A direct question to traders.
There are various effective strategies for trading the market, and success mostly is based on your understanding of any strategy of your choice.
What has been your most effective strategy or strategy in confluence with another for trading the market?
Price action? or use of indicators? Or are you an ICT trader?
Can you also share your reason for the strategy you use now, and which other strategies you have used before.
Everything you mentioned is just add-on in trading, it's like a tool that will help you to analyze when you are trading. Just like the indicators.
For me, yes, indicators just like volume indicators, momentum indicators - while there are still a lot of things to consider like the candlestick patterns, different time intervals, etc.