It's an art as much as it is a science. I think that is what you're trying to get across. But pretty rudimentary TA has benefited me greatly in helping me to pinpoint the bottoms of these dips. Yes, there may be one more lower dip in the future, but if there isn't then I bought at the most ideal times. Same was true for the last two dips. I bought at $7540 and it immediately started climbing. Whether or not another lower low was due was still up in the air. But at least I bought in right before the market turned, thanks to the skills that haejin is helping me cultivate. Then the next lower low happened. I didn't panic or try to sell to re-buy. I rounded up some more dry powder then bought at $6250, just before the bottom came at $5900. There may still be one more lower low and whether or not I can muster up any more powder is yet to be seen. But I've put myself in an extremely advantageous position thanks to very simple TA, a skill I've managed to cultivate through watching a master at work.
I sincerely hope you open your eyes to the true value of TA. It is not what you wish it to be. It is not a crystal ball. But it does help traders to find a signal among all the noise.
Excellent comment my friend. You very much echo my own sentiment. 100% upvoted.
In the same video where @haejin first identified this a,b,c,d,e correction he made it clear he thought $6,000 or lower was possible. At the time he didn't think it was very likely but he still advised that buy ladders in that zone were reasonable. I don't remember him making any hard calls about BTC prior to that during this correction.
He seems to redraw his patterns from scratch in many videos. And since TA is best when it's done with the most current information, resistance lines can move from day to day as a pattern expands slightly beyond its initial trajectory. As the currency moves closer toward the bottom in both price and time it becomes easier to pinpoint its destination. This is why TA changes from day to day. None of the changes you mentioned should have caused you to make any bad buys or sales, even if you were acting impulsively.
When a pattern like a triangle or even a wedge completes, there is no guarantee that a price will head in one direction or another. But identifying these patterns allows us to lean on an understanding of the propensity of price movement so that we are right more often than we are wrong. What more can you really ask for?