Fibonacci Applications and Strategies for Traders

by Fischer, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780471585206
• ISBN10: 0471585203
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-12-16
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

The Wiley Trader's Advantage is a series of concise, highly focused books designed to keep savvy futures, options, bonds, and commodities traders abreast of the latest, most successful strategies and techniques used by the keenest minds in the business. Each title delivers timely, cutting-edge guidance on a key aspect of trading, including trading systems, portfolio management methods, computerized forecasting, and systems optimization. Focusing on the Fibonacci summation series - one of the most important mathematical presentations of natural phenomena ever discovered - Fibonacci Applications and Strategies for Traders is a complete, hands-on resource that shows how to measure price and time signals quickly and with unmatched accuracy using the logarithmic spiral and how to act on these analyses. This breakthrough trading guide first takes a fresh look at the classic principles and applications of Elliott Wave, then introduces the Fibonacci summation series, exploring its crucial role in architecture, engineering, nuclear science, and now, in stock and commodity trading. From here, Fibonacci expert Robert Fischer explains how the series is used to precisely measure equity and commodity price swings and to forecast short- and long-term correction targets. You'll learn how to accurately analyze price targets on market extensions, and how, by using the author's logarithmic spirals, you can easily develop price and time analyses with unheard of precision. No matter what your level of trading expertise, you'll easily follow the groundbreaking principles set forth in this guide to quickly calculate and predict key turning points in the commodity markets, analyze business and economic cycles, and discover entry and exit rules that make disciplined trading possible and profitable. Featuring an optimum mix of practical instruction and guidance, Fibonacci Applications and Strategies for Traders shows how to integr

Author Biography

ROBERT FISCHER has designed computer programs for commodity trading for banks and companies. Since 1990 he has managed commodity funds as a CTA with computer programs that generate trading signals based strictly on pattern recognition. He is President of Fischer Finance Consulting AG, Switzerland, and author of Fibonacci Applications and Strategies for Traders and The New Fibonacci Trader, both published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

The Fibonacci Ratio.

The Elliott Wave Principle in a Nutshell.

Working with a 5-Wave Pattern.

Working with Corrections.

Working with Extensions.

Multiple Fibonacci Price Targets.

Time Analysis.

Combining Price and Time.

The Logarithmic Spiral.

Appendices.

Index.