QPM Chart, page-1955

A market is made up of irrational actors (people), it is why trying to find a trend or pattern is whacky. In the end you just follow the herd.

Investing or trading is trying to find the advantage against the herd.

For me, I follow the "trends" by just having an index fund ETF. I dont have to waste hours and hours looking at a stock like QPM for an advantage. Moreover, if you are trading with charts, the amount of effort it takes is a waste vs just going long.

The question for a TA person would be for each trade, on average, how many hours are you spending researching? And conversely, what is your average return (minus costs)? You need to bench mark this against if you just had gone long.

Time has a value to it. The amount of research I did with QPM was at the beginning of my investment. I just go long on my assumptions and have a sell point in mind based on my needs. I balance out my individual stocks by having a simple index ETF, to bench mark my returns.