Almost everyone reads candlestick charts. Almost no one knows where they came from. This piece traces the real history. The West built its own tools first: the 1867 stock ticker, tape reading, Dow Theory, and the OHLC bar chart. Japan took a different path at Osaka's Dojima Rice Exchange, formally authorized in 1730, where a margined rice futures market became the candle's true birthplace. Legend credits trader Munehisa Homma with inventing the chart in the 1700s. He was real and brilliant, but the record does not back the claim. Analyst Steve Nison, who brought candlesticks west in 1989, argues the chart more likely emerged in the late 1800s, decades after Homma died. The candle's edge is its colored body, showing at a glance whether buyers or sellers won. The article also covers three variants: Heikin-Ashi, Renko, and Kagi. The bigger lesson is a skill: telling documented fact from trading folklore.

Candlestick Charts: The History Behind the World's Favorite Price Chart

This week ApeX Omni ships two new ways to trade events. ApeX Prediction launches with the 2026 World Cup campaign: trade match outcomes the way you would on Polymarket, earn Prediction Points, and survive an elimination race to split a 1,000,000 point pool after the final. Event Contract Trading also goes live on web and mobile app. Predict Up or Down over a short window, from 3 minutes to 1 hour, with no leverage and a fixed payout. The total assets area now shows a dedicated prediction account so you can track these positions in one place. On listings, TON has been delisted as part of its move to GRAM. The older Prediction Perp product has been fully closed. App version 3.57.0 brings Event Contract Trading and the prediction account to mobile. Here is everything that shipped.

ApeX Omni Weekly Update: World Cup Prediction Survival and More...

World Cup 2026 prediction markets have grown into a multi-billion-dollar arena. Each outcome trades as a binary contract priced between $0 and $1, where the price equals its implied probability and a winning contract settles at $1. Kalshi alone processed over $344 million on World Cup contracts by June 17, 2026. This guide covers how these markets work, how they differ from sportsbooks, and why a continuous exchange lets you exit before an event resolves. It then walks through trading the World Cup on ApeX Omni, which combines prediction markets with perpetuals, spot, and tokenized stocks. Positions are fully spot-based, so there is no leverage and no liquidation risk. You buy YES or NO, with pricing sourced from Polymarket order books. It also covers ApeX's dedicated World Cup Prediction Campaign, a points-based format running June 16 to July 31, 2026, that lets you play all 104 matches for a share of a 1,000,000-point prize pool with no cash at risk.

World Cup 2026 Prediction Markets: How They Work and How to Trade Them

ApeX Prediction is launching alongside the biggest sporting event on the planet. Through the 2026 World Cup, you can trade event outcomes on ApeX the way you would on Polymarket, then turn correct calls into Prediction Points. Points build through registration, trading, referrals, and winning streaks. They also decide who survives a knockout-style elimination that begins at the semifinals. Make the right calls, stay in the upper tiers, and you join the group of survivors splitting a 1,000,000 point pool after the final. This guide walks through how prediction pricing works, how to earn and spend points, how the elimination and streak systems run, and the full terms.

ApeX Prediction Hits the World Cup: Outlast the Field, Split a Million Points

This week brought one of our biggest RWA expansions yet, with seven new RWA Perpetuals trading pairs launching across three days. World Cup trading arrived in Prediction Spot on both web and app, complete with multilingual support and richer content. We retired the Prediction Contracts module across Omni-web and Omni-H5, removed the Beta label from RWA Perp, and opened up Mantle USDT deposits. Traditional Chinese documentation is now live on GitBook, the SPCX Trading Competition is running, and NBA Finals prediction rewards have been paid out. App versions 3.56.1 through 3.56.3 are rolling out, with 3.56.3 expected on the app stores this Sunday. Here is everything that shipped.

ApeX Weekly Update: Seven New RWA Perpetuals and World Cup Predictions Go Live

Some of the best megatrend trades are not always the obvious names. While most investors focus on headline giants, companies like Lumentum Holdings (LITE) and Rocket Lab USA (RKLB) are building the infrastructure powering the next wave of growth. Lumentum supplies the optical chips and photonic components keeping AI data centers running at scale, while Rocket Lab is expanding beyond launches into satellites and defense contracts as demand for low Earth orbit infrastructure accelerates.

This article breaks down what each company does, their latest 2026 financial performance, the bull and bear case for both stocks, and the key catalysts traders should watch. It also explores how traders can gain exposure to these narratives through LITE and RKLB perpetual contracts on ApeX Omni with up to 50x leverage.

Lumentum and Rocket Lab: Two Infrastructure Bets on AI and Space

Broadcom and Marvell are the two cleanest public proxies for the custom-silicon layer of the AI buildout. Broadcom is the diversified heavyweight, posting record Q2 fiscal 2026 revenue of $22.2 billion and AI semiconductor sales of $10.8 billion, backed by multi-gigawatt commitments from Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta. Marvell is the leaner, faster-growing challenger, hitting record Q1 fiscal 2027 revenue of $2.418 billion and raising its full-year outlook on exceptional AI bookings. Both names carry elevated volatility into earnings, and both tend to move together on any AI-capex headline. That makes them natural instruments for directional AI bets and for pair trades between the heavyweight and the challenger. Both now trade as perpetual contracts on ApeX Omni with up to 50x leverage, long or short, without owning the underlying stock.

Marvell vs Broadcom: The Two AI Chip Stocks Powering the Data-Center Boom

The SPCX-USDT RWA contract is now live on ApeX. To mark the launch, we are opening a limited-time double reward event that lets you trade at a lower cost while competing for extra prizes. The event runs from June 10 at 10:00 to June 20 at 10:00 (UTC). Every registered user gets their SPCX contract fees cut in half for the full window, with no cap, and the reduced amount is returned afterward as an RWA trading bonus. On top of that, the top 20 users by volume share a 1,000 USDT prize pool, split according to how much they trade. The more you trade, the more you save and the more you can win. Register now and claim your seat.

SpaceX IPO Countdown: Fee Reduction and 1,000 USDT Rewards

Mantle Network has changed its USDT token standard. The original Mantle USDT has been renamed to USDT (Bridged), and Mantle now recognizes USDT0, which is minted by bridging from Ethereum Mainnet, as the only official USDT across its ecosystem. Major platforms, including Bybit, have already transitioned fully to USDT0. This creates a real risk for users: depositing USDT (Bridged) to a platform that only supports USDT0 may result in funds not being credited, and recovering those assets can cost roughly 200 USD in fees. To protect user assets and stay aligned with the evolving ecosystem, ApeX Omni is suspending deposits and withdrawals of USDT (Bridged) on the Mantle network. Existing holders are not stranded. You can still withdraw these assets through any network ApeX Omni supports, and if you want to hold official USDT0, you can withdraw to Ethereum and convert through the Mantle official bridge.

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