When the trader evaluate the Forex market and find swing trade opportunities, they concentrate on estimating the flows of the trade or the direction of the currency pair. In order to get good result traders depend on technical analysis.There are leading and lagging indicators in technical analysis same as in fundamental indicators. Another important tool for analyzing the trading swings is Elliot Wave Analysis.

This is used to recognize the trends of the currency against cross currency trades. The nature of trend whether it is in continuation or exhausted at the trading window to find out the price fluctuations of different currency pairs.

It’s plus point is that the tool can be implemented at both long-term and short-term Forex trading and swing trades across the currency pairs.

Ralph Nelson Elliot puts the theory forward; it states that the market moves in a regular patterns and repetitive manner like waves. He considered it as the mass psychology of the time of the trades Forex market.
Elliot said that the Forex trade movement was the consequent effect of the mass psychology of the trades and the fractal stock.

A fractal is an object that is identical in shape but differ in trading scales. The Forex trades are identical in nature but differ in proportion only.

Elliot waves forms a regular pattern that consists of market movement of three upward waves and two downward waves. These together form the foundation of the 5-wave pattern.

• Short Covering wave
• Turn-back from short covering wave
• Main trading rally phase
• Break point of the rally
• Retail trading
These are the five different Elliot waves formed in the trading and examining these waves, traders can analyze the price fluctuations of the market.