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Swing High

QUICK DEFINITION

Swing High in Elliott Wave Theory: A local price peak formed when a high is flanked by lower highs on both sides. Swing highs mark potential wave endpoints, particularly Wave 1, Wave 3, and Wave 5 termination points.

What Swing High Means

A local price peak formed when a high is flanked by lower highs on both sides. Swing highs mark potential wave endpoints, particularly Wave 1, Wave 3, and Wave 5 termination points.

Where You'll See It

Swing 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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