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# Awesome Oscillator

## Description

Owesome oscillator is an another kind of Moving average convergence/divergence indicator just with predefined input parameters. AO calculates the difference beetwen 34 period SMA and 5 period SMA smothed with 5 period mooving average.

![](https://1239679454-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LYX3ccu0Q61og0sdCbP%2F-Lt4f5XUyWUbILd7oY_y%2F-Lt4f9WteiIDv04B7_O-%2Fimage%20\(10\).png?generation=1573126975634960\&alt=media)

## Formula

5 period SMA - 34 period SMA

## Most useful cases

* **Divergence/Convergence** - Divergence/Convergence pattern is a form of price action when new high(low) of the price not confirmed with a new high/low of  AO. Such price and indicator’s behavior can be interpreted as the weakness of current existing trend.

![](https://1239679454-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LYX3ccu0Q61og0sdCbP%2F-Lt4f5XUyWUbILd7oY_y%2F-Lt4f9Wv4yl1Ir0HM9i5%2Fimage%20\(22\).png?generation=1573126975518815\&alt=media)

* **Crossing zero line** - this is a trend reversing signal and it can be very useful in case of determining a correction of existing trend, beginning of a new trend wave or starting a new trend.