Elliott & Fibonacci (more)

    Posted by vicky on 25th of Mar 2009 at 09:56 am

    Yes Crap. And Pathetic the way these wave counts go back and forth adapting themselves to the graphical structure AFTER it is built.

    As for Fibo retracements it has been proved prices do not know of their existence. And you could sort of test it by yourselves.

    What happens and why these SEEM to work has to be seeked in your mind. As we believe we see shapes in the clouds or in the shadows because we are adapted to reconduct events and images to what we know, or better, to what we believe

    T. A. is great already and there is more than enough there to conduct undisputable test proof analisys.

    Somebody has commented that since all traders adopt them Fibo and Elliott work as a self fulfilling profecy. Perfectly right for other more valid isntruments, but, sorry, not for those two.

    I do not have to say who I am and for how long I've been following Matt&Steve to make what I am saying valuable or unvaluable. So use the same approach toward a 13th century mathematician from Pisa. It would be fascinating if this ancient wisdom worked, but it just does not, at least in the way it is used .

    It is a theory, let's well consider it (why not), in the back of our mind it could well be present, but that's it.

     

    I agree...I have gotten destroyed

    Posted by sfeid on 25th of Mar 2009 at 10:03 am

    I agree...I have gotten destroyed listening to elliott wave and waiting for the final 5th wave pullback... the intra-day guys really suck...saying this marks the top evry 5 points up in the spx from 785  they are back seat drivers....  steve

    guys we are in an

    Posted by matt on 25th of Mar 2009 at 10:09 am

    guys we are in an uptrend, I stated 2 weeks ago that I thought the low was in, I covered all shorts on the watch list on Mar 9th and put Longs, We state we only use EW as a roadmap, but use normal tech analysis to time our trades. EW worked well last year and defines the bear market, this is not the start of a new bull market, however we are in an uptrend.  wave B will last for several months, it has been three weeks, what have you missed??  You still have a few months of uptrend? My target on wave B is 1000 - 1100 on the SPX, but is will not go straight there. Plus did not not play any longs?

    People get so damn emotional, I'm getting tired of all this.

     

    I said, we are in an uptrend, we look to buy pullbacks, pullbacks will be shallow so shorting is only for short term, the trend is up, I've been saying this for a while.  We have Longs on the watch list.  how many shorts do you see and the 2 shorts we have are working.  Enough on this already

    As a person who tried

    Posted by macbeth on 25th of Mar 2009 at 10:24 am

    As a person who tried to do day trading by myself, and lost $40,000, I'd like to say thanks to Matt & co. I have much better direction than I ever had before. And I say to Matt, "you can't please everybody all the time" !! Carry, on, you are doing a great job ! Thanks again.

    Matt, do not be dispirited

    Posted by biketastic on 25th of Mar 2009 at 10:37 am

    Matt, do not be dispirited by the negative comments.  This is a great service; your comments are clear, informative and well balanced.  Maybe the detractors would benefit from some training in listening skills :-)

    Mike - from sunny Denmead, UK.

    yes sir  

    Posted by sfeid on 25th of Mar 2009 at 10:15 am

    yes sir

     

    Matt, I am watching the

    Posted by dallassteve on 25th of Mar 2009 at 10:15 am

    Matt, I am watching the SPX hit that 825 line you drew on the 60 minute chart.  I'm interested in your thoughts as we watch if it is taken out, or falls back.  Looked strong this morning, but too vertical.  I may sell my SDS on a small decline, or hold if the market falls back as quickly as it went up.

    Regarding emotions on the site.  As long as people keep it civil, it is nice to know we have a passion for trading.  I try to make objective trading choices, but I do smile after a nice trade.  And I learn something from the bad ones.

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