Confirmation bias. You see something and go and look for where it works. BUT what you should be doing is spending 80% of the time looking for when it does NOT work. When you cannot find it not working after using a STRICT rule based description, then it has just passed filter 1 of 10. Knowing when it does not work is more valuable than knowing when it does work.
100% agree. Majority lose, majority look for confirmation not rejection. Yet they don't understand why lose so often. Pattern failures are some of the best trades.
Noobs usually set up traps for themselves. Going back to the OPs assertion, 3 strikeouts usually apply to TA as well. Anything more than 3 touches should be seen with suspicion.
Personal responsibility is an anachronistic idea in woke America. It is easy to blame HFT traders or market makers or PFOF .Think male millennials still living in their parents' basement and girl friends picking up the dinner tab.
or much worse is Cuomo (D) former governor of NY not owning up for the deaths of hundreds if not thousands of elderly people from the virus in nursing homes. There is no comparison between a POS and a murderer.