I've come to the conclusion that Ichimoku doesn't mean diddly. In all fairness, perhaps it was never really meant to mean diddly but people hoped it had mystical powers.
This is really good stuff. And this actually fits with how I approach the markets. People like Tom Sosnoff essentially say no indicators work -- but they base that on tests of individual indicators. The art of technical analysis is putting indicators and technical methods together and then being able to interpret them within different contexts.