Who among them is going to provide their trading statements to prove what level of success they've achieved?
Without any proof of their trading success, who's to say they didn't make their money out of selling books and courses like Gann did. (according to his son)
Maybe we should be talking about which of them is the biggest pretender, rather than the most successful trader. Because if there's one thing that's common in the trading education business, it's pretenders......people who've made millions selling expensive courses, and claim to be proficient traders but refuse to provide any proof of their trading ability.
We have some of them right here in Australia.
Bunyip, I agree, but T/A alone oftens gets attacked as being an incomplete approach, I know someone respected on the Metastock forums, that reckons T/A is only good for timing, however he says you require fundamentals or quants and overall market direction to be in your favour, I don't quite agree with that persons opinion as there are a multitude of trading time frames and markets that you can trade in, I use T/A alone trading futures EOD, but on a single day basis, trade the US using B/Os, on an average trade of a few days, and trade the ASX using a multitude of weekly systems, that have few in common except the timeframe and all being based T/A based.
I subscribe to Nick Radge service, which is all based on T/A, Nick uses some methods I don't use, however he does it successfully, which interests me because there are many applications of price volume which I don't use which can be very successful.
You also have have very successful traders like Dan Zanger, and I am sure there are many, that none of us have ever heard of that all trade based on T/A, and probably never will hear of these private or even fund traders.
I think the Spruikers thread should be left to another, as there are many emotionally charged people that have been burnt by these guys, and I think this thread was more based on actual successful T/A traders.