To catch onto obvious patterns you have to be not really fast but nano-microseconds fast, otherwise in a blink of an eye the price is already too high to jump in.
A) capture the entire available upside
B) estimate how large that opportunity might be, and not attempt to over-stoke it.
C) by capturing the entire opportunity, prevent the signal from being visible to the broader market. The only sign that a need is being met could be trade-volume rather than price movement.
I totally agree on all three points and I even think that a certain amount of capital, opportunity related (not fees etc.), is not even needed to mine a pattern. Because according to the ones statistics and research the actually existing pattern should appear anyway.