⚠ Educational research only. This is one person's personal trading system, shared freely. Nothing here is financial advice — do your own research and never trade money you can't afford to lose.

I rebuilt a classic wave-theory tool, backtested it honestly, and I run these systems myself.

This is a research project, not a product. I took the classic Elliott Wave theory rule set (the textbook five-wave impulse rules), rebuilt it on hourly bars, validated the trade rules on ten years of data they were never tuned on, and now use the result as my own trading system. The scanner on this site is that same tool — same data, same counts, same signals I look at.

▶ Open the live scanner See the backtest numbers
79.5%out-of-sample win rate, core system*
4documented systems, each with examples
1Hhourly bars — updated as best I can
$0no paywall, no trial, no upsell
The short version of the whole project: markets seem to advance in five pushes and retrace in three; the fifth push usually runs out of fuel. I encode "the fifth push is done + a price trigger fired" into automatic scans, backtested what actually works, and dropped what doesn't. Three of the four systems below are validated out-of-sample; the fourth is honestly labeled as a watch list. The scanner runs on a small server, the data is free-tier Yahoo hourly bars — fresh, but not guaranteed real-time (the systems trade on completed hourly closes, so a small delay doesn't change the signals). If any of it helps you trade more carefully, that's the whole point.
Who I am: I've been trading for 30 years, writing software for 30 years, and for the last 20 of them I've worked as a software engineer building and maintaining the trading platforms that orders actually flow through. That combination is the whole reason this project exists: I only trust a signal as far as I can audit the code behind it — so I wrote that code myself, and I test it the way I'd test a production system. Everything on this site is the same system I run on my own account, which is also why the caveats sit right next to the results.

What's here

No signup, no paywall. Read in any order — ten minutes gets you the whole picture.

The theory, in 60 seconds

Five pushes, three retracements, and why the fifth wave is where the money question is.

Get started in 5 steps

The whole scanner workflow, top to bottom.

The four systems

What each one catches, its exact trade plan, and a side-by-side comparison.

Interactive demos

Press play and watch an exhaustion and a failed fifth form, step by step.

Anatomy of one trade

A real System 2 signal from setup to outcome — the same script every time.

The evidence

Out-of-sample numbers — and the caveats most sites hide.

Glossary

All the jargon, one line each.

FAQ

Fair questions, honest answers.

API for agents & devs

Plain JSON, no keys — point your AI agent straight at the scanner.

Comments

Bugs, features, hello — public or private, I read every one.