A question for technical traders - ignore news events?

If you are a true technical trader should you ignore most news events? Interest rates, NFP, FOMC, ECB announcements being the minority.

As an example, you spot a signal on the H4 charts 2-3 hours before a major new announcement, would you take it or not? Similary would you remove a recently taken live trade before a news announcent?

Of course some will say yes and some no, however over the long term I am feeling that simply continuing with the signal or trade would be the best option.

I am a very Technical trader that use mathmatical formulaas to predict and trade the market. But i am a long term trader so when i place trades it doesnt matter what the news is. if you trades are lase than 5 days long i would pay attention to the news, if not it dont affect too much. The martket repeats patterns

If you want to avoid news then you need to drop the time frame to no higher than 30mins. That way you can trade 'around' the news. But if you're looking to trade H4 then you have no way of avoiding the news. I personally wound't take a trade right before. That's gambling.

My 2 cents: Technical > Fundamental

it depends on what time frame and what timescale you keep trade active.

If you are pure technical/short term trader(trade active max 1hour) then you should avoid news.