When a price pattern doesn't behave the way you expect, the best trade could be in the opposite direction.
Patterns appear at the end of thrusting price movements.
They are characterized by constricted swings between key support and resistance levels. Pattern development completes when a new trend leg breaks through this wall into directional price change. This new thrust may be in the same or opposite direction as the previous one. A pattern between adjacent price moves in a single direction continues that trend. Alternatively, when a breakout turns and retraces the last trend leg, the intervening pattern reverses the prior move.