Quick Start

This page is about the shortest correct first run, not the most ambitious stack you could build later. The goal is simple: get one legal MACD stack on the chart, confirm what is shaping the pane, and leave with a baseline you can explain. That protects you from building trust on top of a stack that only looks convincing because it is busy. If you do this page well, later customization gets cheaper. If you skip it, later customization usually becomes harder to trust.

What a successful first run proves

Before you think about better workflows or better settings, this page should help you prove three smaller things:

• every enabled slot is legal on the chart you are using
• the active slots are following one timing posture you can name
• the blend is summarizing slots you can still explain one by one

Choose one path before you start

Use Option A if your chart timeframe is 5m or lower. Use Option B if your chart timeframe is above 5m.

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

• Optional Ticker:
• slots 04 through 10
• Enable Master Smoothing
• advanced MA-family controls
• mixed confirmed and live-forming timing

Check this before you add the indicator

Look at the chart timeframe first.

The shipped baseline 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 values, fix that conflict before you expect the script to behave normally.

The second hard rule is simpler:

• Fast Length: has to stay below Slow Length: on every enabled slot

Most first-run problems come from one of those two rules, not from the indicator failing silently. If either rule is broken, stop there first. More settings will not rescue an illegal or malformed slot.

Option A: use the shipped ladder as intended

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

1. Add Axiom MACD Osc Pro to the chart.
2. Confirm the pane shows three slot lines, the blended Fast and Slow pair, the blended histogram, and the 100 / 0 / -100 structure with overbought and oversold rails.
3. Open settings and confirm MACD 01, MACD 02, and MACD 03 are enabled while MACD 04 through MACD 10 are still off.
4. Confirm the first three slot TimeFrame: values are 5, 15, and 60.
5. Keep Source: on close, Fast Length: on 12, Slow Length: on 26, and Signal Length: on 9.
6. Keep MACD MA Type: and Signal MA Type: on EMA.
7. Keep Blended Weight: on the first three slots at 33.3.
8. Confirm On Bar Close? is enabled on each active slot.
9. Leave Optional Ticker: blank everywhere.
10. Leave Enable Master Smoothing off.

What you should understand before moving on:

• the first view is a same-symbol three-slot ladder
• each visible slot line is the slot Fast side, not the full internal pair
• the blended read is summarizing the active weighted slots, not inventing a fourth independent opinion
• the active slots are all in confirmed mode unless you change them

Option B: adapt the ladder 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 any runtime error is gone.
6. Keep On Bar Close? enabled on the active slots while you learn the stack.
7. Keep all active slots on the chart symbol for now.
8. Keep at least one active slot with non-zero Blended Weight: so the blended read still exists.

That slower start is better than forcing the default ladder onto a chart it does not fit. Factory values are only useful when they still produce an honest first read on the chart in front of you.

First sanity checks

Run these before you build alerts, habits, or opinions around the pane.

If one of those checks surprises you, stay with that one until it stops feeling slippery. That is usually where later confusion would have started. The safest habit is to fail one check at a time. Fix it, rerun the check, and only then move forward.

A sensible first configuration

Keep the first session narrow:

• use the chart symbol in every active slot
• keep only the first three slots enabled
• keep On Bar Close? on for each active slot
• leave master smoothing off
• keep all active weights positive
• use one MA family across the starting ladder before you mix styles
• add alerts only after you can explain what each active slot is contributing

The shortest first verification routine

1. Confirm the pane stays inside the bounded oscillator range.
2. Confirm each active slot changes color when its Fast side moves above or below its internal Slow side.
3. Confirm the blended Fast and Slow pair change when you change one active slot weight.
4. Confirm the blended histogram reacts around the zero line as the blend changes.
5. Confirm the behavior returns when you set that weight back where it started.

If those checks pass, you have a usable baseline. If one fails, do not compensate by adding 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 active slot has the lowest timeframe on this chart?
• Which active slots are confirmed, and which are live-forming?
• Which active slots are shaping the blend right now?
• Would the blend still exist if you set every active slot weight to 0?

If those answers still feel fuzzy, go to MTF and Repainting next, then come back.

If they feel clear, you have earned a usable baseline. Keep it intact long enough to learn from it before you widen the stack.

Visual placeholder: Settings capture showing the default 5 / 15 / 60 ladder, the enabled-state toggles for the first three slots, and one duplicated slot pair where only On Bar Close? differs.