Settings

This page explains the settings in the order most traders actually need them.

The script repeats one slot model three times. Once you understand what one slot does, the rest of the stack becomes much easier to shape on purpose.

The important mindset here is simple: these controls are not just chart decoration. They change what evidence the stack is built from, how quickly it changes, and how much trust the summary line has earned.

If you feel overloaded, ignore three things on the first pass:

• Optional Ticker:
• uneven blend weights
• ALMA-specific tuning

Get the same-symbol stack working first. Those extras teach more once the base stack already makes sense.

Start with the repeated slot controls

Each slot has the same job:

• choose whether the slot is active
• choose what market context it reads
• choose what kind of moving average it calculates
• choose how quickly its trend state changes
• choose whether and how strongly it shapes the blend

That is enough flexibility to be useful. It is also enough flexibility to get messy fast if you change too many things at once.

Slot controls that decide whether the slot exists

If the slot is hidden but still enabled, it can keep affecting alerts and full alignment. If its blend weight is non-zero, it can also keep shaping the blended line.

Slot controls that decide what the slot reads

One hard rule lives here: every enabled slot timeframe must stay at or above the chart timeframe.

If the indicator errors on first load, this is the first section to check.

Slot controls that decide how the MA behaves

The lite build exposes eight MA types:

• SMA
• EMA
• RMA
• WMA
• VWMA
• HMA
• ALMA
• SWMA

You do not need to use several of them at once to get value from the script. In most cases, one MA type across the first stack teaches more than a mixed menu.

Slot controls that decide how the blend behaves

Use these rules to stay oriented:

• disabled slot: gone from the chart and the logic
• hidden slot: active, but not drawn
• zero-weight slot: active, but ignored by the blend

A zero-weight slot can still plot, change state, fire alerts, and affect full alignment.

That distinction matters because a lot of "the blend feels wrong" problems are really participation problems, not MA problems.

Visual controls

Be careful with visual emphasis. A thicker line can feel more authoritative even when nothing about the underlying trust changed.

Global controls

These settings do not belong to one slot. They affect the whole stack.

On Bar Close?

Default: On

This is the main trust control in the indicator.

• On: the stack uses confirmed higher-timeframe values
• Off: the stack follows still-forming higher-timeframe values

In this build, that change applies across all three slots. If you toggle it, the timing posture of the whole stack changes with it.

If you want the safer first learning path, leave it on and read MTF and Repainting before experimenting.

ALMA Floor Offset?, ALMA Offset:, ALMA Sigma:

Defaults:

• ALMA Floor Offset?: Off
• ALMA Offset:: 0.85
• ALMA Sigma:: 6.0

These only matter when one or more slots use ALMA.

They do not create a special extra mode for the rest of the MA menu, and they are global in this build. If two slots use ALMA, they share the same ALMA tuning values.

Default profile at a glance

A practical order for changing settings

If you feel overloaded, change settings in this order:

1. fix timeframe compatibility
2. decide whether the slot should exist at all
3. keep the symbol the same until the base stack makes sense
4. choose MA type and length
5. adjust trend length
6. tune blend weights
7. test optional ticker only after the same-symbol stack feels stable
8. test live-forming timing only after you understand confirmed timing

That order protects comprehension. It also makes it much easier to tell what caused a behavior change.

If you skip that order and change everything at once, the chart may still look cleaner while your confidence gets weaker. This page is trying to prevent that kind of false progress.

Two settings mistakes that matter more than they look

Trend Length = 0

In the current build, a trend length of 0 does not create a hyper-fast mode. It forces that slot's up-state logic down instead of giving you a meaningful state comparison.

all active weights set to 0

If every active slot weight is 0, the blended view stops being a useful summary. The slot lines may still be doing work, but the blend no longer has meaningful contributors.

From here, go to Visuals and Logic if you want to understand how the chart states are derived, or Cross-Ticker Scaling if the optional ticker field is the next thing you need.

Visual placeholder: Settings panel capture with one slot group annotated for TimeFrame:, Type:, Trend Length:, Blended Weight:, and Optional Ticker:, plus a second callout showing the global timing and ALMA controls.