A reader asked me to take a look at Las Vegas Sands (LVS) and I found some fascinating patterns, including a complete Elliott Wave Count, Cradle Trade, and Bear Flag.  Let’s see these in action!

Las Vegas Sands (LVS) Weekly:

Las Vegas Sands is a Gambling/Recreational Company famous for their casinos.

Price made an all-time high of $150 per share in October 2007 (right as the market itself made all-time highs) but this stock cratered almost to zero within a year’s time, serving as a lesson that stocks can fall much further than you think they can and that selling a losing investment early is often a preferable strategy to “holding and hoping.”

Price formed a Five-Wave Elliott Structure into the 2008 lows – notice the clean progression and fractal movement.

Notice also that the “Cradle Trade” formed again on Elliott Wave 2.  A Bear Flag formed on Wave 4.

The momentum oscillator was not particularly helpful in giving us specific clues, so it was useful more as a “Swing Confirmation” Oscillator than its normal “Momentum Oscillator” Function (remember, the 3/10 Oscillator is 3 indicators in one – Momentum, Swing, and Trend).

Focus also on the clean Bear Flag that set-up which led to the final price lows at the end of 2008.

There’s many more insights to gather from this chart, but I wanted to highlight a few of these for you.  Keep looking for other lessons to learn from this chart!

Corey Rosenbloom
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