Practicality of Fibonacci Retracements

Discussion in 'Technical Analysis' started by Raul641, Mar 13, 2007.

Fibonacci retracements...

  1. Excellent! One of my favorite tools.

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  2. They're useful sometimes.

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  3. Tea Leaves!

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  4. What's a Fibonacci retracement?

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  1. Precisely. I find it amazing how few grasp that simple concept.

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    #101     Jul 3, 2007
  2. Fib numbers are pseudoscience at best in regard to trading the markets. However, because many people do look at them, they can provide a minor edge IF used in conjunction with market internals and not at the levels you stated. Knowing which levels are going to hold and which are not is the key to their working, not the line itself. And being those same levels can be found using other methods, it's not the fibonacci numbers that are "magical." It's your belief that they work, not that they actually do.

    That being said, fib numbers are nothing more than a conjecture of predicting what you wish/hope/think is going to happen next. And trying to predict what the market might do next is a losing proposition. As a retail trader, following price as it occurs in real time and acting accordingly rather than some prophecy the market will turn at a predetermined point based on voodoo is the key to being successful. IOW, waiting on the tracks to jump on the next train based on past arrivals could prove to be fatal; best to wait on the sidewalk and then hop on the caboose as it passes.

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    #102     Jul 3, 2007
  3. I prefer tarot, personally.
     
    #103     Jul 3, 2007
  4. what ! refuted ???

    "Thus, either Batchelor and Ramyar's null distribution constructed from block bootstrap is unreliable,
    or Fibonacci ratios do occur more often in the stock market than would be expected in a random environment." — sounds like a win-win to me

    'Another Look at Fibonacci Statistics' Deepak Goel
    http://www.socionomics.net/pdf/Fibo_Statistics.pdf


    attached pdf is Prechter's visual of the results of data manipulation
     
    #104     Jul 4, 2007
  5. Candara

    Candara Guest

    Fibonacci rules all the time.
     
    #105     Jul 7, 2007
  6. TOM134

    TOM134

    Raul641,

    Let the Market tell you when to enter a trade.

    Be patient!

    Watch.

    I hope this helps.

    Tom
     
    #106     Jul 7, 2007