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Every input on Axiom MA CTX, grouped by the lifecycle of a single slot and then by the blend. The inputs dialog presents controls by GUI group (`MA 01`, `MA 01 PU`, `MA 02`, and so on through `MA 10`, then `MA Blended...

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Settings

Every input on Axiom MA CTX, grouped by the lifecycle of a single slot and then by the blend. The inputs dialog presents controls by GUI group (MA 01, MA 01 PU, MA 02, and so on through MA 10, then MA Blended). This page follows the order you think in when you configure a slot: turn it on, point it at a source and timeframe, choose the smoothing, shape the trend read and the visuals, and only then touch the power-user tail.

Before you go further, read this once and do not forget it:

Length and Trend Length are two different lookbacks doing two different jobs. Length is the MA smoothing window — the number of bars the MA computes over. Trend Length is the bars-back comparison that colours the slot line and fires the per-slot trend alerts. Changing one never changes the other. A reader who confuses them tunes the colour without tuning the smoothing, or reshapes the smoothing and does not notice the trend read is still reading against an old comparison window.

If your line is the right shape but the wrong colour, the knob you want is Trend Length. If your line is the wrong shape, the knob you want is Length. The rest of this page assumes you have that straight.

Primary slot inputs

Every slot (MA 01 through MA 10) exposes the same primary controls. The table below lists each once; read each row as "for every slot."

Label	Type	Default	What it changes	When to change it	Misuse warning
`Enable MA NN`	bool	Slots 01–03 on, slots 04–10 off	Turns the slot on or off entirely. Disabled slots contribute nothing to plots, to the blend, or to alerts.	When you have a specific reason for adding this MA to your read — a timeframe you actually trade, a source you actually use, a related market you want in context.	Enabling slots "because they are there" clutters the chart. Every additional enabled slot is a decision you owe yourself a reason for.
`Hide MA NN Plot`	bool	false	Hides the slot's line on the chart. The slot is still computed, still contributes to the blend when its weight is non-zero, and still counts in the alignment alerts when it has a usable MA value.	When the slot's line crowds the chart but you still want the slot's voice in the blend or its participation in alerts.	This is the single most misread control on the indicator. Hidden is not excluded. If you want the slot out of the blend, set its weight to zero. If you want it out of alerts, disable it.
`Source:`	price series	`close`	The price series the slot reads from, inside the slot's own symbol and timeframe context.	When you want `hl2`, `hlc3`, `ohlc4`, or another series feeding the MA instead of close.	Feeding the slot from a non-standard series (a custom oscillator, a volume indicator) breaks the "standard MA" mental model. The computation will run; the interpretation will not.
`TimeFrame:`	timeframe string	01=`"5"`, 02=`"15"`, 03=`"60"`, others empty	Higher timeframe the slot is computed on. An empty string inherits the chart timeframe.	When you want explicit HTF context on this slot, or when you want to pin a slot to the chart timeframe regardless of which chart it is loaded on.	Must be greater than or equal to the chart timeframe. A slot timeframe below the chart timeframe raises a runtime error naming the slot. The guard is deliberate; see Troubleshooting.
`Optional Ticker:`	symbol string	`""`	Alternate symbol the slot reads from. Empty inherits the chart symbol.	When you want a related market's smoothed path drawn on this chart for context — ES on an ES-correlated stock, DXY when trading a currency-sensitive instrument, QQQ on SPY.	Rescaling preserves shape, not causality, and it only applies when the scale ratio is available. A cross-ticker line near chart price does not mean the other symbol leads; an off-scale line can mean the ratio was stale or unavailable. See For the Geeks and Limitations & Trust Boundaries.
`Length:`	int	20	The MA smoothing lookback. Drives the window the MA computes over.	When you want tighter or slower smoothing on this specific timeframe.	Very short lengths track noise; very long lengths lag heavily. There is no "right" length; there is only the length that matches the question you are asking.
`Type:`	enum (`maLib.MaType`)	`SMA`	The MA style for this slot. Routed through the Axiom MA Pro library.	When you want EMA, WMA, HMA, ALMA, KAMA, FRAMA, Jurik, Laguerre, VAMA, or any other type the library exposes.	Some types are driven by power-user parameters that are inert until the matching type is selected. Changing `Type:` without revisiting the PU group may produce a curve that no longer looks like the MA you meant.
`Trend Length:`	int	3 on slots 01–03, 2 on slots 04–10	Bars back the current MA is compared against to decide rising vs falling. Drives the slot's line colour and the per-slot trend alerts.	When you want a faster or slower trend read on this slot without changing its smoothing.	Do not confuse this with `Length`. A short `Trend Length` produces a flickery colour and noisy trend alerts; a long one produces a deliberate read that lags.
`Line Width:`	int	2	Visual thickness of the slot's line.	For readability when several slots are on.	Cosmetic. Does not affect math.
`Blended Weight:`	float	33.3 on slots 01–03, 0 on slots 04–10	How strongly the slot steers the blended MA. Weight zero means visible-but-silent — the slot's line draws on the chart; its voice does not enter the blend.	To give more voice to the timeframes and sources you actually trust for the question you are asking.	The blend divides by total weight. Equal weights across all enabled slots is a statement that every slot is equally informative — worth making on purpose, not by default.

