Settings

The settings window is broad enough to feel like the product if you stare at it too long. It is not. What matters is deciding what job each active slot should do, then touching only the controls that belong to that job. That is why this page is organized by decision role instead of by slot number alone. This matters because the fastest way to lose trust in this indicator is to make five changes, get one cleaner-looking pane, and no longer know which choice actually earned the improvement.

Use this order when you are adjusting the indicator:

1. decide what job each active slot is supposed to do
2. make the slot legal on the chart
3. decide whether that slot should be confirmed or live-forming
4. decide what baseline behavior the slot should compare against
5. decide how quickly the slot should classify regime
6. decide whether the slot belongs in the blend
7. only then touch master smoothing

The shipped starting point

The default load is already opinionated:

• `MA 01`, `MA 02`, and `MA 03` are enabled
• their timeframes are `5`, `15`, and `60`
• their `Source:` is `close`
• their baseline is `EMA(20)`
• their slot Slow line is `EMA(3)`
• each starts with `Blended Weight: 33.3`
• each starts with `On Bar Close? = true`
• slots `04` through `10` are disabled
• slots `04` through `10` ship as parked expansion space with blank `TimeFrame:`, `SMA(21)` baselines, `EMA(3)` Slow lines, and `0` blend weight
• `ATR Length = 14` and `ATR Sensitivity = 1.0`
• the blended pair is visible
• master smoothing starts off

That is a real baseline, not a neutral one. Treat it like a first ladder you can verify, not like a universal best preset.

If the menu starts to blur together, answer these first

On a first pass, most readers only need four answers:

1. Is every enabled slot legal on this chart?
2. Is each active slot confirmed or live-forming?
3. Does each active slot have one clear job?
4. Is the blend only using the slots you actually want summarized?

If those four answers are still shaky, leave the advanced MA families and power-user fields alone for now. A complicated menu does not become a better workflow just because you touched more of it.

The first distinction to keep straight

Before you change anything else, keep these three states separate:

If that distinction stays blurry, every later setting change gets harder to interpret.

Slot activation and visibility

Core controls:

• `Enable MA 01` through `Enable MA 10`
• `Hide MA 01 Plot` through `Hide MA 10 Plot`
• `Line Width:`

What these controls do:

• `Enable` decides whether the slot is alive in the script
• `Hide` only removes the slot drawing
• `Line Width:` changes the visual emphasis of a visible slot

When to change them:

• disable a slot when it should stop existing for now
• hide a slot when it still matters logically but you do not want the pane to get crowded
• change line width when you want one slot role more visible than another

Misuse risk: An enabled hidden slot can still shape the blend and still matter to alignment alerts. If you wanted the slot gone from the logic, hiding it was not enough.

Slot context and chart-fit controls

Core controls:

• `Source:`
• `TimeFrame:`
• `Optional Ticker:`

These controls decide what the slot is reading and where it is reading it from.

`TimeFrame:`

This is the requested timeframe for the slot itself.

Change it when:

• you need a faster or slower context layer
• the shipped ladder does not fit the chart you are using
• you are enabling one of the parked slots and need to assign it a real job

Hard rule: An enabled slot cannot run below the chart timeframe.

Practical note: A blank `TimeFrame:` on one of the parked slots falls back to the chart timeframe. That can be useful, but it is not a substitute for deciding what role the slot is supposed to play.

`Source:`

This decides which series the slot compares against its own baseline.

Change it when: the workflow really depends on another source choice

Do not change it as: random experimentation layered on top of timeframe, MA-family, and weight changes all at once

`Optional Ticker:`

This lets the slot request another symbol instead of the chart symbol.

Change it when: you already understand the same-symbol stack and one outside market genuinely adds context

Do not change it as: automatic confirmation or a shortcut around checking the outside market directly when the decision really matters

Slot baseline controls

Core controls:

• `Type:`
• `Length:`

The baseline is the anchor the slot measures against. It is not the plotted line.

The practical question here is: "What kind of baseline should this slot treat as its home reference?"

`Type:`

This chooses the MA family used for the slot baseline.

Change it when: the current baseline behavior does not fit the slot's job

Do not change it as: a prestige search for the smartest-looking family

`Length:`

This controls how quickly or slowly the baseline itself moves.

Change it when: you need the slot to anchor faster or slower

Do not change it as: a global sweep across every active slot at once when the point of the ladder is different roles

Slot regime controls

Core controls:

• `Slow Type:`
• `Slow Length:`

Every slot compares its Fast reading to an internal Slow line. The slot Slow line is not drawn, but it still determines bullish slot state, bearish slot state, slot color, and slot regime-flip alerts.

`Slow Type:`

This chooses the MA family used to smooth slot Fast into slot Slow.

Change it when: the slot is changing regime too abruptly or too reluctantly for the job you gave it

`Slow Length:`

This controls how reactive the slot's internal regime reference is.

Change it when: you want the slot state to tighten or loosen

Do not use it as: a way to manufacture more flips and mistake the extra movement for extra truth

Blend participation and slot timing

Core controls:

• `Blended Weight:`
• `On Bar Close?`

These controls decide whether the slot only exists locally or whether it also helps shape the summary layer, and what trust posture that slot carries while doing it.

`Blended Weight:`

This controls how much influence the slot has in the blended Fast/Slow pair.

