Quick Start

This page gets you to a correct first reading in roughly fifteen minutes. The goal is not to configure the tool — it is to make sure the defaults make sense to you before you start moving anything.

If you are new to RSI, this is not the page that fixes that gap. Spend a session with a single-timeframe RSI on a single chart first. The CTX trim assumes RSI is already familiar and that what you need is multi-timeframe and multi-source context, not an introduction.

Before you add the indicator

Decide one thing first: what timeframe are you actually going to be working on while you have this open?

This matters because every slot in the script is constrained to a timeframe greater than or equal to your chart timeframe. If you put the chart on 1H and try to read a 15m slot, the script will refuse and throw a runtime error naming the slot. That is a deliberate guard, not a bug — TradingView cannot honestly serve a higher-resolution series down into a lower-resolution chart bar without making things up. So pick the chart timeframe you will use to operate, and read up from there.

For the rest of this page, assume a 1-minute chart so the defaults all draw.

Add it and let it draw

1. Open a chart and confirm it is on a low enough timeframe that the default slots can compute. The shipped slots are 5m, 15m, and 60m.

2. Search for Axiom RSI Osc CTX in the Indicators dialog and add it.

3. Look at the new pane below your chart. You should see:

• Three colored slot lines — usually labelled around RSI 01, RSI 02, RSI 03.

• A lime-or-red blended RSI line plus a gray blended signal line, with a soft tinted fill between them.

• Five horizontal reference lines: a hard upper bound at 100, the overbought guide near 70, a midline at 50, the oversold guide near 30, and a hard lower bound at 0.

1. Two more series exist that do not draw on the pane: Active Bullish Count and Active Bearish Count. They are visible in TradingView's Data Window and are usable in alerts. Open the Data Window if you want to confirm they are present.

If any of those are missing, jump to Troubleshooting.

The first sanity check

Before you tune anything, confirm three things on your own chart. Every one of them is a property the script is actively enforcing — if one fails, something real is wrong, not just unfamiliar. These are the checks that let you trust the rest of what the manual says.

Check 1: every line is inside 0 and 100. Scroll back across at least one trading session. No slot line should ever poke above 100 or below 0. The blended RSI and the blended signal should not either. If they ever do, treat that as a defect worth reporting — not as noise to dismiss. The script clamps every plotted line on purpose, and a violation means something has gone wrong in the build, not in your read. A separate and important nuance: a line pinned at exactly 0 or exactly 100 is the clamp boundary being hit, not an extreme measurement — the pane is telling you "at or beyond the frame," not "the most extreme value possible." The two look similar and mean different things.

Check 2: the blended pair tracks the middle of the slots. With the defaults — three slots, equal weight — the blended RSI should sit somewhere inside the spread of the three slot lines, not above all of them or below all of them. If you see the blend riding outside the range of the slots, double-check that one slot has not been hidden, that you have not silently set a weight to a strange value, and that the chart timeframe is below or equal to all three slot timeframes. A blend that sits cleanly above or below every slot simultaneously is mathematically hard to produce with a weighted average — it usually means one slot is NA during warm-up and the remaining slots are all on the same side of it, or the weights are doing something you did not mean.

Check 3: the higher-timeframe slots wait for their bars. On a 1m chart, watch the 60m slot for a few minutes. With the default On Bar Close? flag set to true, that slot updates when its 60-minute bar closes — not on every chart bar. The 5m slot will update every five minutes, the 15m every fifteen. If your slots are updating every chart bar, you have turned On Bar Close? off somewhere; see MTF and Repainting before you decide whether you wanted that. The rhythm of updates is its own diagnostic — once you have spent a few minutes watching the 60m slot hold still while the 5m ticks along, the repaint framing stops being abstract.

If those three checks pass, the instrument is calibrated. The rest is configuration.

Three early traps that make new readers think the tool is broken

These are the moments people send support emails, then realize the answer was a setting interacting with another setting.

Trap 1: the pane goes blank. If you turn off all three default slots, the default slot lines disappear. If you set every enabled slot's weight to zero, the slot lines can still draw, but the blend goes NA because there are no blend contributors. This is the script doing what you told it to do. Re-enable at least one slot with a non-zero weight if you want the blend back.

Trap 2: a slot line freezes for hours. If you load an optional ticker that follows a different session calendar (for example, a futures slot while your chart is on an equity), the slot will look stuck during the chart's hours. It is not stuck — it is waiting for its own market to be open. This is expected for cross-asset slots and is covered on MTF and Repainting.

Trap 3: the runtime error names a slot. If you set a slot timeframe lower than your chart timeframe — for example, slot 02 set to 5m while your chart is on 15m — the script raises a runtime error and prints the offending slot. Fix it by raising that slot to a value greater than or equal to your chart timeframe. The error message points you at the slot on purpose so you do not have to hunt.

Read the pane the way it is meant to be read

The defaults give you a multi-timeframe RSI stack on the charted symbol. On your first sessions, spend more time watching than concluding. The instrument has a rhythm and a personality — the longer slot drags the shorter slots, the blend trails behind the lightest slot, the warm-up fallback paints the first minute oddly — and learning that rhythm is what makes the readings later feel earned rather than guessed at.

A few things to notice deliberately as you watch:

• The slot lines drift in roughly the same direction most of the time, because they are RSIs on overlapping windows of the same price path. Alignment is the normal state, not a signal. Disagreement between the slots is the more interesting information.

• The blended pair tracks the middle of those drifts. If it doesn't, one slot is dominating and that is worth understanding before you draw conclusions.

• Lime and red on the blend tell you whether the blended RSI is above or below its blended signal — nothing more. A lime blend at 38 and a lime blend at 68 are two very different reads; the color alone does not tell you which.

• The midline at 50, and the overbought and oversold guides, are visual references to help you locate where the values are. They are not triggers and they do not fire alerts. Their job is to orient your eye.

What you should not do in the first sessions:

• Treat alignment of the three default slots as "three timeframes confirming the same thing." It is one symbol viewed through three overlapping windows. The slots agree by construction more often than they disagree, and the alignment itself carries less information than the rarer moments of disagreement.

• Trade the first lime-to-red flip you see on the blend without looking at the slot plots underneath it. The blend can flip because one slot moved, not because the read genuinely changed. First-bar-after-a-flip is the noisiest possible moment to act on the color.

• Push master smoothing on. Leave it off for the first few sessions so you build an expectation of how the raw blend behaves before you start smoothing on top of it. A reader who turns master smoothing on before they know what the unsmoothed blend looks like will not be able to tell, later, whether a calm moment is coming from the market or from the smoothing window.

What to do once the defaults make sense

When the calibration checks pass and you have spent a session reading the defaults, you have three reasonable next moves depending on what you are trying to do.

• If you want to widen the workbench and add more timeframes or a context slot, go to Settings. Read the "shape of a slot" section first; you only need to learn it once.

• If you want to add an index or sector slot for cross-asset context, go to Workflows and read the cross-asset workflow before configuring anything. The category-error warning there is not optional.

• If you want to wire alerts, go to Alerts. The alerts here are state alerts on confirmed bars, not edge-triggered cross alerts. The difference matters before you create them, not after.

If at any point the pane stops looking the way you expected, Troubleshooting maps symptoms to causes.