@Traderbeauty
Hi there Jane! Hope all is good. When I started trading I was in love with candlesticks and I really studied everything about them, and I ditched the HLC bars, never gave them a chance. And I really regret it because when I started using the HLC bars and ditched the candlesticks, then I could really read the charts and understand what was happening. For me the candlesticks are too seductive and induce you in false biases. Our brains love patterns and when you become a "candlestick expert" all you can see are patterns and you get hypnotized by them, majority of the time they are misleading. You see the patterns and you don't pay attention to all the rest that is happening or has happened. The extra information that the candles give you is just that, extra information that for me is useless and just make your brain work harder.
Anyways, that is how I feel of course, if people are happy and making money with candlesticks, keep doing it. I only lost money with candlesticks.
Also, if you have been studying VSA, Wyckoff stuff, etc.. You kow that it is impossible to trade properly using a naked chart with price alone, you have just 50% of the information needed to trade, you NEED the volume information, if price is the car, the volume is the gasoline.