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RS2U Elliott Wave report

Amundi Index Solutions - Amundi Russell 2000

Week ending 7 Aug 2026 Close USD 453.95 276 weekly observations
Current structure Possible Wave 3 advancing
90/100 setup score 100/100 data quality
The setup score is a rules-based composite, not a probability or price forecast.
Investment view

What the current structure is saying

Based on weekly closing prices
Setup lifecycle

Setup in timing window

The lifecycle separates an interesting setup from price confirmation, an active thesis, maturity and invalidation.

Now

Possible Wave 3 advancing is the highest-ranked admissible primary count; cycle status is falling stack.

Next

A weekly close through 453.95, supported by an FLD cross and improving relative strength.

Wrong

The underlying directional structure fails beyond 369.50; a forming endpoint can extend before that happens.

Risk

The active endpoint can move until its reversal is confirmed; earnings, gaps and volatility can jump through technical levels.

The picture behind the setup

Weekly wave structure and decision levels

Filled markers are confirmed pivots; the outlined marker is still forming. Decision lines show where the primary interpretation confirms or fails.

Close 30-week trend Fair Value Confirm Directional failure
Scenario comparison

How the valid counts compete

Possible Wave 3 advancing31%
Bearish A/B/C rebound may be completing29%
Bearish A/B/C rebound may be completing40%
Relative evidence among displayed counts—not forecast probabilities.
Pre-emptive downside check

Watch

45/100
Wave maturity0/25
Trend extension5/20
Range position14/15
Cycle rollover15/15
Multi-cycle risk11/15
Count instability0/10
Event proximity0/10

This is a pre-emptive vulnerability checklist, not a probability of decline. It rises when mature wave structure, overextension, cycle rollover, count instability and event risk cluster before price breaks down.

Current read

The closing-price swing map is classified as possible wave 3 advancing. Price is 9.3% above its 30-week trend. 5 of 7 available confirmation measures are constructive.

5 constructive · 0 neutral · 2 weak

What would confirm it

Evidence to look for next

  • A new closing-price high that holds above the 30-week trend.
  • Cycle pressure and the 20/40-week rhythms continuing to rise together.
  • Relative strength and market activity remaining above neutral.
What would challenge it

Bullish structure weakens below

USD 369.50

Confirmed on 2026-03-27. Treat this as a structure reference, not an automatic trading level.

4-week return 1.6%
13-week return 6.4%
26-week return 14.7%
52-week return 37.5%
From 52-week high -0.4%
26-week volatility 16.8%
Wave structure

Price, trend and the active swing

The chart uses a 5.1% closing-price reversal threshold. Filled markers are confirmed pivots; the outlined final marker is still forming.

Primary admissible count

Possible Wave 3 advancing

31% evidence weight

Counts must pass hard Elliott geometry rules. Fibonacci relationships, alternation and cycle evidence rank admissible interpretations; evidence weights compare scenarios and are not forecast probabilities.

Confirm 453.95 Invalidate 369.50 Count stability High · 100/100
PassWave 2 protects the Wave 1 originOrigin 345.30; Wave 2 369.50.
PassWave 3 exceeds Wave 1Wave 1 402.55; Wave 3 453.95.
GuidelineWave 2 retracement is proportionateRetraced 58% of Wave 1.
GuidelineWave 3 extension is plausibleWave 3 is 1.48× Wave 1.
Strategic degreeBearish A/B/C rebound may be completing

Strategic degree uses a 8.2% weekly closing-price reversal threshold.

Primary degreePossible Wave 3 advancing

Primary degree uses a 5.1% weekly closing-price reversal threshold.

Tactical degreePossible Wave 3 advancing

Tactical degree uses a 3.6% weekly closing-price reversal threshold.

Active swing 22.9%

19 weeks · Forming

Nearest confirmed support 369.50

Pivot from 2026-03-27

Nearest confirmed resistance -

Price is above prior confirmed highs

30-week trend 415.28

Price is 9.3% from trend

Fair Value reference 335.41

Price is 35.3% from Fair Value

52-week range position 98%

330.15 low · 455.95 high

Cycle timing

Are the main rhythms moving together?

Nominal cycles are starting bands, not fixed clocks. Each period adapts to the strongest nearby repeat in detrended weekly prices; projected turns are future intervals and require price confirmation.

Pressure phaseCresting

Current medium-term pressure direction

Multi-cycle alignmentFalling Stack

25/100 constructive · 75/100 risk

Nearest trough window7 weeks

Timing estimate, not a dated forecast

Nearest crest window20 weeks

Timing estimate, not a dated forecast

Cycle pressure

Above zero is positive pressure; direction matters more than the absolute number.

Multi-cycle rhythm

The thick line is the blended reading; thinner lines show 20, 40 and 80-week components.

Nominal / estimated10w / 8w
Current phaseFalling
Period evidence0/100
FLD confirmationCrossed Up
Since last trough1w
Future trough interval5–9w
Nominal / estimated20w / 25w
Current phaseCresting
Period evidence0/100
FLD confirmationCrossed Up
Since last trough18w
Future trough interval0–14w
Nominal / estimated40w / 50w
Current phaseCresting
Period evidence1/100
FLD confirmationCrossed Up
Since last trough16w
Future trough interval20–48w
Nominal / estimated80w / 100w
Current phaseRising
Period evidence37/100
FLD confirmationCrossed Up
Since last trough58w
Future trough interval27–57w
Confirmation

Does price behaviour support the wave count?

