No one said there weren't runs in both types, but that there were more runs in real stock charts vs. random stock charts. Again, you are knocking down strawmen.
Regardless of how long the strategy stays in force, it is fixed for that period of time. According to your grand theory of "immediate market data obsolescence", even a week is too long for a single strategy to remain effective. You've painted yourself into a corner where only your "market drivers", whatever they are, actually work. Or so you claim.
he still needs 998 1/2 trades in order to show that price drivers method is not a luck method. he demanded 1000 trades from ta traders to verify a method, so the same rule applies to him.
If you take a data set and mathematically quantify or standardize that data in ANY way, you are using TA. What is your struggle with that, surf?
"Technical analysis is a methodology that makes buy and sell decisions using market statistics." http://www.investinganswers.com/financial-dictionary/technical-analysis/technical-analysis-1108