We've got some longer posts here this weekend. I will blame that for getting me going. Ha ha
Going back decades, I studied Economics. From that time I ''discovered'' fundamental analysis (P/E, Debt/Equity, ROE, Income per Share, Book Value, etc.), which I still use for value investing. The Internet got going, and I gravitated to technical analysis. First indicator that got my attention and showed me something --> Slow Sto, about 25 years ago. Now I look briefly at economic and finance news, but mostly get my fix for that on here, as in what is current. OK I read some articles here and there. But I am about 95% technical now. It's all in the charts.
IMO all technical analysis methods have merit. Do we need to use them all? No. I don't use Elliott Wave, nor Gann, nor Market Profile, nor Volume Profile. Indicators I respect and have used but no longer use extensively include ADX, CCI, Chaikin, OBV, RSI, W%R and Heikin-Ashi charts. All good but it can get redundant. Ones I still use, not all together, are Bollinger Bands, Volume by Price, EMAs, SAR, Pivots (and different levels of support and resistance, including Fibonacci and trendlines), MACD, Slope, Slow Sto, TSI, and of course Volume. I like CandleSticks, and the Elder Impulse System. I like Renko and 3 Line Break charts. That is plenty.
For setups I use variations of the basics: pullbacks, breakouts, fades, turns and gaps. I scalp ES, NQ and YM. I day trade stocks, including the Dow 30. I swing trade stocks, ETFs and sometimes forex.
The only options I trade are uncovered puts, selling as a value play for stocks I am interested in buying.
I still like big, slow clunky PnF for the bigger picture, and it can be very useful all the way down to 1 minute charts and below (20 ticks, 10 ticks). It is a slow moving freighter, but with huge momentum.
All of this leading to ... SPY daily, Point and Figure.
By the way, crash, or big correction, coming? Of course. And we will see it in the charts, early.
Charts posted are not recommendations. They are just a sharing of information.