Use it when: one slot deserves more influence than another or you want a slot visible or alertable without letting it steer the blend

Important boundary: `0` weight removes the slot from the blend only. The slot can still plot, still alert, and still count toward all-slot agreement if it remains enabled.

`On Bar Close?`

This is the slot's confirmation choice.

- on: the slot uses confirmed requested-context values - off: the slot can move with the still-forming requested-context bar

Use it when: you need a steadier slot or you deliberately want one exploratory live-forming slot inside a mostly confirmed stack

Misuse risk: One mixed stack can look unified even when some slots are settled and others are still forming. Keep that visible in your notes or labels, not only in memory.

Oscillator controls

Core controls:

• `ATR Length`
• `ATR Sensitivity`
• `Overbought Level`
• `Oversold Level`

These controls shape how the slot stretch is normalized and how the blended summary is framed inside the bounded range.

`ATR Length`

This is the normalization window behind the slot stretch read.

Use it when: the current stretch read feels too noisy or too slow for the job the stack is trying to do

`ATR Sensitivity`

This changes how quickly the slot Fast reading presses toward the outer boundaries.

Use it when: the oscillator needs to feel calmer or more eager

Do not use it as: a truth slider or a way to make saturation feel like conviction

`Overbought Level` and `Oversold Level`

These control the reference lines and blended threshold alerts.

Use them when: you want context markers that fit your workflow

Do not use them as: universal reversal promises

Display and summary controls

Core controls:

• `Plot Blended Fast/Slow`
• `Blended Line Width:`
• per-slot `Line Width:`

These controls affect what gets emphasized visually.

`Plot Blended Fast/Slow`

Turn this off when: you want to read the slot layer by itself for a while

Important boundary: Hiding the blended pair does not erase the blended calculation or the blended alert logic.

`Blended Line Width:` and slot `Line Width:`

Use these when: you want one part of the pane easier to see

Do not use them as: silent authority sliders. A thicker line can make a read look more important than it really is.

Master smoothing

Core controls:

• `Enable Master Smoothing`
• `Master MA Type`
• `Master Length`

Plus the family-specific master controls when that family uses them.

Master smoothing is a final pass on the blended Fast and blended Slow lines after the weighted blend already exists.

Use it when: the slot design already makes sense and you want the summary layer calmer without rewriting each slot

Do not use it when: the slot stack still feels vague or you are hoping a smoother blend will rescue weak slot design

If the summary only looks good after heavy master smoothing, step back and check whether the slots underneath it still have clean roles.

The pro MA menu

The indicator exposes 21 MA families for slot baselines, slot Slow lines, and master smoothing:

• `SMA`
• `EMA`
• `RMA`
• `WMA`
• `VWMA`
• `HMA`
• `ALMA`
• `SWMA`
• `DEMA`
• `TEMA`
• `TRIMA`
• `LSMA`
• `KAMA`
• `JMA`
• `FRAMA`
• `T3MA`
• `VAMA`
• `ZLMA`
• `ZLEMA`
• `LAGUERRE`
• `MCGINLEY`

That breadth is real, but it is not a performance claim by itself.

Practical guidance:

• stay with a familiar family first
• only change the family when you have a reason the current behavior is wrong for the slot's job
• keep the family simple across the baseline before you start mixing styles inside one stack
• remember that some families need extra controls and some do not

Family-specific power-user controls

These fields only matter when the chosen family actually uses them:

• baseline `ALMA Offset`, `ALMA Sigma`, and `ALMA Floor Offset?`
• baseline `KAMA/FRAMA Fast` and `KAMA/FRAMA Slow`
• baseline `Jurik Phase` and `Jurik Power`
• baseline `Laguerre Alpha`
• baseline `VAMA Vol Length`
• the matching `Slow ...` controls for the slot Slow line
• the matching `Master ...` controls for master smoothing

In practice, those advanced fields matter for: `ALMA`, `KAMA`, `FRAMA`, `JMA`, `LAGUERRE`, `VAMA`.

Use them when: you already know why the chosen family belongs in the slot and the core length is not enough to get the behavior you need

Leave them alone when: you are still learning the baseline or you are not sure whether the slot job itself is well chosen

What to leave alone at first

If you are learning the indicator, keep these stable on your first pass:

• slots `04` through `10`
• alternate tickers
• uneven weights
• most MA family changes
• most family-specific power-user fields
• master smoothing

That restraint is not about limiting the tool. It is about giving yourself one baseline you can still explain.

A practical tuning order

If the baseline is not fitting your workflow, change settings in this order:

1. timeframe legality
2. slot role
3. `On Bar Close?`
4. baseline `Type:` and `Length:`
5. `Slow Type:` and `Slow Length:`
6. oscillator controls
7. `Blended Weight:`
8. `Optional Ticker:`
9. MA-family-specific power-user fields
10. master smoothing

That order protects you from the most common failure mode here: changing five things, getting one prettier pane, and having no idea which choice actually earned the improvement.

Before you leave this page

You should be able to answer these without opening the code or guessing:

• Which active slots are legal on the current chart?
• Which active slots are confirmed and which are live-forming?
• Which active slots are shaping the blend and which ones are only local?
• Which setting family you would touch first if the stack felt too fast, too slow, or too crowded?

If those answers are still fuzzy, do not widen the stack yet. Go back to the smallest slot change you can explain cleanly.

Visual placeholder: Settings capture highlighting one baseline slot group, that slot's power-user controls, and the separate master smoothing block so the three control layers are easy to distinguish.