 to Sep 1, 2026. The latest close is higher than the first displayed open. The displayed low is $0.01 on Oct 1, 2010. The displayed high is $126,236 on Oct 1, 2025.

  1. Which way is the trend pointing right now?

    2 months rising

    On the monthly view, the smoothed bars have closed rising 2 times in a row.

    A run is the reading here, not any single bar. One bar on its own says almost nothing.

  2. How does that compare with past runs?

    2 months
    This run so far
    5.5 months
    Typical rising run
    Middle length of the 18 finished rising runs.
    17 months
    Longest rising run
    Since monthly bars begin in 2010.

  3. What is the smoothing hiding?

    Quite a lot, on purpose. A Heikin Ashi open and close are computed averages, so they are not prices anything traded at, and no entry or exit can be read off them. The plain candle chart is the one that shows what actually happened.

    The bars also lag. Each one carries the one before it, so a genuine turn takes a period or two to show up as the run breaking. That delay is the price of the calm, and it is why this chart is better at telling you a trend is intact than at telling you it just ended.

  4. What does this mean for you?

    The current run has lasted longer than 2 of the 18 finished rising runs on this chart. That is context, not a countdown. Runs do not end because they have gone on a while, and the longest one on record ran 17 months.

    Use it the way it is built to be used: to stop reading a single loud day as a change of direction. If you want the number this smoothing is standing in front of, the live price and the plain candles are one click away.

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Understanding Heikin Ashi Candles

Where it stands today

Bitcoin's smoothed monthly bars have been rising for 2 months in a row as of .

A normal candle chart shows every twitch. One strong day inside a falling week draws a candle that points the other way, and a week of small moves in the same direction looks like a scatter of unrelated bars. That noise is real, but it is not the trend, and it is very hard to look past.

Heikin Ashi means average bar in Japanese, and that is exactly what it does. Each bar is blended with the one before it: the close becomes the average of that period's open, high, low and close, and the open becomes the midpoint of the previous bar's own open and close. Everything else about the chart is unchanged.

The effect is that a trend shows up as a run of same-colored bars with small or missing wicks on one side, and a turn shows up as the run breaking. Traders use the length of the current run, and how it compares with past runs, rather than reading any single bar.

The cost of that smoothing is worth knowing. A Heikin Ashi open and close are computed averages, so they are not prices anything traded at, and you cannot read an entry or an exit off them. The bars also lag: because each one carries the one before it, a real turn takes a period or two to show. For the actual traded prices, the plain candle chart is the one to read.