Quick Start

Goal of this page: get the pane on a chart, prove it is behaving sensibly, and install the reading order before your existing stoch reflexes quietly corrupt the read. In that order.

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Quick Start

Goal of this page: get the pane on a chart, prove it is behaving sensibly, and install the reading order before your existing stoch reflexes quietly corrupt the read. In that order.

This is the shortest correct first use. Not the only one. If the defaults do not fit the instrument you trade, the knob walk in Settings explains what each dial does and what each change costs you. Come here first anyway, because some of the things that trip up experienced stoch readers on this pane are sitting on the defaults already, waiting.

Put it on the chart

Load Axiom Stoch Osc onto a 1m chart of a liquid instrument. Pick something that moves enough to produce visible state during a short session — a 1m chart of a major FX pair or a liquid futures symbol is fine. The pane sits below the chart, centered on a 50 midline, with 0 and 100 drawn as rails and dashed reference lines at 20 and 80.

Leave the defaults alone. At the default configuration:

  • Three slots are enabled, running on timeframes 5, 15, and 60.

  • Each slot uses close as its source, K Length 14, K Smoothing SMA 3, D Length 3 SMA.

  • Each slot's blend weight is 33.3.

  • Master smoothing is off. EMA is the master family, length 3, but the pass is not running.

  • Global On Bar Close? is on.

  • Reference lines sit at 80 and 20.

That configuration is the textbook slow-stoch baseline, stacked across three timeframes, blended equally. It is a sensible starting place. It is not an endpoint.

First-bar sanity check

Before you read anything, verify that the pane is doing what it should. This takes under a minute.

  1. Values sit inside 0..100. If you see anything outside that frame, something is wrong — but you will not. The stochastic transform is bounded 0..100 by construction, and the pane does not draw outside its rails.

  2. Three slot lines are visible. Slot 01 in teal, slot 02 in aqua, slot 03 in blue. If one is missing and all three are enabled, the slot may still be warming up. On a 1m chart, a 60m slot needs enough loaded 60m history behind it, so do not judge the pane from the first handful of chart bars.

  3. A thicker blended pair is visible. A lime-or-red blended K at line width 3, a gray blended D at the same width, and a tinted fill between them. If the blended pair is missing and all three slots are drawing, you are either in warm-up (the blend needs at least one slot contributing a non-na K) or Plot Blended K/D has been toggled off somewhere.

  4. Colors react to the slot's K-vs-D relationship. Full-tone slot color means K above D on that slot. Faded slot color means K below D. This is the single most important visual rule in the pack. It is worth staring at for a minute.

  5. Slot 03 does not revise once its 60m bar is open. Because On Bar Close? is on, slot 03 returns its previous 60m bar's values — stable across chart bars until the next 60m bar closes. If you switch On Bar Close? to off, slot 03 will begin drifting inside each 60m bar. That switch gets its own page. Come back to MTF and Repainting when you want to work with it.

If any of those five looks wrong on the first session, the answer is almost never that the tool is broken. It is usually one of three things: warm-up has not finished, a slot's timeframe is configured below the chart's timeframe and Pine is raising a runtime error, or your slot timeframes have been set so close together that the lines are telling nearly the same story. Troubleshooting leads with those three.

Before you move on, try to narrate the pane out loud in three sentences. One: "Slot N is at value X, color is full-tone or faded, so K is above or below D on that slot." Two: "The blend is at value Y, lime or red, and the fill is tinted in that direction." Three: "All three slots are pointing the same way, or they are not." If you can say those three things without looking away from the pane, the reading order is starting to land. If you had to look twice to find the color before the number, that is the reflex this page is training against — keep looking at the color first.

The reading order: color first, value second, blend third

This is the one thing worth installing before you touch any knob, because the stoch habit you already carry will fight you on it.

A textbook single-timeframe stoch is read value-first: the line crosses 80, you notice; it crosses 20, you notice. That reflex is not wrong in its own context, but it is incomplete here, because each slot on this pane carries two pieces of information at the same time, and the value is the smaller of the two.

Every slot line's color encodes whether that slot's smoothed K sits above or below its own smoothed D. Full tone means K above D. Faded means K below D. That is the primary decision each slot is making on every bar.

Every slot line's value encodes where the smoothed K is sitting inside its 0..100 lookback window. That is intensity.

A slot printing 55 in full tone is a different event from a slot printing 55 in faded tone, even though the value is the same. The first is saying K is above D while both sit slightly above the midline. The second is saying K is below D — leaning down — while both sit slightly above the midline. Scanning the slot at value-only reads both of those as the same thing. Scanning color first separates them.

Practice it right now. Pick slot 01. Watch its color. Watch it flip between full tone and faded as K crosses D. Only then look at the value. Then scan to slot 02, same order. Then slot 03. Then the blended pair — which has its own color logic on the same K-vs-D relationship, blended K versus blended D.

That is the reading order. Color first, value second, blend third. If you do not install it here, Visuals and Logic will walk it again in more detail.

Two things that look broken but are not

Two first-session surprises cost people enough time that they are worth naming here rather than burying in the troubleshooting page.

The first. On a fresh load, the pane might draw each slot's K line for a while without the slot's color doing anything useful. During warm-up, the slot's D has not yet filled — the second smoothing pass needs enough bars behind it. While D is still na, each slot falls back to a simpler rule for its color (K above or below the 50 midline). That fallback only exists during warm-up, and it is the one moment on the pane where color is not reporting K-vs-D. Once D fills, the rule snaps back to the real one and holds for the rest of the session. If the colors look strange early, especially on higher-timeframe slots, that is the reason. Leave the chart open and let the pane settle.

The second. You switch from a 1m chart to a 1H chart with the default 5 / 15 / 60 stack still loaded. Slots 01 and 02 are now below the chart timeframe, so the script raises a runtime error instead of silently pretending those lower-timeframe slots are valid on the 1H chart. The tool is correct. The configuration needs to be re-thought for the new chart timeframe — for example, 1H / 4H / 1D if that is the ladder you actually want.

There is a related version of that same surprise: a slot's TimeFrame: set below the chart's timeframe raises a runtime error that names the slot. You will see something like Stoch 02 timeframe cannot be lower than the chart timeframe. if, say, you switch a slot to 1m while the chart sits on 5m. The error is the indicator refusing a nonsensical configuration, not a failure state. Fix the slot's timeframe or lower the chart.

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