Other methods
Reading every bar on a plain chart: high 1 and high 2 pullback entries, always-in direction, signal bars.
Al Brooks trades from bare price charts, usually the 5-minute E-mini S&P chart, and reads each bar in context. Bar counting is his best-known tool. In a pullback during an uptrend, a high 1 (H1) is the first bar whose high goes above the previous bar's high; a high 2 (H2) is the second time that happens in the same pullback. In a downtrend's pullback, low 1 and low 2 are the mirror. The second entry is often the more reliable one, especially in weaker trends.
Other core ideas: 'always in', meaning the direction you'd have to be in if forced to hold a position at all times; signal bars (the bar that sets up a trade) and entry bars; wedges as three pushes; and the major trend reversal (MTR), which needs a break of the trend line and then a test of the extreme.
For education only, not financial advice.