What in the blazes i going on?!

Gotta admit that I haven't a clue what in the blazes is going on out there anymore. Perhaps I'm just not doing this right, but... Elliot counting seems useless. Technical analysis seems useless. Fundamentals analysis seems worthless. The chart certainly looks to be entering a new a blazing bull market, but then why is it built on an ever increasing number of gaps? Some of the smartest wave counters out there are saying we are about to enter some sort of wave 3 of 3 of 3 that may extend this to ranges like 3400+. But I still question it. As obvious as it is that the market is moving up, it is also obviously choppy. It is not obviously impulsive. Overall P/C ratio seems to suggest market is overly bullish. Yet... ETF P/C ratios suggest there is a bear army ready to pounce at any moment to take this market down to who knows where! Bottom line it seems to have entered a confusing, blob like, uncountable state that is very different than the years or decades prior. Frustrating is the perfect word I think. A part of me wonders if this is what mass central bank intervention on its last straw looks like. How much of the stock market are real investors investing and how much of it is central bank and company buy back manipulation today? Will it ever end?