Program 66 | Flexible divergence function

Function to provide divergence information to strategies (and other programs)

Program 66 is a TradeStation EasyLanguage function designed to be ‘called’ by other TradeStation programs (strategies, indicators, show me studies, paintbar studies etc) to provide information about whether a price/oscillator divergence has occurred. The functionality is based on that found in Program 62 | Stochastic, RSI, TSI, CCI, MACD, and stochastic RSI.

N.B. Although the algorithms and the same in program 66 and program 62, this function does not draw the divergence lines that are drawn by program 62. In order to use the program it needs to be called by another program. I have included a simple demonstration program that calls the function with the download.

Program 66 is a TradeStation function developed using EasyLanguage designed to look for potential divergences between price and one of the following oscillators:

• Stochastic
• Relative Strength Index (RSI)
• True Strength Index (TSI)
• Commodity Channel Index (CCI)
• Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD)
• Stochastic of RSI

Descriptions for these oscillators can be found on the program 62 program page.

The function, written for TradeStation 9.5 and higher, works with volume, second, tick, kagi, Kase, line break, momentum, point and figure, range, renko charts.

The UNPROTECTED function (i.e. the TradeStation EasyLanguage is fully functional and you can see the source code) and associated unprotected test showme study are available for IMMEDIATE download for $175- by clicking the ‘add to cart’ button. After download the programs can be opened, you will be able to see the program code and modify it if you wish.

The bonus show me study demonstrates the use of the function.

After purchase you will be redirected to a download page, so don’t close the browser.

The download ELD includes two programs:

• a function called _Program66
• a demonstration showme study called _Program66TEST

Note that both program names begin with an underscore, so they should be towards the start of the list if you sort alpabetically.

If you are a Gold Pass member make sure you enter the special coupon code to get 20% discount off this price.

Calling the function

The function has many inputs to determine whether it uses a specific oscillator and which option to use within the oscillator as follows:

The inputs look complicated, but once a specific oscillator is selected using the WhichOsc input, only the inputs for that oscillator are relevant. This is demonstrated in the following image.

oDivergenceOut returns +1 when a bullish divergence occurs, -1 when a bearish divergence occurs, otherwise it returns 0. The function itself returns the number of bars ago that the divergence occurred.

Calling the function

Using named inputs

Using numbers

The values that the function returns are used, as follows, in the example show me study:

Inputs

Note: inputs for a specific oscillator only take effect is that oscillator is selected using the WhichOsc input.

The word before the input name is the data type as follows:

• int = integer (i.e. 0, 1, 2, 3 )
• double = double(i.e. 2.34236)

After the input names is a brief explanation of their use. The ‘//’ tells the program that the words are comments and they do not affect the running of the program.

The number contained within parentheses is the default value for the user input. This means that the program will run with this value unless you change it.

Input values

int MaxArraySize( 3 ), // Maximum = 5. Determines how many previous pivots are compared each time a new price pivot and corresponding oscillator pivot are discovered
int WhichOsc( 1 ), // Determines which oscillator the program uses to test for divergence

// Pivot inputs
int LeftStrength( 3 ), // Left strength of pivots
int RightStrength( 2 ), // Right strength of pivots
int BarTol( 3 ), // The number of bars within which the price and oscillator pivot must occur for the pivots to be considered to have occurred on the same bar.

Since price and the oscillator pivots do not necessarily occur on exactly the same bar, the program users the BarTol input to determine how many bars apart the price pivot and the stochastic pivot can occur to still be considered a price/oscillator pivot pair. The price pivot can occur before the oscillator pivot, or vice versa.

// Stochastic inputs
double StochPriceH( High ), // Input to stochastic calculation and price used to find high pivots
double StochPriceL( Low ), // Input to stochastic calculation and price used to find low pivots
double StochPriceC( Close ), // Input to stochastic calculation
int StochLength( 14 ), // Input to stochastic calculation
int StochLength1( 3 ), // Used to slow FastK to FastD = SlowK
int StochLength2( 3 ), // Used to slow FastD to SlowD
int StochSmoothType( 1 ), // StochSmoothType = 1 for Original, StochSmoothType = 2 for Legacy }

// MACD inputs
double MACDPrice( Close ), // Input to MACD
int MACDLength( 9 ), // Input to MACD
int MACDFastLength( 16 ), // Input to MACD
int MACDSlowLength( 26 ), // Input to MACD

// TSI inputs
double TSIPrice( Close ), // Input to True Strength Index calculation
int TSIPeriod1( 25 ), // Input to True Strength Index calculation
int TSIPeriod2( 13 ), // Input to True Strength Index calculation
int TSIPeriod3( 5 ), // Input to True Strength Index calculation

// RSI inputs
double RSIPrice( Close ), // Used in RSI calculation
int RSILength1( 10 ), // Used in RSI calculation
int RSILength2( 5 ), // Used in Exponential moving average of RSI calculation

// CCI inputs
int CCILength( 14 ), // CCI length
int CCIFastLength( 6 ), // Length of ‘fast’ CCI
int CCISmoothLength( 14 ), // Factor used to smooth CCI
int FastCCISmoothLength( 14 ), // Factor used to smooth fast CCI

// Stochastic of RSI
double SRSIPrice( Close ), // Price input to SRSI calculation
double SRSIPrice( Close ), // Price used in RSI calculation
int SRLength( 14 ), // Length used in the RSI calculation
int SRSICCISmoothLength( 5 ); // Smoothing length used to smooth the stochastic of the RSI

Program download

Program 66 was developed for TradeStation 9.5.

The UNPROTECTED function (i.e. the TradeStation EasyLanguage is fully functional and you can see the source code) and associated unprotected test showme study are available for IMMEDIATE download for $175- by clicking the ‘add to cart’ button. After download the programs can be opened, you will be able to see the program code and modify it if you wish.

The bonus show me study demonstrates the use of the function.

After purchase you will be redirected to a download page, so don’t close the browser.

The download ELD includes two programs:

• a function called _Program66
• a demonstration showme study called _Program66TEST

Note that both program names begin with an underscore, so they should be towards the start of the list.

If you are a Gold Pass member make sure you enter the special coupon code to get 20% discount off this price.

 Video demonstration of program 66

Please note that any screen shots on this site are examples and are not meant to imply that any of these programs will generate profitable trades.

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