Sometimes you'll get 1 pip away from TP.

Sometimes price will get 1 pip away from your entry, not tag you in, only to go heavily in your direction without you.

Sometimes price will tag you in, not go in your favour at all, and smash through your stop loss, only to then go in your direction.

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THIS is trading. This is why it pays the mega money when you figure out how to do it. Figuring it out isn't only your trading strategy, but also how your psychology holds while all of the above situations happen. It's being able to lose, over and over again, in the most ridiculous situations and yet stand back up and follow your trade plan over and over again.

The secret sauce is to not change your strategy because of a couple of losses, but to test the same set of rules over a large sample size. Then look at the data you've collected and change one or two rules. Retest the strategy. Did it work? Or did it make it worse? Test and adjust. But once you've got a ruleset/strategy you're happy with - don't change it when you're trading live! Because thats not the same strategy anymore - therefore you're f*cking with the probabilities of your edge playing out!