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Lower Low

QUICK DEFINITION

Lower Low in Elliott Wave Theory: A swing low that drops below the previous swing low, confirming a downtrend. In a bearish impulse, waves 1, 3, and 5 each make successively lower lows.

What Lower Low Means

A swing low that drops below the previous swing low, confirming a downtrend. In a bearish impulse, waves 1, 3, and 5 each make successively lower lows.

Where You'll See It

Lower Low 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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