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MACD Hidden Divergence Trading Strategy

Oscillators like RSI, stochastics, and MACD are powerful tools if you know how to use them. Looking out for divergences is a part of using oscillators for trading. Divergence refers to the disagreement between price and the oscillator.
Classic divergences are part of a reversal trading strategy. Hidden divergences point to continuation trades. Take a look at the two types of bullish divergences illustrated below. (Bearish divergences are the reverse.)

Hidden Divergence

For our review, we will be using MACD, but the same trading strategy can work with any trading oscillator.

Trading Rules – MACD Hidden Divergence

Long Trading Strategy

  1. Bullish MACD hidden divergence
  2. Buy one tick above any bullish reversal bar

Short Trading Strategy

  1. Bearish MACD hidden divergence
  2. Sell one tick above any bearish reversal bar

MACD Hidden Divergence Trade Examples

Winning Example – Bullish Hidden Divergence

 This is a daily chart of the S&P exchange-traded fund, SPY, with the MACD histogram on the lower panel.
  1. There was a clear up trend leading up to our trading setup, which is crucial for continuation trades.
  2. To find hidden divergence, pay attention to the last low of MACD. Once MACD descends past it, you turn your attention to price. If price is above the last swing low, you have a hidden divergence. However, if price continues down below the last swing low, the hidden divergence becomes invalid.
  3. After the hidden divergence, we had a reversal bar that showed its strength as it turned into an outside bar. We entered a tick above its high for a nice swing upwards.

Review MACD Hidden Divergence

Divergence trading strategy requires you to pay attention not just to the indicator, but also to price itself. This is why it is a better way to use oscillators. We should never use trading indicators without consulting price.
Another advantage of hidden divergences is the higher odds of success, given that it finds trades along the trend and not against it.
Bullish hidden divergences highlight oversold regions in an up trend. However, instead of using a fixed oscillator value to decide if prices are oversold, we use the previous low of the oscillator. (The reverse is true for bearish divergence.)  This is definitely an improvement over the using fixed thresholds.
Despite having the help of the MACD histogram, we must emphasize that finding divergences is an art. The subjectivity lies with picking out significant lows and highs on both the oscillator and price. For better results, traders usually ignore minor swing lows and highs. However, in powerful trends, those minor swings could lead to explosive moves.
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