Wave 5
Wave 5 in Elliott Wave Theory: The final impulse wave in the motive sequence. Wave 5 completes the trend and is often equal in length to Wave 1 or reaches 61.8% of the net distance from Wave 1 through Wave 3. It typically shows momentum divergence and lower volume than Wave 3.
What Wave 5 Means
The final impulse wave in the motive sequence. Wave 5 completes the trend and is often equal in length to Wave 1 or reaches 61.8% of the net distance from Wave 1 through Wave 3. It typically shows momentum divergence and lower volume than Wave 3.
Where You'll See It
Wave 5 appears regularly in Artavest's weekly wave-count analysis across 108 US stocks and ETFs. It's part of the impulse family of Elliott Wave concepts and shows up most often when analysts are labelling the 5-wave impulse structure that drives the larger trend.
- → Elliott Wave Theory Guide — the 5-3 pattern, rules, Fibonacci, wave degrees
- → Elliott Wave Cheat Sheet — the 3 absolute rules and 6 Fibonacci relationships
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