I am a trend trader which means the direction of the trend at a higher degree is THE most important technical factor when I take a trade. Over time this has turned me into a wave trader as that is the easiest and probably the best way to understand the structure and direction of the trend. A few years ago I developed this technical pattern caused the 'News Trap', it is a really effective and profitable trading idea.
When the trend is clearly in one direction, in this case, the trend on the GBPUSD is clearly down a piece of unexpected news can cause a pretty big move in the opposite direction, in this case it was the fact that the Bank of England MPC voted 6-3 to keep rates on hold (blue circled v on the chart), however, the market forecast was 7-2. As we know this didn't really change anything and it certainly is not enough to change the relative interest rate forecasts between the FED and the BoE, so really it was a non-event.
After the price moved higher I looked for a standard turning pattern, maybe a head and shoulders or a candlestick pattern. In this case, it was a 1-2-3 reversal pattern, effectively a lower high. This signals that the news trap is over and I have taken a short position expecting price to unwind to the level it was at before the news arrived.
I used to always be on the wrong side of these news trap events, assuming that the force of the countertrend move was significant and meant the trend had changed, I am older and wiser now, trends rarely change and the news trap technical is a great way to trade the trend.