doji
n.— «In no time you’ll be looking at your candlestick charts (which are based on an ancient Japanese system developed to analyze rice contracts) and looking for exotic price patterns like “morning star,” “dark cloud cover” and “dragon-fly doji.”» —“Technical analysis within reach of average investor” by David Toole Toronto Star (Can.) Mar. 21, 1993. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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