If a meteorite hits earth, aliens are discovered, quantum computing breaks encryption, someone launches a nuclear bomb, etc, any of those will affect the stock market by a lot. Technical analysis can't predict a meteorite or any of those other things, therefore it cannot work.
It "might work if nothing significant happens" but that is just a weasel way of saying it doesn't work.
Now if you're saying you decided to invest in something and you're trying to get an entrypoint and you spot a moment of large deviation from the mean and you use that to influence your operational buying mechanics like how you space out your buys or time them, that I can definitely see. But online you always see these two very different things mixed together.
It "might work if nothing significant happens" but that is just a weasel way of saying it doesn't work.
Now if you're saying you decided to invest in something and you're trying to get an entrypoint and you spot a moment of large deviation from the mean and you use that to influence your operational buying mechanics like how you space out your buys or time them, that I can definitely see. But online you always see these two very different things mixed together.