Since there seems to be lull in posting I wanted to canvas traders who might employ Elliot wave counts.
I know you're out there, especially when a wedge starts to form in the 5min chart.
I might be a scalper, but my goal is to spend less time eyes glued to the screens, less trades, and bigger profits per trade. (I don't know whether I shoud even bother with E-wave counts at this point.)
I want to emphasize that I really do not constantly try to count ewaves (toooo subjective for my feeble brain) but when an obvious count pops off the chart at me, it does add to my confidence for assessment of the markets (intraday as well as longer-term timing).
Does anyone care to share any mechanical rules that they might use. (Even if you don't, the lines on the chart are entertaining, but is this simply a case of being "fooled by randomness," or maybe a case of curve fitting as the retracement percentages just happen to work due to the recent volatility?)
selection of the % retracements was totally arbitrary, and I only picked them out once (did not fiddle with them to make the ewave count look pretty). In a mechanical approach to counting, maybe choices for the big wave % retracement count and the smaller wave percentage retracement count could be a function of %average true range over the past 30, 60? trade days.
If you have any thoughts, can you give me an interpretation of what might be going on since the completion of big blue wave 5 on the attached chart?
RE: attached chart,
Chart is daily RTH of the ES in whatever fashion TradeStation adjusts for rollforwards.
Thick Blue Line is the zigzag% retracements of 5%
Thin Red line is zigzag% retracements of 2%
Thin BLACK line is close of ES, daily chart RTH only
It's curiosity if nothing else.
And if this kind of post upsets you, B1S2, I apologize in advance. delete it if you please.