The issues that affect the market are many and most time it is very difficult to summarize all the information coming into the market and make an informed investments decision. I do used technical indicators to analyze the market before investing and we have many traders and investors that holds the views that we must used technical and fundamentals indicators in analyzing the market in other to be able to make an informed investments decision. I believe that candlestick formations and patterns contains information about both technical and fundamentals issues that came into the market. Should I continue using candlesticks formation in interpreting the market or something might happen happen that might suspend candlesticks formation information.
Analysing the market and doing the research is good but at the end of the day it is the strategy you use that gives you profitable trades.
If you strategy is wrong then all of your research and analysis will go in vain but if your strategy is good then even wrong analysis could give you profits.
Continue with what you are doing and if it earns you profits then you should be fine doing that but if not then try changing the strategy.