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 changing only the controls that belong to that job. That is why this page is organized by decision role instead of by slot number alone.

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 how forcefully the slot should classify participation
5. decide how quickly the slot CVD and Signal should move
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:

• `CVD 01`, `CVD 02`, and `CVD 03` are enabled
• their timeframes are `5`, `15`, and `60`
• their `Lower TF Precision:` values are `1`, `1`, and `5`
• they start in `Session` mode with a `D` window
• each starts with `Blended Weight: 33.3`
• each starts with `Pressure Sensitivity: 1.50`
• each starts with `Wick Weight: 0.20`
• each starts with `CVD Type: SMA`, `CVD Length: 3`
• each starts with `Signal Type: SMA`, `Signal Length: 3`
• each starts with `On Bar Close? = true`
• slots `04` through `10` are disabled
• 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 you are overloaded, touch these first

On a first pass, most readers only need to make four decisions:

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.

Slot activation and visibility

Core controls:

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

What these controls do:

• `Enable` decides whether the slot is alive in the script
• `Hide` only removes the slot's 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 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.

Timeframe geometry and timing

Core controls:

• `TimeFrame:`
• `Lower TF Precision:`
• `Window Mode:`
• `Window:`
• `On Bar Close?`

These controls decide what context the slot is built from and how settled the slot is allowed to be.

`TimeFrame:`

This is the requested timeframe for the slot itself.

Change it when:

• you need a faster or slower participation layer
• you want the slot to answer a different timing question than the rest of the stack

Hard rule:

An enabled slot cannot run below the chart timeframe.

`Lower TF Precision:`

This is the lower-timeframe sampler the slot uses while estimating participation inside the slot context.

Change it when:

• you want a different level of intrabar sampling detail inside that slot

Hard rule:

It must stay below the slot timeframe.

`Window Mode:` and `Window:`

`Session` keeps the slot anchored to a reset interval. `Rolling` keeps a sliding duration instead.

Change them when:

• you want an anchored "since reset" read
• you want a moving "inside this recent stretch" read

Hard rule:

`Window:` cannot be smaller than the slot timeframe.

`On Bar Close?`

This is the slot's higher-timeframe confirmation choice.

• on: the slot waits for the last confirmed higher-timeframe reading
• off: the slot can move with the still-forming higher-timeframe bar

Change it when:

• you need a steadier slot
• you deliberately want one exploratory live-forming slot in the 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.

Participation shaping

Core controls:

• `Pressure Sensitivity:`
• `Wick Weight:`

These are the controls that change how decisive the slot's participation estimate becomes.

`Pressure Sensitivity:`

Higher values make the slot more willing to classify bars strongly and carry directional bias through more neutral stretches.

Use it when:

• the slot is too hesitant for the job you assigned it
• you want to compare a more opinionated read against the baseline

Do not use it as:

• a truth slider
• a shortcut to cleaner-looking hindsight

`Wick Weight:`

Higher values give wick rejection more influence in the participation estimate.

Use it when:

• rejection behavior matters more in the way you are reading that slot

Do not use it as:

• a way to make every rejection-heavy bar look important

Both controls deserve side-by-side comparison, not blind tuning. Duplicate the slot idea first, then change one control at a time.

Slot CVD and Signal shaping

Core controls:

• `CVD Type:`
• `CVD Length:`
• `Signal Type:`
• `Signal Length:`

Each slot goes through two smoothing stages:

1. normalized raw participation becomes the slot CVD line
2. the slot CVD line becomes the slot Signal line

What usually helps:

• change `CVD Length:` and `Signal Length:` before you wander through all the family choices
• keep the family simple until the slot job already makes sense

What usually goes wrong:

changing both length and family at the same time, then not knowing which change actually altered the behavior

The pro MA menu

The indicator exposes 21 moving-average families for slot CVD smoothing, slot Signal smoothing, 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
• remember that `SWMA` behaves like a fixed short smoother and does not follow the same length intuition most traders expect
• if you are still learning the baseline, most of this menu can wait

Advanced family-specific controls

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

• `CVD ALMA Floor Offset?`
• `CVD ALMA Offset`
• `CVD ALMA Sigma`
• `CVD KAMA/FRAMA Fast`
• `CVD KAMA/FRAMA Slow`
• `CVD Jurik Phase`
• `CVD Jurik Power`
• `CVD Laguerre Alpha`
• `CVD VAMA Vol Length`
• `Signal ALMA Floor Offset?`
• `Signal ALMA Offset`
• `Signal ALMA Sigma`
• `Signal KAMA/FRAMA Fast`
• `Signal KAMA/FRAMA Slow`
• `Signal Jurik Phase`
• `Signal Jurik Power`
• `Signal Laguerre Alpha`
• `Signal VAMA Vol Length`

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
• the core length is not enough to get the behavior you need

Leave them alone when:

• you are still learning the baseline
• you are not sure whether the slot job itself is well chosen

Blend participation and alternate ticker context

Core controls:

• `Blended Weight:`
• `Optional Ticker:`

`Blended Weight:`

This controls how much influence the slot has in the blended CVD and blended Signal pair.

Use it when:

• one slot deserves more influence than another
• you want a slot visible or alertable without letting it shape the blend

Important boundary:

`0` weight removes the slot from the blend only. It can still plot, still alert, and still matter to all-slot agreement if it remains enabled.

`Optional Ticker:`

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

Use it when:

• you want outside-market context inside the same stack

Do not use it as:

• automatic confirmation
• a substitute for checking the outside market directly when the decision really matters

If you are new to the indicator, keep alternate-ticker slots visible at first and start them at modest or zero blend weight.

Global thresholds and blended display

Core controls:

• `Overbought Level`
• `Oversold Level`
• `Plot Blended CVD/Signal`
• `Blended Line Width:`

These controls only affect the summary layer and its visual references.

Use them when:

• you want threshold reference lines that fit your workflow
• you want the blended pair more or less visually prominent
• you want the blend hidden while you study the slot layer first

Important boundary:

Turning off `Plot Blended CVD/Signal` only hides the blended pair. It does not remove the blended calculations or the blended alert conditions.

Master smoothing

Core controls:

• `Enable Master Smoothing`
• `Master MA Type`
• `Master Length`
• `Master ALMA Floor Offset?`
• `Master ALMA Offset`
• `Master ALMA Sigma`
• `Master KAMA/FRAMA Fast`
• `Master KAMA/FRAMA Slow`
• `Master Jurik Phase`
• `Master Jurik Power`
• `Master Laguerre Alpha`
• `Master VAMA Vol Length`

Master smoothing is a final pass on the blended CVD and blended Signal pair after the weighted blend already exists.

Use it when:

• the slot design already makes sense
• you want the summary layer calmer without changing every slot

Do not use it when:

• the slot stack still feels vague
• you are hoping a smoother blend will rescue weak slot design

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

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
• most MA family changes
• most advanced family-specific 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. `Window Mode:` and `Window:`
5. `Pressure Sensitivity:` and `Wick Weight:`
6. `CVD Length:` and `Signal Length:`
7. MA family changes
8. `Blended Weight:`
9. `Optional Ticker:`
10. master smoothing

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

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