Dependencies worth knowing before you configure

A slot's Enable must be on for any other slot input to have effect on the chart, on the blend, or on the alerts.
A slot's Source: is evaluated inside the slot's symbol and timeframe context. It is not the chart's live close.
A slot's TimeFrame: drives every other timing decision for the slot — when the line steps, when the HTF MA is considered closed, when the cross-ticker scale factor is computed.
A slot's Type: conditionally activates the matching power-user parameters. Parameters for other MA families are inert while this slot's type is not in use.
Hide MA NN Plot never means "exclude from math." Hidden slots steer the blend when their weights are non-zero and count in alignment alerts when they have usable MA values.
Blended Weight: zero means the slot is visible but silent in the blend. Separate from hide, separate from disable.

Power-user slot inputs

Every slot has a paired MA NN PU group. These controls govern the repaint posture for that slot and the parameters used by the less common MA types.

Label	Type	Default	Applies to	What it does	Misuse warning
`On Bar Close?`	bool	true	All types	ON returns the last confirmed value from the slot's timeframe. The line does not redraw once plotted. OFF returns the live value from the slot's timeframe. The line can drift inside the HTF bar until that bar closes.	OFF is not "faster ON." It is a different posture. Every slot whose `On Bar Close?` is OFF carries live HTF exposure. Flipping OFF globally turns the whole indicator into a fast but repaint-prone reader.
`ALMA Floor Offset?`	bool	false	ALMA	Whether ALMA's offset is floored to an integer before it is used.	Only relevant when carefully tuning ALMA. Rarely touched.
`ALMA Offset:`	float	0.85	ALMA	Centre position of the ALMA window.	Outside reasonable ranges the curve becomes erratic.
`ALMA Sigma:`	float	6.0	ALMA	Shape of the ALMA window.	Mis-tuned sigma produces a curve that no longer behaves like a smoothed MA.
`KAMA/FRAMA Fast:`	int	2	KAMA, FRAMA	Fast-length parameter. Paired with Slow.	Changing one of Fast / Slow without the other distorts the adaptive behaviour.
`KAMA/FRAMA Slow:`	int	30	KAMA, FRAMA	Slow-length parameter. Paired with Fast.	Same.
`Jurik Phase:`	int	0	Jurik	Phase parameter.	Extreme phase values cause lag or overshoot.
`Jurik Power:`	float	2.0	Jurik	Power parameter.	Same.
`Laguerre Alpha:`	float	0.5	Laguerre	Alpha parameter.	Readers importing alpha values from other Laguerre implementations may find the curve does not match. Alpha is normalised differently across libraries.
`VAMA Vol Length:`	int	20	VAMA	Volatility/deviation lookback used by the library's VAMA implementation.	Do not read this as a volume requirement. In this library, VAMA is driven by recent deviation behaviour around an EMA-style midline, not by TradingView volume.

