The number 1 set of traders are people that really take their whole time watching the market candles, they make judicious use of the market for their profits no matter the direction the market faces. While the number 2 sets of traders are more like holders and long term investors l, that waits for the market on any direction, (i.e price moves up, they take out profit and while price moves down, they buy). They do other things than focusing on the candles.
On any of these two forms of traders or trading, profits are being made from it. For me, I will count myself to be in the number 2 form of traders. I have a real life job and activities here in the forum, I just put a trade and secure it with stop loss and take profit. Issues I face with this, is most times the market takes me out on the stop loss before heading to my take profit, it's so frustrating at times.
I'm getting more interested with the Trailing Stop method of trading (still learning it). I have only read and watched how it is used, have not fully started using it. I'm sure it is safer for the number 2 form of traders, as we are not always in the market all day.