Fine-tuning trades with Fibonacci retracements

Tramline trading is a useful way to identify entry and exit points to a trade. But it is not a precise science. To really home in on targets, you need to employ Fibonacci theory. John C Burford explains how with an example from the Dow's recent rally.

Yesterday, I pointed to a strong upside target at the underside of my tramline. In afternoon trading, this target was hit and then the market backed off towards the close.

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John is is a British-born lapsed PhD physicist, who previously worked for Nasa on the Mars exploration team. He is a former commodity trading advisor with the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission, and worked in a boutique futures house in California in the 1980s.

 

He was a partner in one of the first futures newsletter advisory services, based in Washington DC, specialising in pork bellies and currencies. John is primarily a chart-reading trader, having cut his trading teeth in the days before PCs.

 

As well as his work in the financial world, he has launched, run and sold several 'real' businesses producing 'real' products.