I personally know people within capital management with masters in finance, all of them consider technical analysis to be just "looking at drawings" and basically a total waste of time, yet whenever I email some of them my forecasts based on price performance analysis and forecasts happen to be correct they put it down to luck. I did have a laugh at one of them ages ago when his firm kept shorting AMZN into a raging bull, because financial forecasts were gloom and doom. What they were ignoring was the fact that whenever a firm is a pioneer and no real competition exists investors will keep piling on as if those stocks are Dutch tulips. And it's only when price action reaches the point/s of exhaustion those financial forecasts start kicking in, but by that time short positions would have been closed.