Wave Analysis: It's All About Fives and Threes
Elliott wave is a highly visual method.

At some point after reading the basics of the Elliott Wave Principle, any beginner says to him or herself that it’s time to try and count some waves. And that’s where things get interesting. The first question you’ll probably ask yourself is, where do I start?

Fear-Based Trading
Even in the toughest markets, Elliott wave analysis gives you a distinct advantage.

Corrective Elliott wave patterns – that is, waves 2 and 4 – often have overlapping, jittery internal wave subdivisions are notoriously difficult to count. Forecasting their termination points is just as hard. However, even during the toughest market corrections, the Elliott Wave Principle gives you a distinct advantage. Here's how...

Elliott Wave: Narrow Down Your Options
Weigh all the probabilities and eliminate the weakest ones – until the strongest one emerges.

Fact: you never know for sure what kind of Elliott wave structure you're dealing with until it's complete. That's a sobering fact for many Elliott wave beginners. They often expect to count perfect five and three-wave structures in charts all the way down to milliseconds. But you just can't. For one, it has to do with the limitations of your data feed. But even if your data were perfect, some ambiguity with real-time wave counts would still remain. Here's how you handle that...

Cotton Futures: Simple Does The Trick
Simply giving your charts a quick visual evaluation can go a long way in your forecasting.

Just like most with technical analysis methods, you can spend days coming up with different ways of applying Elliott wave analysis in your trading – or you can try and keep it simple. Personally, I much prefer simple. Trading is complicated enough.

Silver Standard Resources (SSRI): Clear, Unmistakable Opportunity
Does Elliott wave analysis work stock by stock?

Soybean Meal: You Don't Want To Miss Next Wave
How do you know WHERE a wave 2 correction may end and give way to wave 3, the most powerful wave?

By applying this rule of Elliott in your trading, you always know the exact price point where your "wave two" is no longer a wave two. Which means that you always know the exact price point where to place your stop-loss – a cornerstone of proper risk management.

Futures: Learn To Recognize Complex Corrections
What IS a complex correction, in Elliott wave terms?

Here’s a quick pop quiz for you. Name the two types of Elliott wave corrective formations in these charts. These are the most basic and common corrective patterns in Elliott wave analysis...