Rob, never be scared of posting. We're here to learn and we've all got things to learn - even those that are teaching are always learning.
I used to get riled up when I saw I was being criticised but the thing is, I know that what I teach is profitable - if I wasn't making money off it, I wouldn't be on here all day trying to teach it.
Pin bars and inside bars etc ARE simplistic. And I hear people voicing the opinion that its like trading for dummies and they don't work. And all I think each day is "wow, this dummy just made another 70 ticks pretty effortlessly..."
I don't want to be clever. I just want to make money.
One must remember, that if it works for you, forget everyone else. People will always criticise.
I made a post a long while back and I'll repeat it here:
I am so tired of people telling me what does and doesn't work.
If it's not someone telling me that Fibonacci levels don't work, it’s someone telling me that candle patterns don't work, that trendlines don't work or that indicators don't work. That stop hunting will kill you. Counter trend trading will kill you. News trading will kill you. Risk taking will kill you.
That you can't make money if you only have a small amount to start, that you can't make money unless you are wired into the news, that you can't make money day trading, that you can't beat the computers that automate trading, that you can't make money if your stops are too large, that you can't make money if your stops are too small. You can't make money if you spreadbet, you can't make money if you pay commissions, you can't make money unless you sit at your pc 24 hours a day.
It is all rubbish perpetuated by people that can't make money themselves so they vent their frustration by telling everyone else that they can't make money either. At the end of the day I CAN make money and guess what? I make it doing the things I've been told "won't work".
Listen to your own experience, not other peoples. Find out what works for you and just do it. There is no such thing as CAN'T.