Using Fibonacci targets to short the euro and the Dow

Following on from his look at the euro and the Dow Jones markets, John C Burford spots an opportunity to make a short trade as the two diverge.

Market developments came thick and fast on Wednesday afternoon, as I suspected in my previous email. Within a few hours of writing that, there was a resolution to my dilemma whether to trade or not.

If you recall, I wrote: "the Dow has hit an exact Fibonacci target, but is shy of my tramline target. And the euro has hit my tramline target, but is somewhat short of my Fibonacci retrace target."

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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.