{
  "id": 11153,
  "rank": 331,
  "name": "MACD oscillator",
  "aka": [],
  "family": "B",
  "subtype": "B2",
  "one_liner": "Generate trading signals by comparing short-term and long-term moving averages of the close price.",
  "market_regime": "trending|ranging|volatile|breakout|any",
  "timeframes": [
    "any"
  ],
  "symbols": [
    "any"
  ],
  "sessions": [
    "any"
  ],
  "indicators": [
    {
      "name": "EMA",
      "params": {
        "period": 12
      },
      "applied_to": "close"
    },
    {
      "name": "EMA",
      "params": {
        "period": 26
      },
      "applied_to": "close"
    }
  ],
  "entry_long": [
    "short term EMA is above long term EMA"
  ],
  "entry_short": [
    "short term EMA is below long term EMA"
  ],
  "exit_rules": [
    "clear positions based on target stop loss or stop profit"
  ],
  "filters": [
    "not specified"
  ],
  "stop_loss": "not specified",
  "take_profit": "not specified",
  "position_size": "not specified",
  "evidence_type": "backtest_shown",
  "completeness": 50.0,
  "signal_warnings": null,
  "claim_warnings": null,
  "opacity_warnings": null,
  "build_warnings": null,
  "canonical": "https://prismaticalgos.com/compendium/algo/11153-macd-oscillator",
  "snapshot": "2026-10-31 15:46 UTC",
  "source_url": "https://github.com/Krexind/quant-trading",
  "limitations": "These are machine-extracted research records, not verified trading systems. Catalog rank measures specification detail and claimed evidence, not profitability. The catalog extraction pipeline did not independently backtest these records. Its separate selected testing ledger does not validate the wider corpus. Rules, labels and parameters can be incomplete or wrong; consult the original source and its reuse terms."
}