Quote from atozcom:
I have heard the following from different instructors from different TA seminars about chart patterns:
1) The chart pattern is not going to work if you are the only one that see the chart pattern.
2) The chart pattern is not going to work if everybody else see the chart pattern.
3) The chart pattern is not going to work if nobody else act on the chart pattern.
4) The chart pattern is not going to work if everybody else act on the chart pattern.
5) The chart pattern is not going to work if you have to clinch you eye to see the pattern, its not there!
6) Change the time frame and you will see different chart pattern.
7) Your reverse pattern may be somebody Else's continuation pattern.
8) chart patterns work 100% looking backwards.
9) Automatic chart patterns recognition AND trading software would have been invented if chart patterns works any better than coin toss. Coin toss of course is 50% head and 50% tail.
10) Chart patterns give you absolutely no edge because chart patterns are available to everybody else.
BTW, I see double bottom (mid June, mid July), up side down head and shoulder (mid May shoulder, early June head, mid July shoulder), and flag (July, August, September channeling up).