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Breakdown

QUICK DEFINITION

Breakdown in Elliott Wave Theory: A price movement below a defined support level or pattern boundary. In bearish Elliott Wave structures, breakdowns often confirm Wave C initiation or the start of a new impulsive decline.

What Breakdown Means

A price movement below a defined support level or pattern boundary. In bearish Elliott Wave structures, breakdowns often confirm Wave C initiation or the start of a new impulsive decline.

Where You'll See It

Breakdown appears regularly in Artavest's weekly wave-count analysis across 108 US stocks and ETFs. It's part of the technical family of Elliott Wave concepts and shows up most often when analysts are applying technical analysis tools — RSI, MACD, moving averages — alongside the wave count.

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