Harmonious patterns

One of the most valuable filters I use for qualifying trade is anticipating the candle stick pattern for its beauty.

This method eradicates looking for price and even limits how "how price moved" into a zone.

This method instead looks for beauty in the market.

It creates a pattern to match in one's mind and makes one pass on "ugly trades."

While this seems to be a discretionary methodology, it isn't.

It takes some practice, and you want to start on the daily time frame when doing your daily call.

Anticipate an additional finished daily candle at the right side in your mind. Play around with all possible variants and imagine how the added candle would look alongside the whole picture.

Rate that anticipated picture. You will find that many candles will not fit or are at least rarely seen patterns and are very unlikely.

Backtest your instrument, find typical behavior patterns, and rate a match to one of those highly likely patterns high.

Once you are proficient, do the same exercise by adding two candles to your mind. You will find that the first candle is often needed as a "pause" candle before a more harmonious pattern embarks. You have now integrated time as a component for low-risk entry timing versus price-only patterns.

Befriend the highest probability "beauty" patterns and act on them when they come to fruition.

Over time this process becomes a new skill set, and you can apply it to lower time frames and weed out low grade=high risk trades.