When you enter the realm of prop trading, you very soon realize: you can't afford to figure things out slowly. When you trade on a prop firm's money, you're playing by very tight rules—daily drawdown limits, maximum loss stops, profit targets, and even time limits at times. That means every choice counts. Which is why chart-reading skills are not only "nice to have" but absolutely necessary. And at the very center of chart analysis? Candlestick patterns.

If you're trading on MetaTrader 5 (MT5), you've already learned that it's a platform loaded […]