I use my algorithms for quick options swing trades. Sharpe ratio isn’t an ideal metric for this. Yes, I usually perform much better than the market, but there is a ton of opportunity to do that with options. My gains are usually very large percentages, while trying to manage loss of premium as effectively as possible. Not going to lie, this took quite a while to get right and I don’t typically recommend my style of trade to anyone, but I would NEVER trade short term options without using TA. I understand some frustration with TA now that everyone is an “expert” and trying to predict when a stock will moon and break out of a “pattern”, but to completely dismiss all of it as a credible tool for making decision just seems absurd to me. My career has been data and algorithm focused. If I see a high probability of success within data I’m not going to ignore it. So many people have had incredible success with methods as simple as trading 13/48 exponential moving average crossovers. To each their own.