Flat
Flat in Elliott Wave Theory: A three-wave corrective pattern (A-B-C) where Wave A is three waves, Wave B retraces most or all of Wave A, and Wave C is five waves. Flats tend to be more sideways than zigzags. Three types exist: regular, expanded, and running.
What Flat Means
A three-wave corrective pattern (A-B-C) where Wave A is three waves, Wave B retraces most or all of Wave A, and Wave C is five waves. Flats tend to be more sideways than zigzags. Three types exist: regular, expanded, and running.
Where You'll See It
Flat appears regularly in Artavest's weekly wave-count analysis across 108 US stocks and ETFs. It's part of the corrective family of Elliott Wave concepts and shows up most often when analysts are decoding a 3-wave correction inside a larger impulse — A-B-C, zigzag, flat, or triangle.
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