Intuition and experience is my trading method.
Any technical indicator trading strategy is only going to work until it doesn't. Every pattern holds until it doesn't hold, and you never know if the current time is when it will hold or when it will break. I find using intuition and experience a far better strategy.
This relies on being experienced with the crypto market in general, and being fairly experienced with the cryptos you are trading, though I do at times trade cryptos I have no experience with based solely on general crypto experience and studying the recent charts for that crypto.
Any trading strategy is guesswork, but I'd rather go with the intuition and experience I've built up over years of being in crypto rather than trying to rely on some technical indicator strategy.
I think both are not trading methods but both can be needed in trading. Intuition is same with instincts. We need it to help us decide in an unpredictable market. When you have experience, you will came across those methods listed by the OP and the more you gain an experience the more can try and access different trading methods, tools and others which can aid you in your trading journey.
There is no guaranteed pattern in here so it's always better to have different plans or strategies to keep up with the pace. Trading is about guessing but it's always better to guess in an educated matter. If you do not then you are more of a gambler already and not a trader anymore.
Yeah I guess what I was saying is I don't use a specific strategy. I just use my intuition which has been built up over numerous years of being in crypto and trading for a lot of that. I trust my instinct that has been educated with years of experience over some technical trading strategy.
It's not about gambling versus trading. It's all trading. Nobody here is gambling. Gambling is something very different. But if you just follow some technical trading indicator and don't base your trades off your own instinct and experience you're just blindly following a rule even though as you say there is no guaranteed pattern, meaning rules don't apply.
The one thing I've noticed over the years from all the technical indicators and watching people draw lines on charts and everything is that in the end its always "it'll either do this...or it won't". Haha. Which isn't any better than just guessing. I can see trading strategies being useful for the inexperienced though, because it might at least keep the inexperienced trader from just randomly buying without any reason at all.
In the end all that matters is if the trading strategy is successful. At this point I tend to be very successful at trading based on instinct, whereas a few years ago I was still not very successful. I doubt I could be more successful at trading if I used any defined technical strategy because that wouldn't allow me to use my experience to trade well and instead I'd just be blindly following technical charts.