W.D. Gann chart inside your head. You will spot the significant smallness of a spear point penetrating as opposed to the smallness of inconsequential items. All require good sense of detail, whether already possessed or cultivated for the purpose. None are perfect, but all can help sift and assemble the cinched pack of material information from the vastness of total information. Get a handle on the convolutions of time, also on the patterns of the past.
Time is a hack writer of formula stories, markedly more prone to repetition than to originality.
However, this does not make it incapable of surprises. You will have a fair grasp on the convolutions of time if you regard it as often predictable but not always. A capable trader formulates a sound battle plan calculating what the enemy is likely to do, but to it attaches a worst case scenario. Psychologically, much depends on people's visions or images of the past, which vary tremendously not just in finance and investments. We've fallen in love with a pair of murderers.