Divergence Trader Strategies

Divergence Trader Strategies is one of the trade setups used by Oil traders. It involves looking at a oil chart and one more oil indicator. For our examples we shall use the MACD indicator.

To spot this divergence trader strategies find two chart points at which crude oil price makes a new swing high or a new swing low but the MACD indicator does not, indicating a divergence between crude oil price & momentum.

To look for Divergence trader strategies we look for two chart points, two highs that form an M-shape on the Crude Oil Trading chart or two lows that form a W-Shape on the Oil Trading chart. Then look for the same M-shape or W-Shape on the Oil Trading indicator you use to trade.

Example of a Oil Trading Divergence Trade Strategies:

In the Oil Trading chart below we identify two chart points, point A & point B (swing highs). These two points form an M-shape on the crude oil price chart.

Then using MACD technical indicator we check the highs made by the MACD, these are the highs that are directly below the Chart points A and B.

We then draw one line on the Crude Oil Trading chart & another line on the MACD technical indicator.

Drawing Divergence Oil Trading Lines - Divergence trader strategies

The Crude Oil chart above shows an example of one of the 4 types of divergence trader strategies, the one above is known as hidden bearish divergence strategy, one of the best type to trade.

How to spot divergence trader strategies

In order to spot Oil Divergence trader strategies we look for the following:

• HH=Higher High- two highs but the last one is higher
• LH= Lower High- 2 highs but the last one is lower
• HL=Higher Low- 2 lows but the last one is higher
• LL= Lower Low- 2 lows but the last one is lower

First let us look at the illustrations of these divergence setup trading terms:

M-shapes dealing with Crude Oil price Highs

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W Shapes dealing with Oil price lows

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Example of M Shapes

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Examples of W Shapes

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Now that you have learned the Divergence trader strategies terms which are used to explain trading setup. Let us look at the 2 types of Oil Trading divergences & how to trade these divergence trader strategies setups.

There two types are:

1. Classic divergence trader strategies

2. Hidden divergence trader strategies

These 2 setups are the most oftenly used divergence trader strategies & these are described on the oil strategies section of this site.