### Comment:
Except for when it doesn't unless you mean several years later.

### REPLY:
Trading is all about probability.  The ONLY time your bull trap scenario plays out is when you buy at a major market top. There have only been 2 such tops in the past 23 years. 4 of those years were bear markets.  So out of 19 bull market years there are only maybe 4 monthly candles that constituted a 'big drawn out bull trap'.  That's less than 2%.  98% of the time the bull market gets back to recent highs within a few months.

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