Technical
Retest
QUICK DEFINITION
Retest in Elliott Wave Theory: When price returns to a previously broken support or resistance level to confirm the breakout. In Elliott Wave, retests often occur as part of Wave 2 after a Wave 1 breakout.
What Retest Means
When price returns to a previously broken support or resistance level to confirm the breakout. In Elliott Wave, retests often occur as part of Wave 2 after a Wave 1 breakout.
Where You'll See It
Retest 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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- → Elliott Wave Theory Guide — the 5-3 pattern, rules, Fibonacci, wave degrees
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