How to plot candlestick skipping empty dates using matplotlib?

I'm still a newbie to matplotlib. Currently, I have below dataset for plotting:

Date Open High Low Close Trade_Date 2018-01-02 736696.0 42.45 42.45 41.45 41.45 2018-01-03 736697.0 41.60 41.70 40.70 40.95 2018-01-04 736698.0 40.90 41.05 40.20 40.25 2018-01-05 736699.0 40.35 41.60 40.35 41.50 2018-01-08 736702.0 40.20 40.20 37.95 38.00 2018-01-09 736703.0 37.15 39.00 37.15 38.00 2018-01-10 736704.0 38.70 38.70 37.15 37.25 2018-01-11 736705.0 37.50 37.50 36.55 36.70 2018-01-12 736706.0 37.00 37.40 36.90 37.20 2018-01-15 736709.0 37.50 37.70 37.15 37.70 2018-01-16 736710.0 37.80 38.25 37.45 37.95 2018-01-17 736711.0 38.00 38.05 37.65 37.75 2018-01-18 736712.0 38.00 38.20 37.70 37.75 2018-01-19 736713.0 36.70 37.10 35.30 36.45 2018-01-22 736716.0 36.25 36.25 35.50 36.10 2018-01-23 736717.0 36.20 36.30 35.65 36.00 2018-01-24 736718.0 35.80 36.00 35.60 36.00 2018-01-25 736719.0 36.10 36.10 35.45 35.45 2018-01-26 736720.0 35.50 35.75 35.00 35.00 2018-01-29 736723.0 34.80 35.00 33.65 33.70 2018-01-30 736724.0 33.70 34.45 33.65 33.90

I've converted the date value to number using mdates.date2num

After that, I've tried to plot candlestick graph with codes below:

    f1, ax = plt.subplots(figsize= (10,5))

   candlestick_ohlc(ax, ohlc.values, width=.6, colorup='red', colordown='green')
    ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(mdates.DateFormatter('%Y-%m-%d'))
    plt.show()

However, I'm still getting the graph with gaps. I've tried the possible solution from How do I plot only weekdays using Python's matplotlib candlestick?

However, I was not able to solve my problem with the solution above.

Can anyone kindly help me with this issue?

Thanks!