Each measure answers a different question. Agreement across several measures is more useful than one strong reading in isolation.

71% confirmation alignment
Trend

Price is holding above its 30-week trend.

9.3% above trend
Cycle pressure

The medium-term pressure curve is not rising.

Cresting
Cycle alignment

Several cycle lengths are weakening together.

Falling Stack
Relative strength

Outperforming its benchmark

+4.0
Market activity

Participation is supportive

+32.0
Market dynamics

Price and volume behaviour is supportive

+0.5
30-week momentum

Medium-term momentum is positive

+15.6
Combined reading Constructive

5 constructive, 2 weak and 0 neutral measures.

This is a count of rules-based evidence, not a recommendation.

Market activity

Whether participation is supporting the move.

Relative strength

Performance against the market benchmark.

30-week momentum

The pace of the medium-term price move.

Market dynamics

A separate scale prevents this lower-range measure being hidden by relative strength.

Risk and participation

How much movement sits behind the pattern?

Wave structure is easier to judge when drawdown, volatility and participation are visible beside it.

52-week low330.15
52-week high455.95
Annualised volatility16.8%

Based on the latest 26 weekly returns

Average weekly range1.4%

Average high-to-low range over 13 weeks

Current drawdown0.0%

From the highest close in the stored record

Latest volume191%

Of its trailing 20-week average

Drawdown history

Distance below the highest prior weekly close.

Realised volatility

Annualised variability of the latest 26 weekly returns.

Relative volume

Weekly volume as a percentage of its 20-week average.

Market, peer and event context

Is the structure isolated—or supported by its environment?

Peer breadth tests whether the sector is moving with this security. Event and options context tests whether a catalyst could overwhelm otherwise valid technical structure.

Sector breadth

54% constructive

13 of 24 analysed peers have a bullish rule-valid primary count.

33% have improving cycle stacks Breadth shows whether peers share the structure. Cohort outcomes use non-overlapping, point-in-time trend and momentum states from the same sector and report benchmark excess return when matching benchmark bars exist; they are context, not a backtest of the Elliott count.
Event collision

No near collision identified

No stored event or positioning warning currently conflicts with the count.

Event and positioning context tests whether a scheduled catalyst or the options-implied move could overwhelm the technical structure.
Peer-state horizonIndependent samplesPositiveMedianMedian excess vs ^SSMI10th–90th percentile
4 weeks69662%0.9%0.0%-6.5% to 6.5%
13 weeks24471%3.4%1.4%-11.5% to 17.5%
26 weeks13377%5.5%3.5%-16.9% to 26.3%
Historical context

What followed similar readings in this security?

Matches compare trend, cycle direction, momentum, relative strength and market dynamics using only information available at each historical week.

118 similar weekly states

Median forward return

Median outcome after each matching historical week.

4w
1.0%
13w
2.7%
26w
5.6%
HorizonMatchesPositiveMedianRange
4 weeks 117 54% 1.0% -10.8% to 12.7%
13 weeks 108 63% 2.7% -19.2% to 20.7%
26 weeks 99 70% 5.6% -18.6% to 24.1%

Overlapping historical matches are descriptive context, not independent observations or a forecast.

Evidence quality100/100

This measures usable history, indicator coverage and confirmed swing points. It does not measure the chance of the scenario succeeding.

Weekly history
100/100
Indicator coverage
100/100
Confirmed structure
100/100
Model ewc-2.1.0 · as of 2026-08-07 · only the final active pivot is provisional; confirmed pivots are retained.
How the count is built

Rules, references and limitations

  • Swing points use weekly closes and a 5.1% adaptive reversal threshold.
  • The final swing is provisional until the reversal threshold is met.
  • Candidate counts must pass the Wave 2 origin, Wave 3 progression/length and Wave 4 overlap rules when those waves are present.
  • Fibonacci proportions and alternation rank valid candidates but never rescue a hard-rule failure.
  • Primary and alternate evidence weights compare admissible counts; they are not probabilities.
  • Nominal Hurst periods adapt to observed weekly rhythm. Future windows include measured timing uncertainty and require FLD or price confirmation.
Audit trail

Recent swing points

The exact points used to construct the visible wave map.

DateStatusTypePriceMoveDuration
2024-01-19 Confirmed Low 281.35 -6.7% 3 weeks
2024-03-29 Confirmed High 313.40 11.4% 10 weeks
2024-04-19 Confirmed Low 286.95 -8.4% 3 weeks
2024-07-26 Confirmed High 331.40 15.5% 14 weeks
2024-08-09 Confirmed Low 306.15 -7.6% 2 weeks
2024-11-29 Confirmed High 361.95 18.2% 16 weeks
2025-04-11 Confirmed Low 268.10 -25.9% 19 weeks
2025-10-03 Confirmed High 373.25 39.2% 25 weeks
2025-11-21 Confirmed Low 345.30 -7.5% 7 weeks
2026-01-23 Confirmed High 402.55 16.6% 9 weeks
2026-03-27 Confirmed Low 369.50 -8.2% 9 weeks
2026-08-07 Forming High 453.95 22.9% 19 weeks

Evidence context