{
  "id": 439,
  "rank": 118,
  "name": "MACD Oscillator",
  "aka": [],
  "family": "A",
  "subtype": "A4",
  "one_liner": "Momentum trading strategy using short and long term moving averages of close prices.",
  "market_regime": "trending|ranging|volatile",
  "timeframes": [
    "D1"
  ],
  "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": [
    "no explicit exit rules given"
  ],
  "filters": [
    "no filters mentioned"
  ],
  "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": [
    "DAILY_LOW_COUNT: daily-or-slower timeframe on a single instrument. Expect well under 100 trades in five years, so a backtest will rarely reach statistical significance on its own."
  ],
  "canonical": "https://prismaticalgos.com/compendium/algo/439-macd-oscillator",
  "snapshot": "2026-10-31 15:46 UTC",
  "source_url": "https://github.com/je-suis-tm/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."
}