My existing plots directly use matPlotLib I want to add candle sticks to those graphs not have the candle stick take over. In the old api at mpl_finance it worked great I just passed in the axis of my existing work. You really should support the old strategy. I will just use the deprecated version until you do.

The old API Allowed:
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(14, 10))
ax = plt.gca() # Get current axis
from mpl_finance import candlestick_ohlc
candlestick_ohlc(ax, myBarData)

And it would would just add it's drawing to the existing graph.
The new version requires creating a panda data frame converting
the datetime from string to panda index and then it created a
entirely new figure popping up in a different window. I already
had my X axis labels they way I wanted them so you should not
render them.