Learn How to Label Elliott Waves More Accurately
By: EWI
Are you looking for an easy way to improve your confidence as you analyze the charts you trade? Take a quick look at this chart (adapted from Jeffrey Kennedy's December 26 Elliott Wave Junctures lesson) to see how divergence relationships help clarify your analysis.
According to Jeffrey, divergence relationships are easy to identify. Whenever prices make a new extreme, look for underlying indicators to move in the opposite direction. Specifically,
Jeffrey notes that if you label an advance as a 5th wave move, and yet you do not see momentum divergence, that tends to argue for an extended 5th wave.
Next, at waves A and C, you can see an example of bullish divergence. Wave A bottomed at $32.90 in HAL and wave C ended much lower at $29.83. The histogram readings that correspond to waves A and C are -36.26 and -26.60, respectively.
Here's another example of divergence between waves A and C in Akamai Technologies (AKAM).
Notice that wave C is lower in price than wave A. However, if you look at the MACD histogram, you'll see that it registered a higher reading in wave C than it did in wave A, thus giving us a bullish divergence.
Are you looking for an easy way to improve your confidence as you analyze the charts you trade? Take a quick look at this chart (adapted from Jeffrey Kennedy's December 26 Elliott Wave Junctures lesson) to see how divergence relationships help clarify your analysis.
According to Jeffrey, divergence relationships are easy to identify. Whenever prices make a new extreme, look for underlying indicators to move in the opposite direction. Specifically,
Jeffrey notes that if you label an advance as a 5th wave move, and yet you do not see momentum divergence, that tends to argue for an extended 5th wave.
Next, at waves A and C, you can see an example of bullish divergence. Wave A bottomed at $32.90 in HAL and wave C ended much lower at $29.83. The histogram readings that correspond to waves A and C are -36.26 and -26.60, respectively.
Here's another example of divergence between waves A and C in Akamai Technologies (AKAM).
Notice that wave C is lower in price than wave A. However, if you look at the MACD histogram, you'll see that it registered a higher reading in wave C than it did in wave A, thus giving us a bullish divergence.
Jeffrey notes that if you label an advance as a 5th wave move, and
yet you do not see momentum divergence, that tends to argue for an
extended 5th wave.
Next, at waves A and C, you can see an example of bullish divergence.
Wave A bottomed at $32.90 in HAL and wave C ended much lower at $29.83.
The histogram readings that correspond to waves A and C are -36.26 and
-26.60, respectively.
Here's another example of divergence between waves A and C in Akamai Technologies (AKAM).
Notice that wave C is lower in price than wave A. However, if you
look at the MACD histogram, you'll see that it registered a higher
reading in wave C than it did in wave A, thus giving us a bullish
divergence.
Understanding that Elliott waves demonstrate unique momentum
relationships as well as price structure allows you to label waves more
accurately and with greater confidence.
