Quick Start

This page is about the shortest correct first run, not the most creative stack you might build later. The goal is simple: get one legal MACD stack on the chart, confirm what the pane is showing, and leave with a baseline you can explain. That makes later customization much safer. Why this matters: most early confusion with this indicator does not come from installation. It comes from getting the chart to look active before you can say what is shaping the blend, what is still forming, and what changed when you touched a setting. A calm first run protects you from building trust on top of a stack you do not yet understand.

Pick one path before you start

- If your chart timeframe is 5m or lower, use Option A. - If your chart timeframe is above 5m, use Option B. Do not combine both paths on the first pass. Reach one stable result first.

For this first run, leave these alone unless the page tells you otherwise:

• Optional Ticker:
• custom MA-family mixes
• Enable Master Smoothing
• live-forming timing

Check this before you add the indicator

Look at the chart timeframe before anything else.

The default stack enables:

• MACD 01 on 5
• MACD 02 on 15
• MACD 03 on 60

Every enabled slot must stay at or above the chart timeframe. If the chart is above one of those slot values, fix that conflict before you expect the script to run normally.

If you only take one warning from this page, take that one. Most first-run trouble starts there.

Option A: use the shipped stack as intended

Use this path when your chart timeframe is 1m or 5m.

1. Add Axiom MACD Osc Lite to the chart.
2. Confirm the pane shows three slot Fast lines, the blended Fast/Slow pair, the blended histogram, and the 100 / 0 / -100 structure with overbought and oversold levels.
3. Open settings and confirm On Bar Close? is enabled.
4. Confirm the slot TimeFrame: values are still 5, 15, and 60.
5. Leave Optional Ticker: blank on all three slots for the first pass.
6. Keep each slot Blended Weight: at 33.3.
7. Open the alert picker once and confirm the script exposes slot alerts, blended alerts, histogram alerts, and full-stack alignment alerts.

What you should understand before moving on:

• the first view is a same-symbol three-slot MACD ladder
• each visible slot line is the slot Fast side, not the full internal pair
• the blended read is summarizing the current slot stack, not inventing a fourth independent opinion
• the whole stack is currently using confirmed higher-timeframe values

If any of those lines feel vague, do not tune the stack yet. Go to MTF and Repainting or Visuals and Logic before you change anything else.

Option B: adapt the stack to your chart first

Use this path when your chart timeframe is above 5m, or when you already know the default ladder does not fit the chart you are using.

1. Add the indicator.
2. Open settings immediately.
3. Compare every enabled slot TimeFrame: value to the chart timeframe.
4. Raise any conflicting slot timeframe, or disable that slot.
5. Confirm the runtime error is gone.
6. Leave On Bar Close? enabled while you learn the stack.
7. Keep all slots on the chart symbol for now.
8. Keep every active slot weight positive so the blended summary still exists.

That slower setup is better than forcing the shipped defaults onto a chart they do not fit. The point is not to preserve the factory ladder. The point is to reach one valid stack you can read honestly.

What you should understand before moving on:

• which slot timeframes had to change to make the stack legal
• whether you disabled a slot or only moved it higher
• that the first valid stack matters more than preserving the shipped ladder

First sanity checks

Run these checks before you build alerts or workflows around the pane.

If one of those checks surprises you, pause there. That is exactly the kind of confusion this page is trying to catch early.

If you want one fast read order while the pane is still new, use this:

1. make sure the stack is legal on the chart
2. identify which slots you can actually see
3. identify which slots are shaping the blend
4. verify whether the whole stack is confirmed or live-forming

A sensible first configuration

• Keep the first session narrow:
• use the chart symbol in every slot
• keep On Bar Close? on
• leave master smoothing off
• keep all active weights positive
• start with one MA family across the whole stack before mixing styles
• add alerts only after you can explain what each slot is contributing

The shortest first verification routine

1. Confirm the pane stays inside the bounded oscillator range.
2. Confirm each slot line changes color when its Fast side moves above or below its internal Slow side.
3. Confirm the blended Fast/Slow pair changes when you change one slot weight.
4. Confirm the blended histogram reacts around the zero line as the blend changes.
5. Confirm the chart still behaves the same after you return that weight to its original value.

If those checks pass, you have a usable baseline. If one fails, do not compensate with more settings. Go back to the point that failed and make it explainable first.

Before you move on

You are ready for the next page when you can answer these without guessing:

• Which enabled slot has the lowest timeframe on your chart?
• Is the stack confirmed or live-forming right now?
• Which slots are shaping the blend, and which ones are only there for local context?
• Would the blend still exist if you set every weight to 0?

If those answers are still fuzzy, do not optimize the stack yet. Go to MTF and Repainting, then come back.

Visual placeholder: Settings capture showing the default 5 / 15 / 60 slot ladder, the three slot groups, and the single global On Bar Close? control highlighted.