If you’re losing money staring at price charts… it might be because the real edge isn’t on the chart. Most alpha doesn’t come from “seeing patterns better.” It comes from data you don’t have. While retail is zooming in on candles, funds are paying for signals upstream: credit card spend data (to estimate revenue before earnings), satellite imagery (foot traffic, inventories, oil tankers), exchange flow positioning data (especially in crypto), and all kinds of proprietary feeds that never show up