Regular Flat Correction (3-3-5)

While zigzags represent aggressive, vertical counter-trend corrections, markets spend the vast majority of their consolidating energy moving sideways. When mass psychology is evenly balanced between underlying trend conviction and short-term exhaustion, price constructs a horizontal framework known as a Flat Correction. Among the three variations of flats (Regular, Expanded, and Running), the Regular Flat is […]

Expanded Flat Correction in Elliott Wave

Of all the corrective patterns in market geometry, none is more psychologically devastating or widely misunderstood than the Expanded Flat. While a regular flat remains comfortably contained within horizontal parallel boundaries, an Expanded Flat shatters boundaries in both directions. In an Expanded Flat, Wave B aggressively pushes beyond the starting point of Wave A, creating […]

Running Flat Correction Explained

In standard corrective patterns, the market gives up a measurable amount of price territory as it digests a prior advance. However, in environments governed by overwhelming, generational trend momentum, the market refuses to correct in any meaningful downward direction. When sellers cannot even force price to retrace back to the origin of the correction, mass […]