# Elliott Wave Patterns: Five-Wave Rallies vs. Three-Wave Bounces

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120824538023797101
- Source account: [@ItsStopFirst](https://x.com/ItsStopFirst)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 0:55
- Published: 2026-11-12
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QuRjNZRsJwiy/en/elliott-wave-patterns-five-wave-rallies-vs-three-wave-bounces

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QuRjNZRsJwiy/en/elliott-wave-patterns-five-wave-rallies-vs-three-wave-bounces) I don't judge a rally by its height, I judge its shape.

[0:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QuRjNZRsJwiy/en/elliott-wave-patterns-five-wave-rallies-vs-three-wave-bounces?t=4) These two climb exactly as far. On the left, five waves, big pushes, shallow dips, and the fourth never gets back to the first.

[0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QuRjNZRsJwiy/en/elliott-wave-patterns-five-wave-rallies-vs-three-wave-bounces?t=14) On the right, three waves that keep overlapping, the middle one giving up most of the first.

[0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QuRjNZRsJwiy/en/elliott-wave-patterns-five-wave-rallies-vs-three-wave-bounces?t=20) I can usually spot that early. A bounce in three waves after a big drop is a red flag to me, never a green light.

[0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QuRjNZRsJwiy/en/elliott-wave-patterns-five-wave-rallies-vs-three-wave-bounces?t=27) Across a full cycle, accounts bleed in the second, fourth, and B-waves.

[0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QuRjNZRsJwiy/en/elliott-wave-patterns-five-wave-rallies-vs-three-wave-bounces?t=33) B is the sneakiest. When a market feels wrong to me, I ask if I'm inside a B-wave.

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QuRjNZRsJwiy/en/elliott-wave-patterns-five-wave-rallies-vs-three-wave-bounces?t=39) In a correction, I study the shape and wait.

[0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QuRjNZRsJwiy/en/elliott-wave-patterns-five-wave-rallies-vs-three-wave-bounces?t=42) The real move begins after it. Shape is evidence, not proof.

[0:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QuRjNZRsJwiy/en/elliott-wave-patterns-five-wave-rallies-vs-three-wave-bounces?t=47) Diagonals and strong C-waves can bend it.

[0:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/QuRjNZRsJwiy/en/elliott-wave-patterns-five-wave-rallies-vs-three-wave-bounces?t=50) Same climb, a different story.