Bill McLaren

[coyotte 10]

Have just finished reviewing again Bill McLaren's dvd " Foundation for Successful Trading " .

 

When one looks at the basics of what Bill is explaining it really is a quite simple but extremely powerful and versatile method with PRICE action stripped down to it's bare roots .

 

Wondering if any other posters apply or have applied Bill's methods and what their thoughts on it are ?

 

Cheers

[coyotte 10]

PNA as a classic McLaren Long setup (as I understand it)

 

1: the GAP from the previouse High to current Low is the Entry signal

2: the LAST High MUST be taken out with this swing (otherwise 2 lower highs)

3: resistance expected @ the Low before the Last High (could form a Asc Tri )

4: Volume on Sell bars has been lower than on the Buy Bars.

 

Any constructive criticism welcome .

[brownsfan019 17]

coyote - I'm not familiar with this service, but if you want to get some discussion going, giving a reader's digest version may help. Just b/c someone has not read the book or watched the DVD does not mean they cannot discuss the ideas with you.

 

Just an idea.

[BlowFish 10]

Had a quick look at hs web site. Looks interesting and prety much 'in alignment' with my own aproach. I'd quite like to hear a bit more about it Cyotte if you have a moment.

 

Actualy there are a couple of things thave caught my interest recently its hard to be selective sometime.

[BlowFish 10]

Actually it thinking a bt further it looks to share much with Wlaters flip trade.

[coyotte 10]

McLaren's DVD is mainly about trading the counter trends within the predominate trend.

 

You can keep it simple with the trend patterns or more advanced with the amount of days within the counter trends .

 

A classic simple example is the PNA chart

 

1: if the last HIGH is not taken out with any up swing -- then that swing will be the 2nd lower high -- a 3rd lower high would signal a SHORT trade is probably forming.

 

 

2: the "Low before the High forming the resistance guideline " I find can be useful for identifying a Ascending Triangle early .

 

3: the recent Low forming a gap with the mentioned high is very bullish

 

 

Bill goes on about the 3 higher low swings after a major decline often leading to a recovery .

 

He covers EW / Gann but not in the conventional manner.

 

 

 

Cheers

[Tasuki 10]

coyotte, I can't find the symbol PNA which you used in your example. Has it been renamed?

[coyotte 10]

PNA -- Pan Australian Resources -- on the Aussie Exchange.

 

Sorry usually only hang around the Australian Sites

 

Cheers

[coyotte 10]

will try and up load chart.(posted on another forum over the weekend)

it is from last Friday 29/6 and since then the Triangle has continued to form .

The Gap between the low & high under McLaren is quite Bullish -- but the bit about McLaren I question is about 3 lower highs being very bearish as in EW theory this can this not simply be a 5 wave correction ?

[BlowFish 10]

Dunno - I thought ABCD corrections where the 'norm' with B & D being the two lows. Actually I found Elliot's stuff fundamentally flawed having said that if you re-write the whole lot with 'move correction move' as the smallest building block (123) it makes much more sense. A standard elliot 12345 then becomes two 123's in the same direction one after the other. Doing this makes everything far more 'fractal' and symetric in nature.

 

The Mclaren stuff still looks intresting but I am a sucker for price action and market strucure type aproaches. Cant help feeling its all been covered by Gann & Dunnigan et. al. Of course this dosen't diminish the value and should be taken as praise rather than critiscm.