Quote from fearless9:
Dont misunderstand me AT, if fibs work for you that is great.
However, I can see how they might be derived and I prefer to follow those points.
In fact I use no derivatives.
Quote from amytrade:
I'm just teasing with the anti fibs people on here.
I'm a firm believer in everybody using what WORKS for them. I know people who make money with stochastics and macd and moving averages. While I don't use them other than moving averages on daily chart (20, 50 and 200 day simple) I'm not about to bash people making good money doing what they love in a way that makes sense to them.
In the end no matter how a person trades, if they make money its PROBABLY due to sound money management rules, ie small losses and bigger wins.
Simple stuff! Fibs aren't magical and I'll be the first to say they don't work more than 60% of the time for me but given some of the trend tools I also combine with them and often looking for double tops/bottoms at these levels too the win % goes up from there.
Quote from Martinghoul:
However, whatever it is that she's doing seems to work for Amy
Quote from fearless9:
gm people.
In the matter of the people v fibs.
Why do they work...
And yet YOU are still reading and posting your garbage. That seals the deal, if it looks like an idiot, sounds like an idiot, SMELLS like an idiot, YOU must be an idiot!Quote from TraderZones:
There is nothing of value here.
Quote from TraderZones:
The point is, they DON'T work. I posted a serious institutional study a couple pages back that strongly proves they are no more useful than any other level.
Firstly, like yourself I don't see any evidence, but neither do I require any. Why would I?Quote from TraderZones:
It works for Amy? Where is the evidence for this? She claimed in another thread that she makes "a ton of money" from this stuff. I asked for statements to prove this claim and she went quiet.
The truth is more likely that she is a mathematical maladroit and a papertrading pauper. I have the feeling that "Trader Girl" was an attempt on her part to start a journal, gain some followers, and then start an advisory business. The problem is, she is using proven quackery and has little clue what "works."
She throws up levels, and claims some "work." What is "works"?? Something that bounces exactly off a Fib level? Something that gets near it on either side?
There is nothing of value here.
Incorrect and I completely disagree with a whole number of points.Quote from TraderZones:
The point is, they DON'T work. I posted a serious institutional study a couple pages back that strongly proves they are no more useful than any other level.
Speculating on the reasons they do is a cosmic waste of time. Beliefs and opinions mean nothing. Evidence and proof mean everything.
An edge is quantifiable. That there is a longterm uplift in the stock market during the last couple days of a month and first few days of the next month is beyond doubt - it has been working for a good century. It doesn't always work, but year in and year out, it remains.
Fib levels have been shot down multiple times by very smart peiople who subject it to rigorous tests. The fact that people still believe in it is no more interesting than people convinced that a giant dinosaur-era marine reptile exists in Loch Ness, even though the Loch is only some 10,000 years old and marine reptiles disappeared 65 million years ago.