wait for two green candles (those with higher lows & higher highs) & go long and do the reverse for going short. of cours, no method is 100% safe.....lolz
I think traderrich says it best. Don't matter what everyone tells you, unless you try it out yourself and develop your own style, you will prob be back on the same boat.
2 monitors. 1 monitor searches and trades. 2nd watches the charts of 6-8 stocks to trade. Play with it. You'll come up with a good system.