I would suggest that traders invest in a good understanding of what constitutes value (think DCF) in markets and realize that charts are not even required to trade/invest in equities and indexes.
But this stuff takes time, years of watching, understanding, testing, etc. In the meantime, just play momentum and accumulate net profits. Take what they give you.
2nd gap pretty much closed. Now, who would have thought that??? We also have a possible dragon Failure going on. We are still in the Failure zone, so have to watch the behaviour, but the numbers are: Height ~ 26 pts Failure at 1178 (cash) 3rd top would be: 1204ish