Settings

Axiom CVD Osc Lite gives you real room to shape the stack, which is exactly why the settings need to be changed in the right order. The point of this page is not to encourage touching every knob. It is to help you make changes that stay readable under pressure. One change you can verify is worth more than five changes that only make the pane feel sophisticated. That sequencing matters because the stack can become visually convincing long before it becomes explainable. We want the settings to build ownership, not borrowed confidence.

Use the controls in this order:

1. decide whether the slot should exist at all
2. choose the slot timeframe and sampling geometry
3. choose how the slot defines its active window
4. choose how fast or slow the slot should behave
5. decide whether that slot belongs in the blend
6. only then change the stack-wide trust and smoothing choices

That order matters because the early settings decide what kind of object the slot is. The later settings only make sense after that foundation is sound.

Start with the repeated slot model

Slots CVD 01 through CVD 03 share the same main control pattern.

Out of the box:

• all 3 slots are enabled
• their default TimeFrame: values are 5, 15, and 60
• their default Lower TF Precision: values are 1, 1, and 5
• all 3 slots start in Session mode with a D window
• all 3 slots use CVD Length: 3, CVD Type: SMA, Signal Length: 3, and Signal Type: SMA
• all 3 slots start with Blended Weight: 33.3
• all 3 slots start with Pressure Sensitivity: 1.50 and Wick Weight: 0.20

That makes the default experience a repeated three-layer CVD stack, not a universal preset.

The shortest safe way to use this page

If you are still learning the indicator:

• touch Enable, TimeFrame:, Lower TF Precision:, Window Mode:, Window:, and Blended Weight: first
• leave Optional Ticker: alone until the same-symbol stack already makes sense
• leave Pressure Sensitivity: and Wick Weight: near defaults until you have a clean mental model for one slot
• keep On Bar Close? enabled while you are learning how the stack behaves
• verify one change on the chart before making the next one

That sequence protects you from one of the common failure modes of flexible tools: the pane starts looking advanced before the workflow starts making sense.

Core slot controls

Control: What it changes; When to touch it; Common mistake

• Enable CVD 0X — Turns a slot on or off — Add or remove a layer from the stack — Enabling extra slots before you know what job each one has
• Hide CVD 0X Plot — Hides the slot line without disabling the slot — Reduce clutter while keeping the slot active — Forgetting that hidden does not mean inactive
• TimeFrame: — Chooses the slot timeframe — Build a short, medium, and slower ladder — Leaving an enabled slot below the chart timeframe and triggering a runtime error
• Lower TF Precision: — Chooses the lower-timeframe sampler used for participation estimation — Increase or relax intrabar sampling detail — Setting it equal to or above the slot timeframe
• Window Mode: — Chooses between an anchored session read and a rolling read — Decide whether the slot should reset or slide — Changing it without checking how the trust story changes
• Window: — Chooses the reset anchor or rolling duration — Match the slot to the decision horizon — Making the window smaller than the slot timeframe
• CVD Length: and CVD Type: — Control how the normalized slot CVD is smoothed — Make the main slot line faster or calmer — Treating smoother as automatically better
• Signal Length: and Signal Type: — Control how the slot signal line is smoothed — Change how quickly regime flips appear — Speeding it up until the line only looks smarter in hindsight
• Pressure Sensitivity: — Changes how decisively the slot classifies participation — Make the estimate more or less willing to call stronger pressure — Reading decisiveness as objectivity
• Wick Weight: — Changes how much wick imbalance affects participation buckets — Give more or less influence to rejection behavior — Raising it until wick behavior overwhelms the rest of the bar context
• Blended Weight: — Decides how much the slot matters inside the blend — Emphasize or mute a slot in the summary — Forgetting that zero weight does not disable the slot
• Optional Ticker: — Requests the slot from another symbol — Add outside-market context — Treating the result like direct symbol equality
• Line Width: — Changes how bold the slot line looks — Improve readability — Mistaking visibility changes for logic changes

What to verify after core changes

• If you changed TimeFrame:, confirm the slot is still legal on the current chart.
• If you changed Lower TF Precision: or Window:, confirm you did not create a geometry error.
• If you changed Window Mode:, confirm whether reset markers now should or should not appear.
• If you changed CVD Length: or Signal Length:, confirm whether the slot genuinely became slower or faster instead of merely looking nicer.
• If you changed Pressure Sensitivity: or Wick Weight:, compare the slot to its prior version before deciding the new one is better.
• If you changed Blended Weight:, confirm whether the blend changed while the slot's own line stayed the same.

Stack-wide controls

This indicator has one group of settings that affects the whole stack, not one slot at a time.

