You can draw pretty triangles and lines. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. In the end percentages are your friend and identifying long term trends. I made some extremely good calls based on TA, and I made some bad ones.
The key with TA is to
react to the market, instead of trying to predict it. That's the biggest mistake people make. They draw incomplete triangles, harmonic patterns, EW counts because they expect them to play out, when really they are just exercising their own biases. When you see breakouts from obvious patterns or S/R, that's the time to act.
I haven't been trading this BTCUSD chop at all.
But pretty much nothing beats the "stress free" hodl philosophy.
I'm a big fan of hodling but watching your portfolio dip 50% over 6 months isn't exactly stress free.