Applying Divergences with Hour time frame.

Satheesh's quest for knowledge should lead to some profitable trades....only with some patience and persistence..The trick will be to to take a step back and see the bigger picture. That is to see a daily chart and fit in the "hour" chart into it.
1. I credit lots of success to "EW study" but never in isolation. The success rate is good only because it is combined with TA.
2. "Divergences play" alone bring you the biggest riches time and again. The more pronounced they are, the more gains they get you. And when these divergences coincide with a "perceived completion of EW ", the conviction level in a trader goes high to hold on to that trade.
The two lows 4766(3rd wave) and 4675(5th wave) coincided with a clearly pronounced positive divergence and the result has been extraordinary.
Subsequent to that we have had one -ve div but that happened just after a steep rise and the oscillators showed -ve div but it is to "time adjust" the steepness in prices.
Currently a negative div. is developing but there is some "doubts" in the EW count. The strength in bank Nifty & certain stocks may cushion any falls. This one would test one's patience and one should remember the main trend and its trending up within the channel.
3. Macd defines the "Moving average convergence and divergence". One of the potent steep move indications has often come from watching the short term moving averge converging towards a medium term average (Here we have taken 35hour/ 5-day & 70 Hour/10-day sma) and then start to turn away slowly without touching or just touching the medium term average and thus setting up a "fast rise" scenario.This set up often concludes the "corrective or sideways" scenario and commencement of the next up move.
4. For the trend followers, a continuation of Higher high(HH) and Higher Low (HL) will indicate the continuation of trend and they can simple hold on to their position till this set up changes to LH & LL.

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Positive Divergences galore..!!(Hour)

(A short term upside possibility)
Nifty has been falling from 5309 for the past 20 days without a meaningful rally or rest. Positive divergences have started showing in some individual stocks as well as the two major indices - Nifty & Bank Nifty. Some stocks have already shown sharp bounce off their lows.
What is in store..? More immediate lows possible..?? When is a confirmation of a "Pause" is known..?? How's the risk-reward status now..?
A short term long play is possible.
If Nifty is resisted @ 4790 - 4815-4835, another low or closer to the lows is possible before the reversal sets in. A mid series rally for a few days..!!
A close above the 5 day ema would be the first confirmation of that pause.
Risk-reward will be to the Bulls favour if a dip comes on Monday afternoon or Tuesday morning.
Remember larger trend is down-Month, Week and Day. Day is oversold without any positive divergence.
Only a positive divergence in Hourly time frame which can last for a few days. Volume action during this expected rally will confirm a reversal in daily.
Stop Loss may be kept below 200sma @ 4640 or 4615 for the short term Longs.

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How to combine EW with macd

Illustrated here with "IOC" & "Nifty" chart:-
(I have chosen IOC as it is not manipulated, nevertheless widely traded in its sector)
1. When the down trend is nearing its "oversold" &" public apathy" & "Panic" situation, you will notice a +ve div in the down move's 4th & 5th wave down OR in "b" & "c" down OR in "c4" & "c5", there by identifying the start of the 1 st wave.
2. First wave generally gets exhausted with the macd moving into +ve area and this can be fine tuned with the help of hour charts. In underperformers, macd may find it difficult to get into positive territory but moves closer to "0".
3. In the Second wave, macd moves back into negative once again. In outperformers, macd may stay above "0" but moves down closer to "0".
4. Third wave upmove takes macd strongly up to the extreme upsides. Then. in outperformers the macd may move down with prices continuing to move up and as the macd moves up again, prices move much higher. This is where the "novice" investors/ traders read the direction of the macd with prices quite literally and miss a huge upmove..Exhaustion in this uptrend can be gauged from the "gaps", "volume" as well as following the 3rd wave subdivisions in the "hourly charts".
5. Fourth wave moves become triangles to carry out time correction if the third wave was very steep and swift Or an alternation to the second wave(if 2nd is flat, then the 4th is zigzag and vice versa). In underperformers, the macd moves into negative while in outperformers it stays above "0" but comes well off its high reading to set itself for a negative divergence base.
6. Fifth wave or the "froth" or the "speculative move" will bring in mostly the retailers with a herd kind of move to new highs while the macd making a lower high thereby developing a negative divergence. In a strongly trending markets, the 5th wave gets extended with series of negative divergences frustrating the bears and confounding the bulls and the falls happen with a sudden reversal when complacency sets into bulls.
7. During the reversal, the first wave down takes the macd into negative territory and the second wave up into positive and the cycle repeats itself in the opposite direction.

Sounds simple..But as you watch the prices move on your monitor, you generally tend to forget all your lessons. Best EW practioners have "military discipline" in them..those who mean business ...be it in any phase/ aspect of life.
When a trading competition was held in the USA for EW practitioners, most of the toppers had military background which gave them the edge over others in carrying out the commands without questioning.
All the EW followers will admit that the most difficult part of EW practice is "to believe in what one sees" . Correct labeling of the charts once the moves are over for posterity is easy . Needless to say here that "you are right only when you make money" and that is "act when you should without questioning".

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