I will be completely candid about this. It is a very hard concept to get the human mind to bind to, and absolutely there are many many people who wholeheartedly disagree with pure Technical Analysis.
As humans, we NEED to attach meaning to everything to make sense of the environment around us, and we NEED to have a cause and effect, if for nothing other than to keep us sane in many cases.
Ohhh man....this could get pretty long and deep....let's start here...this is an essay that Haejin, the author of this blog, wrote a while back that explains much of what I would be getting at here: https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@haejin/essay-is-technical-analysis-a-quantum-event
I personally would love to discuss it with you, but I am about to leave work at this moment. Do you have Telegram? This is more of a conversation than just a statement. Check your wallet.
Are you on Discord?