Settings

Axiom BB Pro has a large control surface, but the logic repeats. That is the good news. You do not need to memorize 10 unrelated systems. You need one clean slot model, a sensible order for changing it, and the discipline to verify each change before you stack the next one on top.

Why this order matters: the settings can widen the chart much faster than they widen understanding. This page is here to keep those two things moving together.

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 family, length, and band width
4. decide whether the slot belongs in the blend
5. decide whether the slot should be confirmed or live-forming
6. only then add alternate-ticker context or power-user tuning

That order is doing real work. Earlier settings decide what kind of slot you have. Later settings only make sense after that foundation is stable.

Start with the repeated slot model

Slots BB 01 through BB 10 share the same main controls.

Out of the box:

• BB 01, BB 02, and BB 03 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
• BB 04 through BB 10 are disabled, blank on timeframe, and start with Blended Weight: at 0

That makes the default experience a three-slot ladder with room to expand, not a fully populated ten-slot dashboard.

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: blank until the same-symbol stack already makes sense.
• Verify one change on-chart before making the next one.
• Keep new expansion slots at 0 blend weight until you know whether they deserve influence.

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

If you are overloaded, ignore the power-user section for now. A stable three-slot stack teaches more than a clever ten-slot experiment you cannot explain.

Core slot controls

Control | What it changes | When to touch it | Common mistake

Enable BB 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 BB 0X Plot | Hides the slot envelope without disabling the slot | Reduce clutter while keeping the slot alive for logic | Forgetting that hidden does not mean inactive

Source: | Chooses the price series the slot evaluates when it uses the chart symbol | Compare closes versus another price source | Assuming source changes are cosmetic when they alter the basis and bands

TimeFrame: | Chooses the slot timeframe | Build a short, medium, and higher-timeframe ladder | Setting an enabled slot below the chart timeframe and triggering a runtime error

Length: | Changes the smoothing window for basis and deviation | Tighten or slow the slot | Treating a longer value as more trustworthy instead of simply slower

StdDev Mult: | Changes the width of the band | Widen or tighten the envelope | Making the band wider until it only looks calmer, not more useful

Type: | Chooses which moving-average family defines the basis | Compare different basis behavior | Jumping between many families before the workflow is stable

Line Width: | Changes slot line thickness | Improve readability on a crowded chart | Treating visibility changes as logic changes

Blended Weight: | Decides how much the slot affects the blended band | 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, then remaps it into chart price space | Add outside context without leaving the chart | Reading the remapped band as literal price equality

What to verify after core changes

• 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 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:, compare that slot against the source market on a separate chart before you trust the comparison.

If two or three changes moved at once, back up and test them one at a time. This indicator rewards deliberate changes much more than batch tuning.

Power-user controls

Every slot also has its own power-user section. Those controls matter only when the slot setup actually calls for them.

Control | Use it for | Leave it alone when

On Bar Close? | Choosing confirmed versus live-forming higher-timeframe values for that slot | You have not yet verified what mixed timing does on your chart

ALMA Floor Offset? | Adjusting ALMA-specific offset handling | The slot is not using ALMA

ALMA Offset: | Tuning ALMA placement behavior | The slot is not using ALMA

ALMA Sigma: | Tuning ALMA smoothness | The slot is not using ALMA

KAMA/FRAMA Fast: | Setting the fast side of adaptive smoothing | The slot is not using KAMA or FRAMA

KAMA/FRAMA Slow: | Setting the slow side of adaptive smoothing | The slot is not using KAMA or FRAMA

Jurik Phase: | Adjusting the Jurik phase response | The slot is not using JMA

Jurik Power: | Adjusting Jurik smoothing character | The slot is not using JMA

Laguerre Alpha: | Adjusting Laguerre responsiveness | The slot is not using LAGUERRE

VAMA Vol Length: | Choosing the volatility lookback for VAMA | The slot is not using VAMA

On Bar Close? is the one power-user control that changes trust posture, not just tuning. Handle that early enough to understand it, but not casually.

If you are not sure whether you need the rest of these controls, that is your answer for now. Leave them at default until the base workflow is already doing useful work.

Blend controls

Control | What it changes | Important note

Enable Blended BB | Turns the blended band on or off | The slot stack still exists even if the blend is disabled

Hide Blended BB Plot | Hides the blended band while leaving blend logic active | Useful when you want slot structure without another visible overlay

blended Line Width: | Changes only the blended band thickness | This does not affect how the blend is calculated

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.

That makes Blended Weight: one of the easiest controls to misuse quietly. The chart can still look full while the summary has stopped listening to part of the stack.

The 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 sophisticated basis family 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 a slot reads the last closed higher-timeframe bar or the still-forming one. Because it is per slot, one stack can carry mixed timing assumptions at the same time.

Optional Ticker:

This decides whether the slot stays on the chart symbol or becomes remapped outside context. Use it to add perspective, not to borrow certainty.

Choosing basis families without drowning in options

The Type: menu exposes 21 basis families:

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

That is a lot of choice. Treat it like room to refine a workflow, not like a demand to optimize everything on day one.

A practical starting posture:

• pick one familiar family for the first stack
• use the same family across the first three active slots
• learn how Length: and StdDev Mult: change the workflow before you compare several basis families
• move into adaptive or specialized families only when you have a specific reason, not because exotic names feel more serious

Once Type: moves away from SMA, you are no longer reading a plain textbook SMA Bollinger Band. The layout still looks familiar, but the basis behavior underneath it has changed.

That is a fit question, not a prestige question. Pick a family because it helps your read stay clearer, not because it sounds more advanced.

Settings combinations that usually work better than random exploration

Keep a clean base stack

• 2 to 3 active same-symbol slots
• consistent On Bar Close? posture across those slots
• one basis family across the stack
• non-zero blend weights only for slots that truly belong in the summary

Add a diagnostic slot

• enable one extra slot
• 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

Test mixed timing on purpose

• keep most slots confirmed
• turn one exploratory slot live-forming
• watch that one slot in replay before you let it into a serious workflow

This is the safest way to learn what per-slot timing freedom actually costs.

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 extra slots because the chart felt uncertain, not because you had a new job for them
• you are using heavier blend weights because a slot feels emotionally comforting
• you switched some slots to live-forming without deciding how that changes your expectations

Those are the moments where flexibility usually stops helping and starts hiding confusion.

When that happens, the best move is usually smaller:

• fewer active slots
• one basis family
• confirmed timing
• same-symbol context only

What this page does not promise

• There is no universal best Bollinger recipe here.
• More active slots do not automatically produce a stronger read.
• A more exotic basis family does not automatically produce better decisions.
• 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 main controls beside its power-user section, with callouts for TimeFrame:, Blended Weight:, On Bar Close?, and Optional Ticker:.