Regular vs hidden divergences | Crypto Divergences

Regular bullish and bearish divergence diagrams — Regular divergence: price and momentum disagree at the extreme. That is the reversal setup most people mean by “divergence.”

A divergence is not a candle pattern. It is a disagreement between price structure and an oscillator. The desk stores that as pair, side, timeframe, and — when we can parse it — oscillator and regular vs hidden.

Regular (reversal)

Bullish regular: price prints a lower low, the oscillator prints a higher low. Selling pressure is still making new price lows, but momentum is not confirming. The tagged side on the desk is Long.

Bearish regular: price higher high, oscillator lower high. The tagged side is Short.

Chart example of bullish divergence on crypto futures — Real futures charts, not mockups — bullish on the left, bearish on the right. Confirm on the pair page TradingView widget before you treat either as an entry.

Chart example of bearish divergence on crypto futures — Real futures charts, not mockups — bullish on the left, bearish on the right. Confirm on the pair page TradingView widget before you treat either as an entry.

Hidden (continuation)

Hidden divergence shows up with the trend. In an uptrend, price makes a higher low while RSI or MACD makes a lower low. Momentum dipped; price did not give back the structure. Traders read that as a continuation long, not a bottom call.

Hidden bullish divergence: price higher low, oscillator lower low — Hidden bullish: higher low in price, lower low in the oscillator, inside an uptrend.

The mechanical scanner labels regular vs hidden from pivot geometry. Desk rows only get a kind when the text (or the scanner) is explicit. Filter the feed with kind=regular or kind=hidden on /signals.

Untagged rows are older or text-only prints. Hidden is a smaller sample — do not over-read a two-point gap.

Related reading on this site: Understanding market divergences and the closed-candle scanner.