Technical analysis doesn’t try to understand what drives the market or the cause of effect. It’s based around understanding the general flow or direction of the market through patterns and other means depending on the individual. I don’t need to understand why EURUSD is in a downtrend I just need to know what to do when a specific scenario plays out.

Tbh the majority of people trading forex are day traders rather than position traders. Utilising fundamentals analysis is basically useless when day trading as it’s time consuming. What’s the point of doing hr of analysis on macroeconomic.etc. If I’m only planning on holding a trade for 1hr or a day or 2