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There are two indicators available in the NinjaTrader Forum, which you will find below
- D3Spotter
- DivergenceSpotter
For me the problem would not be coding any such indicator, but what to do with it.
Divergence basically is a sort of first derivative, so it indicates a slowdown of price, when a new high or low is made. The danger with following divergences is that it lures you into early countertrades with a rather bad return-to-risk ratio. A triple divergence is a failed divergence, and this occurs frequently. Actually any trending move that leads into a longer congestion will produce a divergence, and usually congestions that follow trending moves are continuation patterns.
A three-push pattern usually produces a triple divergence, if it is a wedge. If the last high or low overshoots the opposite trendline to stop at one of the fibonacci ratios, you might take that trade without a prior trendline break.
Otherwise, I only use a signal that creates a divergence within a divergence, that means a smaller timeframe divergence within a larger timeframe divergence, if a clear trendline break in the larger timeframe has already occured.
etc. Then just draw the trendline, init it first then track the ID, and then extend it each bar the divergence continues. TL_New_self for tl's in panel 2, or if you want it on price panel just use TL_New.
I'm looking for one data series to make a HH and another to make a LH. I'd like the HH to be relatively close to the previous H, meaning the HH must be a consecutive peak. I don't want them to have smaller highs in between because that gets really complicated.
I started approaching it just from a pattern perspective. 3 bar pattern, 4 bars, 5 bars but it gets complicated cause there are different possibilities when you get to 5 for the bars in between.
I'm wondering if I should continue that or if there is a better way.
I don't really like the moving average approach, I want the divergence on the raw data and since it can be 3 bars I can't have any lag.
I agree entering based on a divergence is not a good idea. For me it's just another piece of the puzzle. Gives me a warm fuzzy.
I'll look at those indicators. now I feel stupid cause I searched the forum discussions but I didn't think of searching the file downloads. it'd be nice if the forum search did both.
I would suggest using Alexander ZigZag or similar, but there is always lag in detection of the formation of the new zigzag.
If you are looking for a breakout or breakdown of a prior HH or LL, you'll first have to have a working method for identifying those HH and LL's (ZigZag for instance, or your own).
also take a look at ninja candle finder indicator they use a strength value to filter out some weak divergence (weak trend).
ps. if you are in looking for some new idea here is one;
This review is for: Value in Time: Better Trading through Effective Volume (Wiley Trading) (Hardcover)
The author uses inexpensive off-the-shelf software to slice each trading day of a stock into one-minute segments. He finds the average one-minute volume for the day and separates the minutes into those with above or below average volume. In each group, he adds up the volume of minutes with rising prices and subtracts the volume of minutes with falling prices. This gives him two cumulative volume lines: one for the minutes with above average and the other for below average volume. He named them Large and Small Effective Volume.
The minutes with above average volume reflect the impact of the big money and often have predictive value. When you find a condition in which the big money starts pushing up a stock, while the small money remains negative or neutral, an upside reversal is in the cards. When the big money starts pushing the stock down while the small money is flat or buying, a downside reversal is more likely.
hi cunparis,
i also looked for a good diver-indie some weeks ago.
i found interesting + good working ones for MT4 but havent translated them - thats far below of my skills.
but what they show looks like a clear + sensemaking definition + calculation.
let me know if you are interested that i post / send you / the MT4 scripts to have a look at it.
I haven't seen MT4's code so i don't know what it looks like but if you have a few examples of the indicator on a chart that would help to see how it works and then I could look at the code to see if I can translate it to easylanguage or C#.
