Ok so when i started with trading I try to learn so much about candlestick patterns but when i started looking at other traders on YouTube and even generally online I hardly see anyone even consider them while trading yeah they might look at color of candle but that's all. Specially those advance candlestick patterns like rising soldiers and all that, I don't even remember anyone even mention them once while trading or in any tutorial. So my question is for trading veterans here do they use it or is it really overrated thing which serve no purpose in real time trading?
At least in my opinion candlestick patterns are simply too vague and there are too many different interpretations which can be drawn from them that I do not consider them suitable to create a successful trading strategy, it is better to use other indicators which are way more clear on their meaning and on what to do, so I am not surprised at all that you do not see too many traders using candlestick patterns, there was a time they were widely used but since then many traders have changed their strategies and they have stopped to use them.