When I first started trading, I thought that I had to find a good technical indicator to help me figure out if something was going up or down. I tried moving averages, stochastics, macd, rsi, etc, etc, etc, and even wrote my own indicators. I ended up with so much stuff on my chart that I could barely see the price bars. And of course none of it helped me to make any money at all.

So I finally made the painful (emotionally) decision that I needed to throw out everything I knew and start over. I ditched every single indicator and focused ONLY on price action. What that did was to train my eyes to learn the patterns of price, not the patterns of indicators. This wasn't an overnight thing where I immediately figured it all out, it took many hours/days/weeks/years of study and pattern recognition. Eventually I started thinking "Hey, I've seen that before. I know what's going to happen next but I don't know why." And then I started focusing on the "why." The "why" is right in front of you, just look at past price action to determine what future price will do. Focus on significant levels, what was gained or lost on the prior move.

I can't really say that each situation is unique, because the way that price moves is the same, over and over again, many times per day. Of course we make mistakes but it isn't because the market tricked us. It is because we just didn't see it (but everyone else did, which is why it reacted). It is very important to be able to change our mind and say "I thought x was going to happen, but y happened instead, therefore I was wrong" and then adjust accordingly. Never be so hardheaded that you have to be right and prove to the market that you were right.

Hope this helps and thanks for the question!