Its real purpose is to help you think through a trade before the market moves: where to enter, where to exit, and whether the risk is big or small. Whether it’s a double top, double bottom, or a flag pattern, the move is never right when the pattern first appears. The only spots truly worth taking action on are always the retested levels after a pullback, because only at those points is the stop-loss clear. So, a reliable trading plan is actually very simple: Enter after the pullback; set the stop-loss just outside the previous high or low; and aim for a risk-reward ratio of at least 2:1.