🕯️ 캔들 흐름이 도통 이해가 안 됩니다

Price /candlestick only tells less than 50% of the context, not saying much much less.
You should learn volume next.
But volume is a huge topic. After getting acquainted with basic volume, you can dig deeper with level 2 data (liquidity, orderflow) to understand the reasons behind volume.
Some vague definitions about body or wick online wont help. Why? Coz i went down that path and cant make sense of them eventually.

the way you're approaching this, going one candle at a time, you're going to fall for a lot of traps. one candle tells you nothing. a big upward wick can be bearish, it can be bullish, it can be meaningless.

fit it into the overall story by logically piecing together what is happening hour to hour, day to day, week to week.

Day trading or scalping is pretty hard. It takes a lot of work.

You can try H4 / D1 entry as Swing trade. It cuts down all the noises and has high quality/cleaner setups.

This is perfectly normal. It takes time in the market.

There are 4 factors or dimensions to intraday trading . 1. Price , 2. Volume , 3.time and 4.flows/rotations
Candlestick only shows you a 2D picture while the whole picture is a 4D one. It only shows you price and time . But not volume or flows(options flows , order flows etc..) .

Use Renko. Renko is timeless. It's like the price reflecting on itself. Renko eliminates noise. Perhaps it's more suitable for you. I use Renko on the main chart and leave a minute chart as an auxiliary to see the strong candles.

ou’re not overthinking it — candles are the problem.

A candle is just a **summary of price over time**. It hides the *sequence*.
That’s why wicks are confusing: you don’t know **when** the high or low happened, only that it did.

Social media teaches candles as **signals** (hammer = exit, engulfing = entry), but the market does not react to shapes. It reacts to **where price is in a cycle** and **what liquidity is unfinished**.

Your hammer example proves this:

* Price dipped
* Found buyers
* Made a new high That’s not bearish — it’s continuation *unless* the cycle is already ending.

Same candle, different meaning depending on **cycle location**.

Candles don’t predict moves.
They only show **how price behaved inside a cycle**.

Once you stop asking *“what does this candle mean?”* and start asking
*“where are we in the cycle?”*, the confusion disappears.