A candlestick depicts the battle between Bulls (buyers) and Bears (sellers) over a given period of time. 1  An analogy to this battle can be made between two football teams, which we can also call the Bulls and the Bears.
1. check stub-the part of a check that is retained as a record. counterfoil, stub. record-anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events; the film provided a valuable record of stage techniques.
Stub period. In finance, in particular with reference to bonds and swaps, a stub period is a period of time over which interest accrues which is not equal to the usual interval between bond coupon. These normally occur because the interval between coupons does not fit neatly into the period that the bond was issued for, thus sometimes a bond`s final or first .... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stub_period