Quick-tips 7 | Differences between the divergence programs on this site

Divergence at Markplex.com

I am often asked about the differences between all the many TradeStation EasyLanguage divergence based tutorials and programs on this site. The following are some notes to explain some of the features of the various programs. I have also listed all the divergence related programs/tutorials and created a table that compares the features below.

Simple

In tutorial 4, the program searches for low pivots (valleys) in the stochastic and assumes the price pivots occur at the same time. Having found a stochastic pivot it uses the price values that occur on the same bar as the pivot. Of course, oscillator pivots and price pivots do not always (or often) occur on the same bar. This tutorial is very simple and represents a good place to start when learning about programming EasyLanguage. In the table below I indicated this programming construct as “Oscillator and price pivots can be on different bars.”

Intermediate

In tutorial 26 and all later programs and tutorials, the program looks for pivots in both price AND the oscillator. These pivots must occur within a user input number of bars of  each other to be considered ‘matching’ pivots.

More advanced

The major difference between program 27 and later programs and tutorial 26 is that program 27 stores previous pivot information in an array (i.e. it keeps a records of the last several pivots). Each time a new pivot pair is discovered, previous pivots are compared with it. Tutorial 26 only determines whether there is divergence between the most recent two pivot pairs.

There are many other differences, some which are highlighted in the table below. For example, program 62 is an indicator, whereas program 66 is a function (in TradeStation parlance, this is a program that has to be called from another program) although I include an example TradeStation showme study of how to call the program 66 function.

Tutorials which include divergence calculations

Tutorial 4 | Divergence between a stochastic indicator and price

Tutorial 26 | An improved stochastic - price divergence indicator

Tutorial 37 | A show me study to show divergence between price and stochastic

Tutorial 75 | Add a divergence component to the CCI trend line break program

Programs which include divergence calculations

Program 9 | A smoothed, low-lag Commodity Channel Index (CCI) indicator

Program 10 | An enhanced smoothed, low-lag CCI indicator

Program 11 | Enhanced smoothed, low-lag CCI indicator--EXTRA FEATURES

Program 18 | CCI divergence strategy (and smoothed CCI indicator)

Program 24 | CCI hidden or reverse divergence

Program 27 | MACD divergence for charts, scanner and RadarScreen

Program 28 | Stochastic divergence for charts, scanner and RadarScreen

Program 30 | True Strength Index (TSI) divergence

Program 42 | RSI Divergence Indicator and Showme Study

Program 60 | Stochastic of RSI smoothed plot and divergence

Program 62 | Stochastic, RSI, TSI, CCI, MACD, and stochastic RSI divergence

Program 66 | Flexible divergence function

Comparison of all the programs

Please let me know if you noticed any errors on this page or if you have further questions.