The MA type palette — where to go for depth

Axiom MA CTX does not compute the MA types itself. Every slot routes Type: through the Axiom MA Pro library. The library owns the semantics of each family: what SMA, EMA, WMA, HMA, ALMA, KAMA, FRAMA, Jurik, Laguerre, VAMA, and the rest of the palette actually do, and how the power-user parameters affect each one.

If you want depth on a specific type — why KAMA reacts differently to volatility than EMA does, why Laguerre can be tuned to behave like a wide-window MA at a low alpha, why this library's VAMA adjusts around recent deviation behaviour — read the MA Pro library manual here: ../../libraries/axiom-ma-pro/README.md. This page deliberately does not re-teach the types. The CTX manual's job is to tell you how the slot structure uses the type, not to mirror the library's documentation.

Blended MA inputs

The blended MA has its own small group.

Label	Type	Default	What it does	Warning
`Enable Blended MA`	bool	true	Turns the blended line and its alerts on or off.	With the blend off, you are reading per-slot only. That is a legitimate choice. Make it on purpose.
`Hide Blended MA Plot`	bool	false	Hides the blended line without turning the math off.	Rare outside scripted alerts-only workflows.
`Line Width:`	int	3	Thickness of the blended line.	Cosmetic.

The blend also inherits per-slot weight decisions. The weight inputs live inside the per-slot primary groups, not inside the blended group. To change the blend's composition, change the slots' weights.

Cross-ticker controls — what the manual will and will not tell you

The Optional Ticker: input is a slot-level control. The scaling that results when you populate it is documented in Visuals & Logic (what the line looks like on the chart), MTF & Repainting (how the scale factor inherits the slot's repaint posture), For the Geeks (why the scaling is shaped the way it is), and Limitations & Trust Boundaries (what a scaled line does and does not imply).

One disclosure belongs here in settings, because it sits inside the inputs dialog and will confuse a careful reader otherwise. The source declares a tooltip describing three cross-ticker scaling modes — None, Anchored To Chart, Dynamic To Chart. The shipped build does not expose a selector for them. No input.enum consumes the tooltip. Every cross-ticker slot runs through the same single close-ratio scaling path described in the rest of this pack. If you went hunting for a scale-mode dropdown after reading the tooltip and could not find it, nothing is wrong with your installation. The full candour note lives in For the Geeks and a pointer lives in Troubleshooting.

Shipped defaults — defaults as defaults

The three-slot 5m / 15m / 60m configuration with 33.3 weights each exists for one reason: it renders cleanly on a generic 1-minute chart and shows a reader what the tool produces without overloading the surface. It is not a ranking. It is not optimised. It has not been fitted to any symbol, any regime, or any workflow. Three equal-weight intraday MA slots under On Bar Close? ON is a configuration the manual can teach from; it is not a configuration anyone is telling you to trade.

Every real reader's slot set will differ — different timeframes, lengths, types, sources, weights, and very likely a cross-ticker slot or two. The work of choosing those values belongs to the trader, because the answers are a function of the question being asked. A scalper on a single equity and a swing trader across three indices will both use this indicator. They will not have the same slot set. Neither of them should be using the defaults.

Treat the shipped values as the chart you reset to when your own configuration has drifted past what you can still read. Do not treat them as the chart you act from.

If a knob is not listed here

Nothing. Every input the shipped script exposes is listed above. If your inputs dialog shows a control not on this page, you are either on a different trim of the MA family or on a later script revision. Check the indicator's title in the chart legend; this manual covers the trim whose shorttitle is Axiom MA CTX.