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# ActionWave

The [ActionWave](/main-toolkits/market-waves-pro-tm/actionwave.md) filter smooths price behavior into macro pulses, highlighting bullish or bearish flow and surfacing retest opportunities. In the screener, this translates into quick reads: is the market aligned with trend, or testing exhaustion?

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### Bullish and bearish ActionWave phases

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Bullish Phase" %}

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{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Bearish Phase" %}

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{% endtab %}
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#### Retest detection within user-defined steps <a href="#retest-detection-within-user-defined-steps" id="retest-detection-within-user-defined-steps"></a>

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{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Bullish Retest" %}

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{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Bearish Retest" %}

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