• On Bar Close? — Choosing confirmed higher-timeframe values versus live-forming ones for the whole stack — You have not yet verified what live-forming mode changes on your chart
• Enable Master Smoothing — Turning on a final smoothing pass after the blend is already built — You are still deciding whether the slot stack itself is clean enough
• Master MA Type — Choosing the smoothing model for the blended pair — Master smoothing is off
• Master Length — Controlling how heavy the final blended smoothing is — Master smoothing is off
• ALMA Floor Offset? — Changing how ALMA offset is handled — No slot or master smoothing is using ALMA
• ALMA Offset: — Tuning ALMA placement behavior — No selected MA surface is using ALMA
• ALMA Sigma: — Tuning ALMA smoothness — No selected MA surface is using ALMA

On Bar Close? is the one shared setting that changes trust posture, not only tuning. Handle it early enough to understand it, but not casually. The ALMA controls are also shared in this build. If several MA selectors use ALMA, they all inherit the same ALMA settings.

Blend and threshold controls

Control: What it changes; Important note

• Plot Blended CVD/Signal — Shows or hides the blended pair visually — Hiding the blend does not remove blended calculations or alerts
• Blended Line Width: — Changes how bold the blended lines look — This is visual only
• Overbought Level — Sets the upper threshold line and blended overbought alert level — It is a chosen reference level, not a universal sell signal
• Oversold Level — Sets the lower threshold line and blended oversold alert level — It is a chosen reference level, not a universal buy signal

The blended pair only uses enabled slots whose Blended Weight: is not 0. If every active contributor has zero weight, the blended lines disappear because the summary has nothing left to summarize.

The four settings that shape trust the most

TimeFrame:

This decides whether the slot is even valid on your chart and what layer of structure it is supposed to represent. Faster smoothing does not rescue a mismatched timeframe.

Window Mode: and Window:

These decide whether the slot is telling an anchored story or a sliding one. That is a workflow choice, not a small cosmetic preference.

Blended Weight:

This decides how loudly a slot speaks inside the summary. If the weight feels arbitrary, the blend will feel cleaner than it deserves.

On Bar Close?

This decides whether the stack reads the last closed higher-timeframe bar or the still-forming one. Use it as a declared trust choice, not as a quick way to make the pane feel more responsive.

Choosing moving-average styles without getting lost

This build exposes eight MA choices anywhere a smoothing selector appears: SMA, EMA, RMA, WMA, VWMA, HMA, ALMA, and SWMA. That is enough room to shape the workflow, but it is also common to overbuild the stack if you start mixing styles before the baseline makes sense.

A practical starting posture:

• use one MA style across the first stack
• learn what CVD Length: and Signal Length: do before mixing several MA styles
• leave master smoothing off until the unsmoothed blend already makes sense
• reach for ALMA only when you can explain why that change belongs in the workflow

After any smoothing change, look at the same swing or regime transition you were already watching. If the line only looks better because it got quieter, that is not enough evidence to keep the change.

Settings combinations that usually work better than random exploration

Keep a clean same-symbol base stack

• 2 to 3 active slots
• confirmed mode on
• one MA style across the stack
• non-zero blend weights only for the slots that truly belong in the summary

Add a diagnostic slot

• keep the slot enabled
• set its Blended Weight: to 0
• keep it visible or hide it depending on what you are testing

This is useful when you want one more read without letting it quietly steer the summary.

Add outside-market context carefully

• start with one alternate-ticker slot only
• keep its weight at 0 until you have verified how it behaves
• compare it to the source market on a separate chart before letting it influence the blend

Compare anchored versus rolling behavior

• keep one slot in Session
• move another comparable slot to Rolling
• hold the rest of the stack steady long enough to see what changed

This is a better learning move than changing several geometry controls at once.

Stop signs worth respecting

• slow down if you notice you are changing several controls before checking what any one of them did
• you are raising sensitivity because the default line feels indecisive, not because the workflow needs a stronger classifier
• you added another ticker because the chart felt uncertain, not because the process needed outside context
• you turned master smoothing on before deciding whether the raw blend already makes sense
• you switched On Bar Close? off without deciding how that changes your expectations

What this page does not promise

• There is no universal best CVD stack here.
• Higher sensitivity does not automatically create a better read.
• More smoothing does not automatically create a truer read.
• A heavier blend weight does not make a slot more correct. It only makes that slot more influential.

Visual placeholder: Settings capture showing one slot's geometry and participation controls beside the shared On Bar Close?, master smoothing, and ALMA controls, with callouts on TimeFrame:, Window Mode:, Pressure Sensitivity:, and Blended Weight:.