you were both right. Yet, candlesticks are tough thing to read if you were just a beginner. One way to be atleast a good thing to begin with is to study the market itself, your chosen market to trade, in whatever the currency you want. Read news and predictions, have patience to study how your chosen market works, together with some brief history. Then watch youtube for other analyzing tips.
Most easier one for me is the bollinger bands and RSI. Combining these both with the volume makes it easier for me to identify the trend and also the understand the patterns. You could initially learn these strategies to get yourself started with the trading patterns and charts. It would make you gain more interest and you would come to know about a lot new strategies and patterns after this. Try to analyze the patterns on tradingview for better and convenient way.