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Lower High

QUICK DEFINITION

Lower High in Elliott Wave Theory: A swing high that fails to exceed the previous swing high. A series of lower highs signals a downtrend and is characteristic of bearish corrective or impulse structures.

What Lower High Means

A swing high that fails to exceed the previous swing high. A series of lower highs signals a downtrend and is characteristic of bearish corrective or impulse structures.

Where You'll See It

Lower High 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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