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  • Welcome to the Investors Trading Academy talking glossary of financial terms and events.

  • Our word of the day isElliott Wave Theory” “The Wave Principlewas developed by

  • Ralph Nelson Elliott’s, it is a discovery that social, or crowd, behavior trends and

  • reverses in recognizable patterns. Using stock market data for the Dow Jones Industrial Average

  • as his main research tool, Elliott discovered that the ever-changing path of stock market

  • prices reveals a structural design that in turn reflects a basic harmony found in nature.

  • From this discovery, he developed a rational system of market analysis.

  • Elliott Wave Principle measures investor psychology, which is the real engine behind the stock

  • markets. When people are optimistic about the future of a given issue, they bid the

  • price up. Elliott isolated thirteenwaves,” or

  • patterns of directional movement, that recur in markets and are repetitive in form, but

  • are not necessarily repetitive in time or amplitude. He named, defined and illustrated

  • the patterns. He then described how these structures link together to form larger versions

  • of the same patterns, how those in turn are the building blocks for patterns of the next

  • larger size, and so on. His descriptions constitute a set of empirically derived rules and guidelines

  • for interpreting market action.

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