It is better than gambling, because if you follow a good trading system through, your odds of long term profits should be higher than 50%.
The reason you don't notice some patterns is because you may want to believe price will go one way and you subconsciously discard any information that tells you otherwise. After the damage is done, the "haze curtain" falls, reality checks in, and you start seing clearly again, but then it's too late already.
Another reason is that you actually couldn't know exactly where the price was going! The best you can do is to make a guess that has high chances of materializing, but don't beat yourself if your guess ends up being wrong, remember, you'll never be right all the time.
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