How to Count Waves Using Chart Patterns?We can count waves using traditional patterns like Head and shoulders, Double Top and Bottom,
Triangle, cup & handle, etc. This article is about how you can count waves by identifying chart patterns.
I have covered Three chart patterns in this article,
1) Triangles
2) Head and shoulders
3) Double Top and Bottom
1) Head and shoulders:
In addition, the two lows formed when the price failed to rise and fell back down were basically at the same level. The horizontal line is often referred to as the "neckline" When the price fails to fall back for the third time neckline will break. So "head and shoulders" was officially established.
Changes in volume with head and shoulders:
During the formation of "head and shoulders", the left shoulder has the largest volume, the Head has a slightly smaller volume, and the right shoulder has the smallest volume. The phenomenon of diminishing trading volume shows that when the stock price rises, the chasing force is getting weaker and weaker, and the price has the meaning of rising to the end.
Operation plan after the Head and shoulders appear:
When the head and shoulders formed, you can decisively follow up the short order. The formation of the head and shoulders indicates the beginning of a new round of decline in the market, and the minimum drop is the distance from the head to the neckline. The profit is very substantial. Therefore, studying the formation of the Head and Shoulders is also a necessary analysis process for band enthusiasts.
Wave Count:
The left shoulder: wave 3/A.
The first touch on the neckline: wave 4/B
Head: wave 5/C
The second touch on the neckline: wave A/1
The right shoulder: wave B/2
The ending point of the right shoulder: wave C/3
2) Triangles:
These are the most commonly used triangle patterns. In this motion, we are going to understand the triangle in terms of the Elliot wave. We'll be talking about the classical triangle pattern in an upcoming educational series.
Wave Count:
A triangle forms in corrective waves. There are Four corrective waves in Elliott wave theory. The corrective waves are 2,4, B, and X.
There are four waves in a triangle which are A, B, C, D, E.
The starting point of wave A of the triangle is the ending point of impulsive wave 1/3/A/W. After the completion of wave E of wave 1/3/A/W, the Impulsive wave will initiate.
3) Double Tops and Bottom:
In the chart, you can sometimes see the stock price fluctuations. The stock price fell back after reaching the highest price. After some sorting, it rose again to near the previous stock price level and then fell back. Two "normally highs" The high point is formed on the circuit diagram and will not be seen again in the short term.
Wave Count:
In a Bull market, The first Top of the pattern represents the completion of the impulsive wave. The ending point of the Impulsive wave is the starting point of the corrective wave.
I started the wave count from the first Top and labeled it as A, B, and C waves.
In a Bear Market, The first Bottom of the pattern represents the completion of the impulsive wave. The ending point of the Impulsive wave is the starting point of the corrective wave.
I started the wave count from the first Bottom and labeled it as A, B, and C waves. After wave C is complete, we can ride the impulsive waves.
Triangle Wave
Forget about chart patterns! Hello, my dear friends and happy New Year!
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Today we have a very important topic. How to use Elliott waves instead of classical chart patterns. This is the natural exposure why the chart patterns are garbage. I remember my third year at university when we have the trading lessons. Our teacher gave us a lot of useless knowledges about support, resistance and chart patterns. I have not understood why it should working and it was not soo intereting subject for me. That’s why I returned back to trading much later using self-education. Now I have the clear understanding why Elliott waves is the best tool and why it’s working. Most of traders even don’t understand that chart patterns is just the special case of Elliott waves. That’s why today I decided to explain you how you can change the first one to the second one. Let’s go!
Double Top(Bottom)
On the chart above I drew the different types of double tops. Generally we have 3 types of this pattern
Double top with the second top higher than the first one. In this case we can interpret it in two ways. It could be the classical waves 3, 4, 5 and the corrective wave A at the ending stage. In this case we can anticipate waves B and C. Also it could be the irregular correcton ABC inside wave 4 (rarely in wave 2). In this case we should wait for the wave 5 after that. Traders usually execute short position on the neckline breakdown and suffer when the wave 5 smashed their stop-loss. They are wondering why double top does not working.
Double top with the equal highs has the same possible outcomes. The only one difference that correction called flat instead of irregular.
Double top with the second top lower than the first one. Here is the most common variant is the end of the ABC correction. In this case we have the low potential for shorting the market becuase the new impulsive wave to the upside can hit all stop losses.
