DislikedActually, what I call patterns are simply the configuration of CS, TS, KS, KS-4TF and Kumo.
That is how you should see the lines (like agroup) to enter.
I think the word "pattern" is not used well, it is rather the verification of the configuration of the lines.
As you say, the deal is to keep everything very simple, and always with the trend.
Now, I only trade with H4 trend and sometimes against the 1 Day trend.
How looks my system? (Remeber I use Ichimoku [9,17,26])
Every hour I look for "my configuration", I mean how looks...Ignored
About the ema bands, see them as floating S/R lines and use RMI divergences for entry but this is completely apart from ichi.
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