{
  "id": 2115,
  "rank": 2517,
  "name": "Gradient Divergence Trading",
  "aka": [
    "Gradient Divergence",
    "GD"
  ],
  "family": "B",
  "subtype": "B8",
  "one_liner": "Visual method using colored price bars to detect divergence between price action and momentum.",
  "market_regime": "any",
  "timeframes": [
    "5-minute",
    "1-minute"
  ],
  "symbols": [
    "ES",
    "NQ",
    "CL"
  ],
  "sessions": [
    "RTH (Regular Trading Hours)"
  ],
  "indicators": [
    {
      "name": "Gradient Divergence",
      "params": {},
      "applied_to": "close"
    }
  ],
  "entry_long": [
    "N/A"
  ],
  "entry_short": [
    "Price reaches key level AND makes new extreme",
    "Bar at new extreme shows visibly weaker color than prior extreme (15+ Stochastic points weaker minimum)",
    "Stochastic %D crossover below %K has occurred or is occurring"
  ],
  "exit_rules": [
    "Scale out: 50% at T1, move stop to breakeven, let runner work",
    "Hold runner as long as bar color stays in"
  ],
  "filters": [
    "news filter",
    "max spread 2.0 pips"
  ],
  "stop_loss": "1-2 ticks above the swing high of the divergence bar",
  "take_profit": "T1: Previous swing low or nearest volume node (Market Profile POC or HVN) — typically 8-16 ticks from entry on 5-minute ES",
  "position_size": "N/A",
  "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/2115-gradient-divergence-trading",
  "snapshot": "2026-10-31 15:46 UTC",
  "source_url": "https://nexusfi.com/a/strategies/gradient-divergence-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."
}