{
  "id": 431,
  "rank": 1948,
  "name": "Polar Bear MACD Divergence",
  "aka": [
    "Polar Bear MACD Divergence"
  ],
  "family": "C",
  "subtype": "C2",
  "one_liner": "Identifies classic and hidden MACD divergences for high-probability reversals with adjustable stop loss and take profit.",
  "market_regime": "trending|corrective",
  "timeframes": [
    "1H"
  ],
  "symbols": [
    "EURUSD"
  ],
  "sessions": [
    "null"
  ],
  "indicators": [
    {
      "name": "MACD",
      "params": {
        "fast_ema": 12,
        "slow_ema": 26,
        "signal_line": 9
      },
      "applied_to": "close"
    }
  ],
  "entry_long": [
    "Bullish Divergence: Price makes lower lows, but MACD shows higher lows"
  ],
  "entry_short": [
    "Bearish Divergence: Price makes higher highs, but MACD shows lower highs"
  ],
  "exit_rules": [
    "Fixed Stop Loss & Take Profit (30 pips default)"
  ],
  "filters": [
    "null"
  ],
  "stop_loss": "30 pips",
  "take_profit": "30 pips",
  "position_size": "Base Lot Size (Lots) with optional Martingale (Lots_Multiplier = 2.0)",
  "evidence_type": "source_code",
  "completeness": 50.0,
  "signal_warnings": null,
  "claim_warnings": [
    "RECOVERY SIZING: position size increases after losses (martingale/grid/averaging). Equity curves look smooth until the run that does not recover - judge it on worst-case exposure, not win rate."
  ],
  "opacity_warnings": null,
  "build_warnings": null,
  "canonical": "https://prismaticalgos.com/compendium/algo/431-polar-bear-macd-divergence",
  "snapshot": "2026-10-31 15:46 UTC",
  "source_url": "https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/146391",
  "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."
}
