First, you have to define real or fraud. This is what I'm talking about when I'm talking about vendoring transparency. Just knowing if he makes money is not enough enough to know if the methods are worthwhile enough to bother learning, what if he makes 4% per year from his trading on CCI? Would you still want to learn it? If he charges then you need to ask for a track record.
As for CCI, I used to be into a lot of indicators. I do not use many/any indicators now except for my trading systems.
Out of all the indicators, I used I did at one point like CCI better then most other indicators. Of note, I never received any formal trading in indicators, and that is very important point.
So, what about CCI? CCI if traded mechanically would probably be break even which is true for most other indicators. However, a part of the path to success is the development of market filters or lenses for viewing the market action and learning to view market through CCI for a beginner could be useful.
Of note, I don't think CCI is the best market filter: so I wouldn't bother with it where I'm at now. But, if you are just developing your market filter then it might be one way for you to start to view the market.
To be clear, CCI is just a market filter. It is one way to view the market. Most professionals tend to gravitate to viewing the market without indicators and use primarily price action filters.
But as far as public domain indicators go, stochastics and CCI were the ones I could make the most sense of. But again these are just market filters. They likely aren't enough to get you to trading at a professional level. That requires much more.
Quote from marxdhr:
I have been reading numerous posts on the web indicating that trading with Woodies CCI system is a fraud and that the moderators in the rooms on his site acknowledge that they don't really make money with his methods. Many have said that Woodie himself does not make any money with it.
Does anyone know if the method works or whether it is a fraud? Do you know anyone who actually makes money with it?