DAX index trades with a bid tone, comfortably sitting above the 13,000 area. It held a bullish bias for the entire summer, and coils for yet another leg higher.
According to the Elliott Wave Theory, the DAX index forms a running correction. Such a pattern usually appears before the extended wave in an impulsive structure – a wave that exceeds 161.8% of the first segment. If that is the case, new all-time highs in the DAX index are just a matter of time.
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Dax Index Technical Analysis
The Dax recovery is nothing short of impressive. Unequal at times, it resembles perfectly the complex, running correction forming as the second wave.
Everything that appears in blue in the chart below forms a triple three running – one of the most complex patterns part of the Elliott Waves Theory. It has two intervening waves (the x-waves) and ends with a triangle.
The triangle is the key to trade the pattern. The price must break the b-d trendline, and that is the signal that the third wave has started.
Therefore, to trade the DAX index on the long side, bulls must wait for a break above the b-d trendline. Going long there needs a stop-order at the previous higher low (i.e., the e-wave of the triangle). As for the target, measure 161.8% of the first wave and projected from the end of the second wave (i.e. the e-wave of the triangle). That is enough for a healthy risk-reward ratio and an all-time high for the DAX index.
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