Reading Price Charts: candlesticks, trends, support and resistance (education only)

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I'm learning "Reading Price Charts: candlesticks, trends, support and resistance (education only)" on The Future Market. Lesson 1: "What a chart can and cannot tell you".

What the lesson teaches:
- Education only. This lesson explains ideas. It is not a recommendation to buy or sell anything.
- Technical analysis means studying past prices and volume on charts. Fundamental analysis means studying the value of what is being traded (for a company: its sales, profits and debts; for a currency: interest rates and the economy). Many people use both.
- A chart shows history only. Every chart idea in this course is a way of describing the past, not a promise about the future.
- What the research says (honestly): a 2007 review by economists Cheol-Ho Park and Scott Irwin looked at 95 modern studies of chart-based trading rules. 56 found positive results, 20 negative and 19 mixed. The authors warned that many studies had problems, such as data snooping (trying so many rules that some look good by luck), choosing rules after seeing the results, and difficulty measuring risk and trading costs. They said profitability could not be considered proven.
- Every trade has costs (fees and the spread, see course 5.5). A chart idea that looks good before costs can lose money after costs.
- A chart CAN show you - A chart CANNOT show you
- Where the price has been - Where the price will go next

The exercise I'm working on:
Pick one market. Write a five-line "chart diary" for the last year: where it started, its highest point, its lowest point, where it is now, and one big move you can see. Do not write any prediction. Do not place any trade.

I'm stuck. Please:
1. Explain the main idea in plain, simple words with one everyday example.
2. Walk me through the exercise one small step at a time. Ask me what I've done so far before giving the next step.
3. Don't just give me the final answer. Help me do it myself, and check my work when I share it.
4. This is for learning only. Remind me to check with a licensed professional before I make a real decision about my own money, health or legal situation.

I'm a parent helping my child (about 8 years old) with a lesson called "What a chart can and cannot tell you" from the course "Reading Price Charts: candlesticks, trends, support and resistance (education only)".

Here's what the lesson says:
A price chart is like a diary of a price. It tells you where the price has been. It cannot tell you where the price will go tomorrow, just like your diary cannot tell you what will happen next week.

The activity:
Pick one market. Write a five-line "chart diary" for the last year: where it started, its highest point, its lowest point, where it is now, and one big move you can see. Do not write any prediction. Do not place any trade.

Please explain this so an 8-year-old understands: short sentences, a fun everyday example, and no hard words.
Then give me 3 simple questions I can ask my child to check they understood, and a way to do the activity together, one tiny step at a time.
Keep it general and educational. This is not advice for a real situation.