No, you are getting confused. We need decreasing red then increasing red in order to form our r2r that ends at p2. We also need increasing red after p3 in order to confirm the p3 of the short traverse.
Remember what Spyder says about the 'rules' pointing to something, not being the thing itself. Those were just internal hiccups that happened to show up on the 5 minute bar because the waves of price movement didn't happen to correspond to it. The overall wave motion - advance, retrace, advance, was nevertheless there. - palinuro