Elliott Wave Principle
We all know the
importance of Technical Analysis and how it works in today’s market. Technical
tools like channels, Fibonacci retracements and oscillators like RSI, MACD etc
do give us signals for when to buy and sell. Combining simple technicals along
with advance technicals like Elliott wave and Gann Analysis always keep us one
step ahead of the market movement.
Advance technical
eradicate subjectivity and helps to take proper trading decisions. Today we
shall see some important concepts of Elliott Wave theory.
In 1920 R.N. Elliott
invented this theory and named Elliott Wave. He observed that there are
thirteen patterns or waves that recur in market price data and are repetitive
in form, but are not necessarily repetitive in amplitude or time.
We will now discuss
some important concepts of Elliott wave theory
R. N Elliott has
discovered 2 types of waves in the market
1. Motive or Impulse
wave
2. Corrective Wave
1. Motive or Impulse
waves
Elliott said that an
impulse wave should have 5 waves in which 3 waves should decide the main
direction of the trend while other 2 should be countertrend or corrective wave.
By this he wanted to say that 3 waves will progress or regress but will tell
you the main trend and the 3 waves are (1,3 &5). The other 2 which are
corrective in nature will interrupt the main trend (2 &4).
There are some
important rules to identify impulse waves
1. Wave
2 which is a counter trend should not retrace the beginning of wave 1
2. Wave
3 of all the motive waves should not be the shortest
3. Wave
4 which is again a corrective wave should not overlap or enter in the territory
of wave 1.
The above rules only
apply for motive waves and not corrective.
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