Head & Shoulders
This is the easiest pattern for analysis. The right sholder usually is the wave 4, the head, obviously is the wave 5 and the right shoulder is the wave B. On the neckline breakdown we have the shorting potential only in the rest part of the wave C. You could correctly count waves and short that the bearish reversal bar of the wave 5 or, as a last resort, at wave B potential top. Shorting at the neckline has sence only if you are sure that the wave B was the the wave 1 of the impulsive wave to the downside if higher degree and now the market is in wave 3. We have to learn how to count waves in a correct way. I would recommend you to read the Trading Chaos book by Bill Williams because it has the best explanation how do waves work.
Triangles and Wedges
This part is common for all types of triangles (ascending, descending, symmetrical) and wedges (falling and rising). This patterns have the similar structure. If we faced with one of these patterns we have 4 possible scenarios.
Triangle in the downtrend after the wave 3. In this case triangle is the wave 4, which is represented as the triangle correction. This correction type consists of 5 waves A, B, C, D and E. When the wave E is finished market will continue it’s move in the direction of a trend, printing the wave 5.
The same, but in the uptrend.
When the market showed us the 5 waves cycle to the upside and the correction is in progress. Triangle can appears in the wave B. In this case the price will continue the corrective move in the wave C after it’s finished.
The same with the downtrend.
Guys, of course there are much more types of chart patterns. For example, tripple tops and bottoms and so on. The purpose of this article is giving you another view of the market structure and to motivate you studying the Elliott waves theory. Believe me, it has much more potential than it seems on the first glimplse.
Best regards, Ivan
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How to trade the Elliott wave triangle correction?Triangles seem very easy to trade but act differently when it comes to trading.
#Elliottwaves have a very important, genuine, consolidated and beautiful pattern that is #triangle correction.
The structure of the triangle is 3,3,3,3,3. It means the triangle has 5 waves in it and each wave is sub-divided into 3 waves which we call (a,b,c,d,e). After 5 waves the triangle should have to burst out in the direction of the main trend. In a special case, when a limiting triangle occurs, it made 9 waves all of 3 sub-waves. i.e. 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3.
An Elliottician thinks that it is easy to judge when the triangle finishes its 5 waves and we can play a move along with the trend. But ain't that easy. Most of the time, two types of problems a trader faces while dealing with the triangle.
A triangle in the Elliott wave which has 3 sub-waves in all 5 waves usually has a zigzag correction in it, but inside that Zigzag, wave B can be expanded flat. It always creates an illusion that the triangle is over whenever an expanded flat is formed, and an expanded flat is made in wave c of the triangle.
A good trader is one who doesn't lose patience and sees the triangle bursting before its actual ending. With this false wave count, sometimes a trader's stop-loss doesn't get hit, but it takes too much time to actually complete the triangle. So, for an option buyer, this false illusion can be a death to the trade as all the premium will decay if he enters too early in the triangle.
As shown in my attached previous analysis of #HDFC , there is no genuine way to know from where the actual triangle starts in the Elliott wave. When the correction starts, the first leg can be a wave A of Zigzag, and the triangle can occur in wave B of Zigzag. The other alternative is the whole move is the triangle which starts from wave A and will end at wave B
Now, the first leg i.e. wave A of Zigzag is also a 3 wave move. So, it is difficult to make sure if the whole move is a triangle or if the triangle is in wave B of Zigzag.
So, the best way to trade a triangle is to be patient first of all, and trade only when the price breaks out from wave D. It will save a lot of your time and money. The technical analysis is all about the Price and Time as well.
Happy Trading!
BANK NIFTY LOOKS LIKE MOVING INSIDE A TRIANGLE.TRIANGLE ARE A PATTERN ON CONSOLIDATION AND ARE THE LAST LEG OF A TREND. GENERALLY BREAKDOWN AND REVERSE JUST LIKE WE RECENTLY SAW IN SBIN.
CURRENTLY WE ARE WAITING FOR WAVE D AND E TO FINISH BEFORE ENTERING A TRADE. WAVE A HIGH IS INVALIDATION OF THE TRIANGLE. IF THAT BREAKS WE ARE LOOKING AT A COMPLEX CORRECTION.
XAUUSD Triangular Correction - Is it Ascending or Symmetrical?The market isn't giving anything away as usual... what do you think this triangular correction is?
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Breakout from Downwards Triangle Triangle formations always precede breakouts! It is best with cryptocurrency to look for triangles on 4hr or 1hr charts, though sometimes one can find them on 1 day charts.
Like a series of waves getting smaller and smaller until the shape is formed, triangles must have three complete waves to accurately precede a breakout.
Here you can see the three waves forming the triangle structure and the breakout downwards.
The breakout immediately continued until the price hit the RSI 30 mark - oversold.
The signal line crossed the MACD line marking a bearish reversal as well.
I am not currently invested but wanted to offer this post as education.