Sykes hasn't promoted pinkies in a long time if ever. He uses pinks as an educational tool citing historical bull runs to teach his students how to know what patterns to look for. But he has been promoting Pinks to his students like you say. Just not publicly, that would be a new skill which he could easily adapt too if interested. I'm only using him as one example. There are others out there.
AFFU and MTi are always mentioning there strategic partners networking. Now where, how when they found them is unknown. But what if there was a better way to locate the strategic partners these two companies network with. Here's one suggestion that seems more proactive than Linked In.
It identifies like minded prospective partners for there clients. https://xespn.com/
Anyway the chips fall. There is no better substitute than YOUR OWN DD Including mine...good luck!