{"id":32265,"date":"2012-09-12T20:57:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T00:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/?p=32265"},"modified":"2012-09-12T20:59:10","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T00:59:10","slug":"big-advantages-of-trading-with-the-wave-principle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2012\/09\/12\/big-advantages-of-trading-with-the-wave-principle\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Advantages of Trading with the Wave Principle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Plus: Discover Where to Place &#8220;Protective Stops&#8221; <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: small;\">By Elliott Wave International<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>What advantages does the Wave Principle offer to traders?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one of the big advantages of using the Wave Principle when trading: you can increase your understanding of <em>how current price action<\/em> relates to the <em>market&#8217;s larger trend<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Other tools fall short in this regard. Several trend-following indicators such as oscillators and sentiment measures have their strong points, yet they generally fail to reveal the <strong>maturity <\/strong>of a trend. Moreover, these technical approaches to trading are not as useful in establishing <strong>price targets<\/strong> as the Wave Principle.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another big advantage of using the Wave Principle in your trading, which comes directly from the free eBook <em>&#8220;How the Wave Principle Can Improve Your Trading&#8221;<\/em> &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Technical studies can pick out many trading opportunities, but the Wave Principle helps traders discern which ones have the highest probability of being successful.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, this valuable free eBook shows you how to identify and exploit the market&#8217;s price pattern, as shown in the Elliott wave structure below:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elliottwave.com\/images\/freeupdates\/Image\/WPTrading.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"412\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Wave Principle also helps you to identify price levels where you may want to place protective stops.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230;although the Wave Principle is highly regarded as an analytical tool, many traders abandon it when they trade in real-time &#8212; mainly because they don&#8217;t think it provides the defined rules and guidelines of a typical trading system.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But not so fast &#8212; although the Wave Principle isn&#8217;t a trading &#8220;system,&#8221; its built-in rules do show you where to place protective stops in real-time trading<\/em>.&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;How the Wave Principle Can Improve Your Trading&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Before you attempt to identify price levels for protective or trailing stops, you should first become familiar with these three rules of the Wave Principle:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Wave 2 can never retrace more than 100 percent of wave 1<\/li>\n<li>Wave 4 may never end in the price territory of wave 1<\/li>\n<li>Wave 3 may never be the shortest impulse wave of waves 1, 3, and 5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elliottwave.com\/r.asp?acn=9cp&amp;rcn=aa306&amp;dy=aa091112&amp;url=http:\/\/www.elliottwave.com\/club\/improve-your-trading\/default.aspx?code=40817\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elliottwave.com\/images\/club\/web_ads\/3316-CG-Trading.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td width=\"921\">The details and specific instructions for placing protective and trailing stops are in the BONUS section of the <strong>free eBook, &#8220;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elliottwave.com\/r.asp?acn=9cp&amp;rcn=aa306&amp;dy=aa091112&amp;url=http:\/\/www.elliottwave.com\/club\/improve-your-trading\/default.aspx?code=40817%26articleid=2071\">How the Wave Principle Can Improve Your Trading<\/a><\/em>.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what you&#8217;ll learn:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>How the Wave Principle provides you with price targets<\/li>\n<li>How it gives you specific &#8220;points of ruin&#8221;: At what point does a trade fail?<\/li>\n<li>What specific trading opportunities the Wave Principle offers you<\/li>\n<li>How to use the Wave Principle to set protective stops<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elliottwave.com\/r.asp?acn=9cp&amp;rcn=aa306&amp;dy=aa091112&amp;url=http:\/\/www.elliottwave.com\/club\/improve-your-trading\/default.aspx?code=40817\"><strong>Keep reading this free lesson now &gt;&gt;<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>\n<p><em>This article was syndicated by Elliott Wave International and was originally published under the headline <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elliottwave.com\/r.asp?acn=9cp&amp;rcn=aa306&amp;dy=aa091112&amp;url=http:\/\/www.elliottwave.com\/freeupdates\/archives\/2011\/03\/03\/Big-Advantages-of-Trading-with-the-Wave-Principle.aspx\"><strong>Big Advantages of Trading with the Wave Principle<\/strong><\/a>. EWI is the world&#8217;s largest market forecasting firm. Its staff of full-time analysts led by Chartered Market Technician Robert Prechter provides 24-hour-a-day market analysis to institutional and private investors around the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: Discover Where to Place &#8220;Protective Stops&#8221; By Elliott Wave International What advantages does the Wave Principle offer to traders? Here&#8217;s one of the big advantages of using the Wave Principle when trading: you can increase your understanding of how current price action relates to the market&#8217;s larger trend. Other tools fall short in this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2012\/09\/12\/big-advantages-of-trading-with-the-wave-principle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Big Advantages of Trading with the Wave Principle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}