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Fib ratios (retracement and expansion) are used widely by technical traders.
Some claim statistical evidence that fib ratios have no relevance to price
pivots, however I have seen fib ratios hit too many times over more than a
decade of using them to agree. Whether you believe that they have relevance
or not, there is one overriding reason to keep an eye on them ... thousands
of other traders do use them, believe in them, and place real live
enter/exit orders at or near key fib ratios.
Earl
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Swanson" <swanwoods@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: [RT] S&P Day Trading
> Don,
>
> I have a simple question about the Fibonacci series that I really
> never understood and that is the origin of .618 and .382 is any
> given number divided by the following number, for .618, and any
> number divided by the second following number, for .382. But so
> what? I never really understood what that had to do with the
> Fibonacci series and for that matter, what they have to do with
> trading. Of course, they occur at points of support and resistence
> and expansions and contractions from multiple pivots overlap at
> major turning points, but, not always, and even then not with
> anything that could be called statistically relevant. It seems to
> me that in trading, because of rapidly changing market conditions,
> there is really very little that is statistically relevant, that is,
> very few patterns that are better than random chance. Of course it
> is exciting when you pick a top or bottom, but isn't this just a form
> of trader's placebo, to borrow a term from medicine?
>
>
> jerry
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >Ron,
> >
> >One book that deals with geometric ratios other than the Fibonacci
Series.
> >Here in you will
> >discover that there is more to life than .618 and .382.
> >Square Root 2, 3, and 5 and the reciprocals and the expanding and
> >contracting of the series.
> >
> >Bryce Gilmore's first book ( Market Geometry) is a pretty apt description
of
> >the numbers and ratios that are out there that a freely
> >traded market will work to. Gilmore is the one who brought the .786
> >retracement to view for traders.
> >It is left to you to see how it all fits together. So you have a bit of
work
> >cut out if you don't have a utility to calculate it easily. In ES such
> >geometry works really good.
> >
> >His third book, Trading With an Edge, is a pretty good book about how he
> >thinks, basically he uses his expertise
> >in time and price to figure good guess as to current trend in the market,
> >but when it comes to trading it is all
> >pattern and low risk entry. His main point is to find those trades with
low
> >risk and load the boat, since they never
> >come back on you. He doesn't hold over night. Also his method is pretty
> >much pure price with no indicators, just
> >the chart.
> >
> > A good example in ES is in the gif. the scale is the current days
range
> >at about 1:30,
> >the point is that traders on the second rally at 1:30 sold at 1163.50
limit.
> >The buy stop is one tick above 1164.00 or
> >1164.25. So you only risk 3/4 of a point to figure if you are right or
you
> >are wrong. This is a low risk entry and
> >is a discretionary kind of thing, as far as I know. This is one that
will
> >come back on you, but the internals were
> >pretty grim so probably not. The biggest thing is to be around
successful
> >traders who are making money in the market
> >that you want to trade! It will be really inspiring, and as you watch
them
> >work the market, you begin to see that it can be done.
> >
> >Don Thompson
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Jim Johnson" <jejohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: "Ron Cernokus" <roncer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Cc: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 7:17 PM
> >Subject: Re[2]: [RT] S&P Day Trading
> >
> >
> >> Hello Ron,
> >>
> >> couple of ideas for you--
> >>
> >> I trade intraday SP's and have found I've learned most about patterns
> >> from:
> >>
> >> Teresa Lo of www.trendvue.com. her chat room is OK for a while. her
> >> Trader's Manual is very well written, clear, stripped of jargon and
> >> fluff. good stuff on simple patterns and how she trades them.
> >>
> >> Linda Raschke course (expensive) is very good for that. the
> >> StreetSmarts book is only fair for that purpose.
> >>
> >> Joe Ross's book Trading as a Business has some good stuff but is very
> >> overpriced i think. his setup patterns are probably better explained
> >> and used by T Lo above.
> >>
> >> Nisson or Morris for candlestick formations. a few basic ones are all
> >> lyou need.
> >>
> >> Ultimate Trading Guide by Hill, Pruitt and Hill is very good for
> >> patterns in the first half of the book especially.
> >>
> >> Although not geared to patterns only, Trader Vic by Vick Sperandeo has
> > > some good stuff.
> >>
> >> I've just begun Alan Farley's Mater Swing Trader but it promises to be
> >> very helpful.
> >>
> >> The one thing I've noticed is that after you strip away all the cute
> >> names etc, many of these chart patterns are old as the markets. Many
> >> of these current authors are repeating, with the help of easy-to-make
> >> charts the same stuff old timers like Schabacker, Sklarew, Wyckoff,
> >> Kerr, Dunnigan, Dow described earl in the 20th century. Candlesticks
> >> are even older.
> >>
> >> If I could buy only one, it would be Teresa Lo's manual.
> > >
> >> --
> >> Best regards,
> >> Jim Johnson mailto:jejohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>
> >> Wednesday, March 20, 2002, 6:47:16 PM, you wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> RC> Don,
> >>
> >> RC> I also trade in the discretionary style you mentioned here.
However I
> >> RC> feel the need for better short term pattern recognition skills.
Is
> >> RC> there any text that you or other discretionary traders might like
to
> >> RC> recommend for short term pattern recognition. Comments
appreciated.
> >>
> >> RC> Ron
> >>
> >>
> >> RC> Don Thompson wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> John,
> >> >> Your first catostrophic stop loss is $3000 or 12 S&P Points?
Whew..
> >that
> >> >> takes alot of balls to trade that level of
> >> >> a stop. My inclination is to get it down to two points or so.. no
more
> >than
> >> >> that. I can see you might have to make
> >> >> a system do this kind of stop loss if you aren't looking at the
actual
> >> >> prices during the day trading it. The
> >> >> day traders I know who are successful don't have more than a 2
point
> >stop
> >> >> loss and when in doubt they get out
> >> >> at 1 or .50 at best. But they are purely discretionary traders that
> >work off
> >> >> of price and pattern.
> >> >>
> >> >> Don Thompson
> >> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> >> From: "profitok" <profitok@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> >> To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> >> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 1:52 PM
> >> >> Subject: Re: [RT] S&P Day Trading
> >> >>
> >> >> > hello john
> >> >> > I can not see how you can make money if your profit objective is
> >SMALLER
> >> >> > than your stop loss
> >> >> > nice day
> >> >> > Ben
> >> >> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> >> > From: "John Cappello" <jvc689@xxxxxxx>
> >> >> > To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> >> > Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 6:44 AM
> >> >> > Subject: [RT] S&P Day Trading
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > My system has not performed at max this year so far and I am
doing
> >> >> > > adjustments to current market conditions mainly related to
> >psychology
> >> >> > > of the market and ranges. I am still trading it at a low
contract
> >> >> > > levels 5% of asset allocation. After debugged will step up.
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > Adjustments being made.........entry and exits not limited to
Level
> >2
> >> >> > > and 3 Supports and Resistance.
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > Widen trading ranges..............expected today [1179 to 1183]
> >sell
> >> >> > > points [1165 to 1169] buy points. No trade if total range
beyond
> >> >> > > 1183 to 1165 at open.
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > My personal stops are $3000 ; min profit target $2000 ;
trailing
> >stop
> >> >> > > once $1500 profit reached is $750 ; MOC or OCO if tweaked.
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > John
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > >
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