Dislikedlol nice pic!
you know... just few days ago someone asked me: " do you trade with the trend or do you trade counter trend to pick reversals?"
better i don't post my answer to this question...Ignored
Soon enough we realize that there is no point in chasing the market and hence the tendency gets to counter trend trade trying to pick tops/bottoms.
I think the problem is that when trading with the trend, when market does push far enough, we never bank our profits and if counter trend trading, we enter the trade only to find that market keeps pushing further in the trend direction.
The key to profit making imo is to choose your timeframe, estimate max drawdown per trade, then be conservative when entering the trade and liberal getting out of it without emotions getting in the way.
I hardly follow any of those because of the latter.