Ah, how the market resembles life! An eternal stage where all movements, no matter how grandiose they may seem, depend on an attentive audience to become true. And there it is, the "Power Candle", our protagonist today, appearing imposingly on the chart as if to say: "Here I am, the synthesis of everything the market has decided at this moment."
But who is he, anyway? Just an illusion, perhaps. A momentary reflection of desires that we don't always know where they come from or where they are going. His robust body, without wicks to pull him towards lateral uncertainties, seems to scream: "The truth is this, there is no other!" However, if there is one thing I have learned to observe; and the market, like life, teaches us by force; is that the truth never comes alone. It always requires a witness, someone who legitimizes it. In the market, this someone goes by the name "Volume".
Without Volume, the Power Candle is an actor without an audience. An empty grandiloquence, a speech in an empty theater. What is the value of the appearance of power if no one is there to confirm it? I think about how many times in life we follow false heroes, seduced by the spectacle, without realizing that the echo of their words was nothing more than disguised silence. And so the market deceives: a Power Candle without Volume is just that: a disguise.
On the other hand, when Volume appears, filling the chart with its noisy presence, the scenario changes. Now, the Power Candle is something more: it is the reflection of the crowd, the sum of the wills that, at that moment, decided to believe together. The breaking of a resistance? Yes, but only if Volume applauds. Because, without this chorus, the break is as fragile as a dream that falls apart upon waking.
And, oh, the breakups... Aren't they, deep down, what we all seek? The moment when we break through the resistance of an ordinary day, of a life that drags on, to something that takes us further? But be careful: not all breakups are real. There are candles that, like empty promises, seem to break through the limits, but soon recede, because they lack that which is essential: the support of those who believe.
The market, like life, is a game of appearances and confirmations. And perhaps that is why it fascinates us so much: because in it, we see reflected our own illusions, our own desires to be more, to go further. The Power Candle, then, is not just a chart. It is the perfect metaphor for the human being: grand in its appearance, but always dependent on something greater; on a Volume that sustains it.
And so we go on, reading charts like someone reading the days, trying to find signs that we are on the right path. The Strength Candle inspires us, but the Volume reminds us that not all inspiration is real. And, in the end, isn't that what life is? An eternal effort to separate what seems from what is, what is shown from what remains. Oh, how all this tires me, but at the same time, how it delights me!
