Ride The Waves: The Fundamentals

What's goin' on Steamians? How many of you looked up Elliott Wave tutorials and ended up with nothing but shitty advice from shitty traders? How many of you have tried to put into practice what you've seen and completely failed?

Worry no more, my friends! My goal with this series is to help you become a profitable trader in as little time as possible.

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Anyways, enough about me - let's get into the first tutorial: the fundamentals.

Key Info In This Tutorial

Elliott Wave Theory is the analysis of market behavior. R.N Elliott (the originator of the theory) studied charts for a significant portion of his life and found that these behaviors had patterns

The market travels up in five waves (impulsive pattern - denoted 1,2,3,4,5) and down in 3 (corrective pattern - denoted ABC)

Within each of these waves are another set of Elliott Waves. For example, there are 5 waves within the wave 1. These are what's known as fractals.

There are 3 rules for counting Elliott Waves that you MUST consider:

Wave 2 must not correct more than 100% of Wave 1
Wave 3 is mostly the largest wave, but can never be the shortest
Wave 4 cannot retrace into the zone of Wave 1

There are 3 guidelines for counting Elliott Waves that you should consider:

Rule of Alternation: Wave 2 and 4 will alternate in complexity/ duration (aka if wave 2 is a simple correction, wave 4 will likely be complex)
When Wave 3 is the longest wave, Wave 5 will approximately equal the size of Wave 1
ABC corrections typically end at the 4th Wave of the previous impulse