This is where your statements become fanciful. I have met the rare trader who trades patterns that only appear several times every year got long term holds successfully. To claim you have compressed this is pure fantasy --- As everyone else would soon find the same patterns and exploit them until they don't work. Unless you are magic. Then I can't argue.
I understand that you might not want to go into details. But why do you think certain patterns or bars work? I mean, sure one can backtest them but is there any logical explanation for selecting certain patterns of bars? Thank you for sharing.
An excellent question: 1) Being impatient, not waiting. You want to be a crocodile, wait patiently forever and then when the opportunity is there, go all in for the kill 2) day trading...bizarrely enough, i am quite a good day trader! But it tires me out and is a distraction imho to the bigger moves which take place over days. Basically ended up missing some good position trades which would have spectacular. So made chicken feed day trading and missed tens of thousands on other trades. 3) Not position sizing correctly. Probably other reasons, but those come to mind immediately.