Quick Start

Use this page when you want the shortest correct first run.

The goal is not to build your final ten-slot workflow in one sitting. The goal is to get one clean stack on the chart, understand why it is valid, and leave with a baseline you can actually verify.

That matters here because this indicator can look organized before it is properly fitted to the chart. A clean first run keeps the early confidence honest.

You are done with this page when four things are true:

• the active slots are legal on the chart
• the stack is still small enough to explain
• the blend only reflects slots you meant to include
• you can verify what changed when you touch one control

Before you add the indicator

Check your chart timeframe first.

The shipped defaults enable:

• CVD 01 on 5
• CVD 02 on 15
• CVD 03 on 60

Slots 04 through 10 begin disabled.

Every enabled slot must use a timeframe at or above the chart timeframe. If your chart is above one of those enabled values, raise or disable that slot before you treat the runtime error like a product problem.

That first check matters because the first error here usually means mismatch, not malfunction.

Option A: use the shipped baseline as intended

Use this path when your chart timeframe is 5 minutes or lower.

1. Add Axiom CVD Osc Pro to the chart.
2. Confirm that you can see CVD 01, CVD 02, CVD 03, Blended CVD, and Blended Signal.
3. Confirm that slots 04 through 10 are still disabled.
4. Open the settings panel and confirm that On Bar Close? is still enabled on each active slot.
5. Check that the active readings stay inside the visible -100 to +100 boundaries.
6. Leave the default Session windows alone long enough to see a new daily reset marker print on the visible active slots.
7. Set one active slot's Blended Weight: to 0 for a moment and confirm that the slot can still exist while the blend changes without it.
8. Change the weight back so you return to the shipped baseline.

What you should understand before moving on:

• the default profile is a same-symbol 5 / 15 / 60 ladder
• each slot is a bounded participation oscillator, not a raw CVD line
• the blend is being shaped by slot weights rather than acting like its own source
• all active slots are still in confirmed mode

Option B: adapt the baseline to your chart first

Use this path when your chart timeframe is above 5 minutes, or when you already know the shipped ladder is not the one you want.

1. Add the indicator.
2. Open the settings panel immediately.
3. Compare the chart timeframe to every enabled slot's TimeFrame:.
4. Raise or disable any enabled slot that sits below the chart timeframe.
5. Confirm that each enabled slot's Lower TF Precision: is still lower than that slot's timeframe.
6. Confirm that each enabled slot's Window: is still at or above that slot's timeframe.
7. Leave Optional Ticker: blank on the active baseline until the same-symbol stack makes sense.
8. Leave master smoothing off while you are learning the baseline.
9. Read the chart once before you add alerts or more active slots.

This is usually the better path on higher chart timeframes. It teaches fit first instead of letting a bad first impression do the teaching for you.

Option C: add one deliberate fourth slot

Use this path only after the first three active slots already make sense.

1. Enable CVD 04.
2. Give it one job before you change anything else.

Good first jobs:

• a slower confirmation layer
• a Rolling contrast against a Session baseline
• an alternate-ticker context slot
• a visible diagnostic slot with Blended Weight: 0

3. Keep the new slot visible at first.
4. Check whether the stack still shares one trust posture or has now become mixed.
5. Stop there before you enable anything else.

If you cannot give the fourth slot one sentence of job description, leave it off for now.

The point of the fourth slot is not "more power." The point is learning what a new role does to the whole stack.

First sanity checks

Run these checks before you build workflows or alerts. They are quick, and each one teaches a rule you will need later.

If one of those checks surprises you, pause there. That is exactly the kind of misunderstanding this indicator can hide under a tidy pane.

A sensible first configuration

If you are learning the indicator, keep the first session plain:

• use no more than 3 active weighted slots
• keep all active weighted slots on the chart symbol
• keep active weighted slots in confirmed mode
• leave master smoothing off
• add alerts only after you can explain what each active slot is contributing

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 are any still live-forming?
• Which active slots are shaping the blend right now?
• What makes this a participation estimate instead of exchange-side delta?
• If you add one more slot, what job is that slot supposed to do?

If two or more of those answers still feel fuzzy, keep this page open and run the sanity checks again before you start tuning.

Once that version makes sense, move to MTF and Repainting, then Settings, then Visuals and Logic.