Do not believe in the righteous path pattern! "After all, aren’t you not winning?"

Double top, head and shoulders, trendline break
—a so-called "standard pattern" that beginners first learn when studying FX.

It appears in both books and videos, so many people start from here. However, if you keep using this standard pattern, you’ll hit walls like these.

“The win rate is decent, but funds aren’t growing easily.”
“Even though I enter according to the textbook, the width of the stop loss is always large.”
“In the end, I can’t win through.”
“I can’t seem to win, no matter what.”

Actually, this wall isn’t because your technique is lacking.
There is a built-in weakness in the pattern itself, called the standard pattern.

And there are surprisingly many people who continue trading for years without realizing that weakness.

Chapter 1: The “best effort” line of the standard pattern

To give the conclusion first:
It isn’t that all standard patterns are lies.
There are actually scenarios where they work.

However, as long as you use the standard pattern,
there are lines where the risk-reward (RR) cannot be reached..

This is because the standard pattern is a method that judges based on the outcome of “how the price moved.”
“We sell because the price broke the neckline”, “We buy because the trendline was broken”, “We enter because the high/low pattern was completed”

• Sell when the neckline is broken

• Buy when the trendline is broken

• Enter because the high/low formation is completed

All of these are methods that enter after the price movement has completed.

▲ Typical example of a standard pattern

Here, a simple question arises.

“Why, even though I enter according to the textbook, is the stop-loss width always wide?”

The answer is,
it lies among the things the standard pattern does not look at.