Quote from deadbroke:
When a downtrend ends, especially a long downtrend, and the first wave up fires, one knows that its a first wave up because the preceding sideways motion aka triangle before the final low denotes a 4th wave so one is ready and knows that a reversal is at hand.
Note sometimes there is no triangle but a simple zigzag, so then one gets verification from momentum to know that a 4th is occurring.
Anyway, after the reversal has occurred and a first wave up has been printed, there must be a correction aka wave 2 and this wave 2 will hold above the low and when momentum gets very low to the downside you've just gotta get in with full power, I mean total power and ALL wherewithal that you've set aside for trading purposes because that there is the
LOWEST RISK IN CHRISTENDOM
Wave 3 up immediately thereafter will give you sooooo much profits that you don't need to trade much thereafter - that's exactly why my # of trades is small.
Then I wait for the 4th wave low and get in for wave 5 - the risk level is a bit higher here but still acceptable.