Posted this last night ($SPX weekly) on another topic:
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Nice! Thanks. That's what I thought you said. I got it.

Posted this last night ($SPX weekly) on another topic:
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That's a stupid definition, contrived by the media, and I totally disagree with it.
As you appear to know some EWT, here's my "bottom line, thumbnail" on your chart.You are right. I don't follow it either but the masses do. Its simple for them to understand instead of squiggly lines and fibonacci overload etc.
The strictest and best definition I know of is just basic-basic ..................
lower low or lower high usually can start the ball rolling toward a reversal.
A confirmed lower low and lower high is Bread Pudding served on a silver platter
Then when that lower Low is taken out, you throw cream and strawberries on the pudding and start devouring SHORT.
So that then is a TREND REVERSAL.
So, when oh when oh when does this become a BEAR Market? When the low of the first 5-wave move is taken out and the market appears to accelerate down slopewise
See QQQ daily. The top red trendline when broken gives good odds of REVERSAL. When the 2nd red trendline is taken out its a BEAR confirmation to 65% odds. But a dramatic change in slope shoots the odds to 100% as in the case of these Qs. See the purple trendline down for the change in slope
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As you appear to know some EWT, here's my "bottom line, thumbnail" on your chart.
1. It's either the start of a bear market and we're currently doing a W4... maybe a W4 of W1 to the downside, and that would argue MUCH, MUCH lower before the final low.
2. It's a big A-B-C, W4 correction to the bull market that began with the Covid low.
Too soon to know which, but we should all keep both notions in mind for now... But in itself, has not been a (completed) bear market... to be followed by a new bull market.
Of course I could be wrong about both scenarios... so keeping an open mind is vital.


But EWT count would fail to explain how a Wave 4 (Covid wave) could be soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo YUGEly devastating.
Agree, it's HUGE... and easy to conclude "bear (possible) market".... but watching it I couldn't eliminate it as a possibility. We'll likely know for sure if the ATH is tested/broken.
Unrelated is the consensus that ..............
Elliottwave practitioners do it with Alternates
They are the worst market timers in the world
They have killed more subscribers than even the American civil war
They sure as heck killed all my friends to the poorhouse.
But they are all fine people. Love Bob and Steve. Bob puts out some really fine Research which I always love to read. But I run fast when he switches to TIMING. And a final note is that when it comes to TIMING, I'm a bigger bum than he as per my performance in trading the Q here at ET thus far.
Billy and Johnny together lost 9.6 million when they were subscribers for 2 years and had to live at the YMCA in Hollywood and I had to feed them weekly and pay the bills for lodging until they recovered mentally, so distraught they were

Yeah and keep this in mind ............ Corona downwave only lasted from Feb 12 to March 23 = 27 trading days
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