RULES FOR TRADING DIVERGENCES IN FOREX TRADING

There are nine cool rules for trading divergences. Learn ’em, apply ’em, and make money. Ignore them and go broke.

1.

Don’t even bother looking at an indicator unless ONE of these four price scenarios have occurred. If not, you ain’t trading divergence buddy. You just imagining things. Immediately go see your optometrist and get some new glasses.

2.

Okay now that you got some action (recent price action that is), look at it. Remember, you”ll only see one of four things: a higher high, a flat high, a lower low, or a flat low. Now draw a line backward from that high or low to the previous high or low. It HAS to be on successive major tops/bottom. If you see any little bumps or dips between the two major highs/lows, do what you do when your significant other shouts at you – ignore it.

3.

Once you see two swing highs are established, you connect the TOPS. If two lows are made, you connect the BOTTOMS. Don’t make the mistake of trying to draw a line at the bottom when you see two higher highs. It sounds dumb but peeps regularly get confused.

4.

So you’ve connected either two tops or two bottoms with a trendline. Now look at your preferred indicator and compare it to price action. Whichever indicator you use, remember you are comparing its TOPS or BOTTOMS. Some indicators such as MACD or Stochastic have multiple lines all up on each other like teenagers with raging hormones. Don’t worry about what these kids are doing.

5.

If you drew line connecting two highs on price, you MUST draw a line connecting the two highs on the indicator as well. Ditto for lows also. If you drew a line connecting two lows on price, you MUST draw a line connecting two lows on the indicator. They have to match!

6.

The highs or lows you identify on the indicator MUST be the ones that line up VERTICALLY with the price highs or lows.

7.

Divergence only exists if the SLOPE of the line connecting the indicator tops/bottoms DIFFERS from the SLOPE of the line connection price tops/bottoms. The slope must either be: Ascending (rising) Descending (falling) Flat (flat)

8.

If you spot divergence but price has already reversed and moved in one direction for some time, the divergence should be considered played out. You missed the boat this time. All you can do now is wait for another swing high/low to form and start your divergence search over.

9.

Divergences on longer timeframes are more accurate. You get less false signals. You will also get less trades but your profit potential is huge. Divergences on shorter timeframes will occur more frequently but are less reliable. I personally only look for divergences on 1-hour charts or longer. Other traders use 15-minute charts or even faster. On those timeframes, there’s just too much noise for my taste so I just stay away.

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Type	Bias	Price	Oscillator	Description	Example
	Bullish	Lower Low	Higher Low	Indicates underlying strength. Bears are exhausted. Warning of possible trend direction change from down to up.
	Bearish	Higher High	Lower High	Indicates underlying weakness. Bulls are exhausted. Warning of possible trend direction change from up to down.
	Bullish	Higher Low	Lower Low	Indicates underlying strength. Good entry or re-entry. Occurs during retracements in an uptrend. Nice to see during price retest of previous lows. “Buy the dips”
	Bearish	Lower High	Higher High	Indicates underlying weakness. Found during retracements in a downtrend. Nice to see during price retests of previous highs. “Sell the rallies”