I once sat staring at the monitor screen for hours, watching the candles move up and down the chart non-stop. At that time, I only knew that green meant up and red meant down. But the longer I was involved in the world of trading, especially scalping, I began to realize that behind the candle movement there was a pattern, there was market emotion, and even a rhythm that I could sometimes feel but was difficult to explain. That’s where I started to hear a fairly unique term, dancing with candles. At first I thought it was just a poetic expression from veteran traders, but it turned out that the meaning was deeper than just a beautiful phrase.

Dancing with candles is not just about reading candles one by one. This is the ability to blend in with price movements, understand market emotions reflected in each candle that is formed, and be able to respond to them with quick and accurate decisions. Imagine dancing with a partner. We not only move to the music, but also respond to our partner’s movements, feel the rhythm, and adjust our steps without having to think too long. Likewise, when dancing with candles, we are no longer just translating technical signals, but really diving into the dynamics of the ongoing market.

When I was still learning, I often focused on indicators. Moving average, RSI, stochastic, MACD, and various other tools became my mainstay. I was busy looking for buy and sell signals from a combination of indicators, hoping for a definite formula that could give me quick profits. But over time I realized that not all market conditions can be explained by indicators. Sometimes indicators even give conflicting signals, and that’s when I started learning to read price action and candle patterns.

At that stage, I started to train myself to read one candle, then two candles, and so on. I learned to see the long tail at the top as potential selling pressure, or the doji candle as a sign of market doubt. But all of that was still limited to technical knowledge. I could explain what engulfing, hammer, shooting star were, but I couldn’t feel them yet. I hadn’t danced with the candles. I just watched them from a distance.

Time went by, and I increased my flying hours. I tried scalping in various market conditions, from the relatively calm Asian session to the wildly moving London and New York sessions. I began to understand that prices do not always move for rational reasons. Sometimes there is a sudden push, a spike in volume, or a sudden reversal that cannot be explained by any indicator. It was at that point that I realized that in order to reach the dancing with candle level, I had to let go of my dependence on tools and start relying on intuition built from experience.

I remember a moment when I opened a position based only on the movement of a five-minute candle. There were no indicators, just a plain chart and volume. I saw strong buying pressure followed by a slight retracement, then a large bullish candle appeared accompanied by a surge in volume. I quickly entered a buy position and a few minutes later the price jumped. It felt like I knew what was going to happen even though there was no clear signal. That’s when I felt like I was dancing with the candle. I didn’t think too hard, but everything felt in harmony.

But to get to that stage, it turned out to take time and perseverance. I had to get used to looking at the chart every day, observing the price reaction to support and resistance, seeing how market makers sometimes provoke false breakouts to trap retail traders. I learned to understand that not all big candles mean strong momentum, and not all reversal patterns mean that the price will reverse direction. It all depends on the context and market conditions at that time.

There were times when I had to be really sensitive to volume and speed of movement. I learned to feel market pressure just from the shape and tempo of the candles that appeared. When the candle moves slowly and small, usually the market is waiting. But when the candle starts to widen and appear quickly, it is a sign of strong pressure, either from buyers or sellers. Sensitivity to small changes like this cannot be obtained from books or courses, but from experience that continues to be honed.

I also learned to control my emotions. Because in scalping, every second counts. A little wrong, you can cut loss. A few seconds late, you can lose the opportunity. But it was from that pressure that I was formed. I began to develop reflexes and instincts, like an athlete who is used to reading the opponent’s movements. It’s just that my opponent is the market.

To reach the level of dancing with candles, I began to reduce all distractions on the chart. I only use candles, important price levels, and volume. There are no colored lines. I want to really focus on pure price movements. I believe, the simpler the appearance