No exotica for this country lad. No astrology, no chaos theory, no fractals, no neural networks, no Elliott Wave. I'm not saying these things don't work, only that they don't work for me. I'm also a firm believer that while many things can be of use to an analyst, nothing's more important than pure price action.
Various traders have various approaches to the market.
Some are momentum investors who like to buy breakouts at the tops of price ranges. Too many breakouts prove false, and if a stock fails at the top of its range after an extended run up, it's got a lot farther to fall than a stock that's already had a correction. What it boils down to is that I'd rather buy low than buy high. After experimenting with dozens of technical tools and indicators over the years, I've come to settle on a handful that seem to work best for me. Regression Channels, sometimes called Least Squares.