Candle Stick graph with Timetable data showing weekend gaps - matlab

Question

First of all, I think the answers I've found are outdated:
Excluding weekend gaps from financial timeseries plots
Exclude Date Gaps in Time Series Plot in Matlab
Datetick take into account NaN in plot
My problem:
I've created a candlestick graph based on a Timetable table with these dates (the format is dd/mm/yyyy):
'25/01/2019'
'24/01/2019'
'23/01/2019'
'22/01/2019'
'21/01/2019'
'18/01/2019'
'17/01/2019'
'16/01/2019'
'15/01/2019'
'14/01/2019'
'11/01/2019'
'10/01/2019'
'09/01/2019'
'08/01/2019'
'07/01/2019'
'04/01/2019'
'03/01/2019'
'02/01/2019'
'28/12/2018'
'27/12/2018'
'26/12/2018'
'21/12/2018'
'20/12/2018'
'19/12/2018'
'18/12/2018'
And this code:
candle(this.values);
This gives me this plot:
As you can see, there are gaps corresponding to the non-business days.
Given the answers that I've found to the same problem what I did was:
Created two arrays one with the dates and the other with dates strings:
this.dates = table2timetable(ticker(1:5:25,:));
%sort them out because were generated in reverse order
this.dates = timetable2table(sortrows(this.dates(:,1)));
this.dates = this.aux(:,1);
this.lbl = datestr(this.aux{:,1},'dd/mm/yyyy');
Obtain the gca object to set the X-axis properties:
this.ax = gca;
this.ax.XTick = this.dates{:,1};
this.ax.XTickMode = 'manual';
this.ax.XTickLabel = this.lbl;
And the result is this:
So the properties are being set correctly but the gaps remain.
Finally I've tried to set the Timetable property VariableContinuity and called the retime function to generate the missing dates entries with NaN data to see if that helped but with the same results:
this.values.Properties.VariableContinuity = {'event','event','event','event','event','event','event','event'};
this.values = retime(this.values,'daily');
What else could I do to hide the gaps?

Answer 1

I believe that once plotted, you cannot remove the gaps. You have to remove the gaps before plotting. In your timetable, create a linear date array (no gaps) and use this for the timetable, then plot. Then, the gaps will not be there but the dates will be wrong. To put the right date, use the following code (similar to your code).
this.ax.XTickMode = 'manual';
this.ax.XTickLabel = YOUR_CORRECT_DATE_CELL_ARRAY