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Elliott wave theory is great for giving you an idea of where the market is heading, says John C Burford. That's invaluable for swing traders.

One of the wonderful benefits of using Elliott wave theory(EWT) in your chart analysis is that it gives you a likely roadmap for the future. I appreciate that EWT strikes fear into the heart of many, but it needn't do. Like anything worthwhile in life, proficiency requires practice.

Your EW count is always based on currently available evidence, which is always incomplete. I apply my Elliott wave (EW) labels which seem to be the most fitting at the time. But there are usually other competing interpretations possible. Only with the passage of time can a winning EW count emerge but by then, it is too late to profit. You have to get in early before the pattern is obvious to all and sundry.

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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.