Settings

Axiom BB Lite has a compact control surface, but it still pays to change settings in the right order. The point of this page is not to help you touch every knob. It is to help you make changes that stay legible under pressure. One clean change you can verify is worth more than 5 interesting changes you cannot explain.

Use the settings in this order:

1. decide whether the slot should exist at all
2. choose the timeframe and source
3. choose the basis model, length, and band width
4. decide whether the slot belongs in the blend
5. decide whether the whole stack should read confirmed or still-forming higher-timeframe data
6. only then explore alternate-ticker context or ALMA tuning

That order reduces overload for a reason. Earlier settings decide what kind of object the slot is. Later settings only make sense after that foundation is stable.

Start with the repeated slot model

Slots BB 01 through BB 03 share the same main controls.

Out of the box:

• all 3 slots are enabled
• their default TimeFrame: values are 5, 15, and 60
• their default Source: is close
• their default Length: is 20
• their default StdDev Mult: is 2.0
• their default Type: is SMA
• their default Blended Weight: is 33.3

That makes the default experience a 3-layer Bollinger ladder, not a one-size-fits-all preset.

The shortest safe way to use this page

If you are still learning the indicator, do not tune everything at once.

• Touch Enable, TimeFrame:, Length:, StdDev Mult:, Type:, and Blended Weight: first.
• Leave Optional Ticker: alone until the same-symbol stack already makes sense.
• Verify one change on-chart before making the next one.
• Keep alternate-ticker slots at 0 blend weight until you have checked them against a separate chart.

That sequence protects you from a common failure mode with flexible tools: the chart starts looking sophisticated before it starts making sense.

Core slot controls

What to verify after core changes

After you change any core slot control, check the smallest useful thing:

• If you changed TimeFrame:, confirm the slot is still valid on the current chart timeframe.
• If you changed Type:, Length:, or StdDev Mult:, confirm the slot envelope changed the way you expected before touching anything else.
• If you changed Blended Weight:, confirm whether the blend changed while the slot's own envelope stayed the same.
• If you added Optional Ticker:, confirm the remapped slot against the source market on a separate chart before you trust the comparison.

Global controls

This indicator has one shared control group that matters more than it first appears.

On Bar Close? is the one global setting that changes trust posture, not just tuning. Handle it early enough to understand it, but not casually. The ALMA controls are also global in this build. If 2 slots use ALMA, they share the same ALMA tuning values.

Blend controls

The blend has its own small settings group:

The blended band uses enabled slots with non-zero weight. If a slot is active but its Blended Weight: is 0, that slot still exists, but it drops out of blended math.

The 3 settings that shape trust the most

These matter more than most readers expect:

TimeFrame:

This decides whether the slot is even valid on your current chart and what layer of structure it is supposed to represent. A clever basis type cannot rescue a mismatched timeframe.

Blended Weight:

This decides how loudly a slot speaks inside the summary band. 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 chart feel faster.

Choosing basis types without drowning in options

This build exposes 8 basis options:

SMA, EMA, RMA, WMA, VWMA, HMA, ALMA, and SWMA.

That is enough room to shape the workflow, but it is still easy to overdo it.

A practical starting posture:

• pick one basis type for the first stack
• use the same type across the first 3 active slots
• learn how Length: and StdDev Mult: affect the workflow before you mix several basis models
• move into ALMA only when you have a specific reason, not because more knobs feel more serious

Settings combinations that usually work better than random exploration

Keep a clean base stack

• 2 to 3 active same-symbol slots
• confirmed mode on
• one basis type across the stack
• non-zero blend weights only for 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 hidden depending on what you are testing

This is useful when you want one additional read without letting it quietly steer the blend.

Add cross-ticker context carefully

• start with one alternate-symbol 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 treating it as actionable context

Stop signs worth respecting

Slow down if you notice any of these:

• you are changing several settings before checking what any one of them did
• you added cross-ticker context because the chart felt uncertain, not because the workflow needed it
• you are using heavier blend weights because a slot "feels right"
• you switched On Bar Close? off without deciding how that changes your expectations

What this page does not promise

• There is no universal best Bollinger recipe here.
• More active slots do not automatically produce more reliable context.
• A more exotic basis type does not automatically produce better decisions.
• A heavy blend weight does not make a slot more correct. It only makes that slot more influential.

Visual placeholder: Settings capture showing one slot's main controls beside the global On Bar Close? and ALMA controls, with callouts for TimeFrame:, Blended Weight:, and Optional Ticker:.