Japanese candlestick charting and candle pattern analysis are essential tools for making market timing decisions. One should use Japanese candle patterns in the same manner as any other technical tool or technique; that is, to study the psychology of market participants. Once you become used to seeing your price charts using candlesticks, you may not want to use bar charts again. Japanese candle patterns, used in conjunction with other technical indicators in the filtering concept, will almost always offer a trading signal prior to using other price-based indicators