Not every triangle on a chart deserves capital. In the Weekend Pattern Recognition Workshop we spend as much time discarding patterns as we do celebrating them.
Skip a formation when the preceding trend is unclear — classical continuation patterns assume a directional move worth measuring. Skip when volume dried up long before the apex, leaving a coiled spring with no fuel. Skip when the pattern sits against a major round-number level that has rejected price twice already on the weekly chart; the higher-timeframe story usually wins.
Also skip when you cannot state a measured-move target and an invalidation in the same breath. If the only attraction is that the shape “looks like the textbook,” you are collecting shapes, not reading markets.
The weekend atlas we hand out includes failure case studies from recent ASX sessions. Students annotate those failures first, then return to cleaner examples. That order builds scepticism before confidence — a better sequence for adults who already trade with real money.