One of the most insane things that people seem to take seriously is "technical analysis" of crypto or stock prices. I have never seen any predictive power behind this, its basically akin to astrology and is more like a fun hobby to help with fantasizing about future wealth. 

Social media has created an entire genre of freelance technical analysts with lots of charts and predictions that never seem to correspond much to reality. Its good fun if you look at it that way but please do not take it too seriously.

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It's not entirely fake like astrology - momentum based trading strategies did work once upon a time (c.f. turtle traders) and are still used as short term signals. 

But the vast majority of charting is just absolute nonsense.

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