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Practical Elliott Wave Trading Strategies A Special Tutorial Series For Subscribers To The Dynamic Trader Reports
Practical Elliott Wave Trading Strategies Part 1 Robert Miner, Dynamic Traders Group, Inc.
This tutorial begins a series of how to apply Elliott wave analysis for practical trading strategies. All subscribers have some Elliott wave background from my Dynamic Trading book. Because that book goes through the pattern structures in detail, there is no need to repeat that information in this tutorial series. It is assumed for this series, that subscribers are familiar with Chapter 3 of Dynamic Trading and how the most frequent pattern subdivide. Besides teaching you the practical application of Elliott wave trading strategies, an objective of this series will also be to dispel some Elliott wave myths and bad practices fostered by Elliott wave academics. Everything taught in this tutorial series will apply to any actively traded market included futures, stocks, indexes and mutual funds and any time frame whether five-minute or monthly.
What You Should Know Before Beginning This Tutorial Series From your study of Elliott wave in Chapter 3 of Dynamic Trading, you should be familiar with these concepts. Impulse Trend – Usually unfolds in five-waves. Five-wave impulse trends are usually made in the direction of the larger degree trend. Counter-Trend – Usually unfolds in three-waves. A counter-trend is a correction to the prior impulse trend. Waves of Similar Degree – Also called swings of similar degree. Waves of similar degree represent the subdivisions that make up a completed structure. In an impulse trend, waves one-five are the waves of similar degree. The subdivisions of each wave are waves of a smaller degree. Subdivisions of a Wave – Any given wave may subdivide into smaller degree waves to complete the structure of the wave. For instance, Wave-1 of a five-wave