Setups work, sure, but if they worked that well, then you wouldn't be here. What you are here for is a strategy. A solid strategy always wins consistently over time. Know where the adds are. Minimize risk. Pull profits from the market.
What is different about strategy vs set ups?
Rather than focusing on what to do like set ups and indicators, strategy helps you choose what not to do.
This takes us back to why struggling traders get the wrong results: they have habits and behavior that doesn't work. So with strategy, it first removes the things we shouldn't be doing. This is where discipline comes in: stop doing the things you're not supposed to be doing.
But you don't know what to stop doing, and what to start doing. And this is why you need someone who knows what they are doing to show you what to stop doing. Once the bad habits are removed from the picture, the good habits can be learned.
Now that we're resisting the urge to get ourselves into situations that are damaging, we're free to take the right trades, at the right time, with the right size, and with the right amount of risk. With proper risk management comes emotional management.
Welcome to the world of professional trading where profitability is a way of life.