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Wave 4 Rule

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Wave 4 Rule in Elliott Wave Theory: An absolute rule stating that in an impulse wave, Wave 4 cannot enter the price territory of Wave 1. The low of Wave 4 must remain above the high of Wave 1 in a bull market (and vice versa in a bear market). The only exception is in diagonal patterns.

What Wave 4 Rule Means

An absolute rule stating that in an impulse wave, Wave 4 cannot enter the price territory of Wave 1. The low of Wave 4 must remain above the high of Wave 1 in a bull market (and vice versa in a bear market). The only exception is in diagonal patterns.

Where You'll See It

Wave 4 Rule appears regularly in Artavest's weekly wave-count analysis across 108 US stocks and ETFs. It's part of the rule family of Elliott Wave concepts and shows up most often when analysts are checking whether a candidate wave count satisfies the absolute rules — a violation kills the count immediately.

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