Quote from yoohoo:
Willl, your indicator set up is as developed as an 18th century hospital operating theatre... except they had better tools LOL.
Seriously though, you will need to put more effort into building an indicator set-up than you put into learning PA. Your PA has to be red hot because only then will you be able to see how and where indicators enhance PA.
An indicator is like a surgical instrument - good at a particular role and inadequate the rest of the time... that's why one indicator alone is one big, big mistake. You need to discover the strength and weakness of an indicator and how it works with your perception and this can only be achieved in multiple TF's. Trying to make any one indicator do all on one TF is a common mistake.
As I said before your choice of a second indicator must be different in it's mathematical basis. However I have to emphasise the need to build with caution. If you don't get your PA chops together first building indicator set ups will prove futile.
So the short answer: don't wait for divergence - you should have played two moves using PA before the divergence shows. Divergence just shows the energy potential but you can get a 2nd divergence following - this is where bigger TF's solve the mystery of such signals.
I could delete my indicators and trade PA alone... or I could delete price and just trade using indicators and unlike Woodie mine work. But when the two are combined they enhance each other.
Many assume everything lags price so price is king alone. Then they draw a TL and project into the future not realising what they have just done... used as indicator based on past PA that projects future S&R. There are many mathematical relationships that project into the future - like when I demonstrated how to use a "lagging" moving average to project future S&R.
Indicators take advantage of mathematical relationships but very few have the wherewithall to discover what they can reveal. It's a journey, and it starts with excellent PA.
Can't post a chart now, got derailed with some customs bs so no time. We leave on the tides. I wanted to say ,before I forget, you guys should print yoohoo's post, get it blown up, frame it and put it on the wall above your monitors. It will be awhile before it sinks in but this is the recipie for the elevation of descretionary trading into the artform it is at the top of the game. Think of a school of fish , 100's or 1000's of them that all turn at once, not one left going the wrong direction, how do they do that?

