Quick Start

This page gets you from an empty chart to a working pane on the defaults, gives you a way to prove the tool is behaving, and installs a reading order robust enough that your existing RSI reflex does not quietly corrupt it on day two. Ten minutes of honest attention is enough. You do not have to touch a single input, and you should not on the first session.

What the defaults give you

Add the indicator to a 1-minute chart of a liquid instrument you know well. Liquid because thin symbols produce RSI hops that are hard to separate from tool behavior; familiar because you want the pane to be the new variable in the session, not the symbol.

On install, you get:

• Three slots enabled. RSI 01 at 5m in teal, RSI 02 at 15m in aqua, RSI 03 at 60m in blue.

• Every slot runs ta.rsi(close, 14), smooths that with an SMA of length 3 into the slot's RSI line, and smooths the RSI line with an SMA of length 3 into the slot's signal line. Every slot has a default blend weight of 33.3.

• A thicker blended pair on top — lime when the blended RSI sits above the blended signal, red when it sits below, with a translucent fill between the two that carries the regime color.

• Five reference lines. Green rail at 0, dashed gray at 30, solid gray at 50, dashed gray at 70, red rail at 100.

• Master smoothing off.

• On Bar Close? = true.

Step-by-step first look

1. Check the rails. The slot lines and the blended pair should sit between 0 and 100. The 30 and 70 dashes are reference zones; do not read them as triggers. Nothing in this tool fires an alert on either one.

2. Check the color on each slot. Full-tone color means the slot's RSI is above its own signal line. Faded color means the RSI is below the signal. The color is the slot's answer to one question: is the smoothed RSI currently leading or lagging its own slower smoothing? That is the question this pane is built to surface, and it is a different question from "is the RSI above 50?"

3. Check the blend. The bolder pair is lime/gray when the blended RSI leads the blended signal, red/gray when it trails. The tinted fill between them is the same lime or red at reduced opacity. The blend is a weighted average of the enabled slots you shaped; it is not a vote and it is not a consensus.

4. Give it history. The default 60m slot needs enough 60m bars for ta.rsi(close, 14) and the two 3-length smoothing passes to fill. Until raw RSI is available, the slot can be blank. After raw RSI appears, the code may use earlier stages of the pipeline while the MA passes warm up, so the line can be visible before the full smoothing cascade is mature. Scroll back, let TradingView load history, and do not grade the slow slot from a thin slice of fresh bars.

Two "looks broken but isn't" traps

These are the first-session traps. Naming them before they happen costs you nothing; missing them costs a session of misplaced blame.

Slot line at 55 with faded color. Your habit says "above 50, leaning up." The color is saying "yes, but the smoothed RSI just fell below its own smoothed signal — the directional evidence has flipped even though the value has not yet crossed your midline." That gap between value and color is often the most informative moment the pane offers. It is not a bug. It is the reading order the pane is built around.

Slot 03 moving intra-bar. If you flip On Bar Close? to off to try it, the 60m slot will visibly drift while the 60m bar is still open. That is the live higher-timeframe bar revising. When the 60m bar closes, the slot settles. Going back to on makes the slot wait for the close and report the previous confirmed 60m bar's values. The on-mode is slower and stable; the off-mode is earlier and revisable. Both modes are honest about what they report when you know which one you chose. MTF and Repainting walks this trade in full.

The reading order to keep

Read color before value. The color answers a binary question — is this slot's RSI above its own signal, or below — and that binary is the fast read. Value is the intensity behind the answer. A slot at 55 with full-tone color is a different story from the same 55 with faded color, and a slot at 72 with faded color is not a stronger version of that same story. Color first, value second, blend third, chart last.

If you invert that order — value first, color second — you will end up reading the pane as if it were a textbook RSI with a thicker line on top, and you will throw out half the information the tool was built to surface. Your RSI habit is not wrong; it is incomplete for this pane. The fix is a small order change, not a new skill.

A concrete test you can run on the first session: before you glance at any value, name the color of each slot and the color of the blend out loud. Only then read the values. If you catch yourself reading values before colors more than half the time, slow the scan down and repeat until color reaches your eye first. That is the discipline installing. When it is installed, you will not have to think about it, and the pane will start contributing to your read instead of competing with it.

Do not start here

These configurations look sensible and will teach you the wrong thing on a first session:

• Enabling all three slots at the defaults and reading alignment as breadth. Three slots with identical lengths, families, and source differ only by timeframe; the alignment is one measurement sampled at three cadences, not three opinions. The rest of the pack treats this as the costliest misread the tool can produce, so the first session is the worst place to let it take root.

• Enabling master smoothing because the blend looks choppy. A choppy blend is evidence about the slots disagreeing. Smoothing that away hides the disagreement, does not resolve it, and adds lag to every blend-based alert.

• Running On Bar Close? = false on a 60m slot without reading MTF and Repainting first. The intra-bar drift is correct behavior, but you want to understand it as a trade before you make it.

• Wiring a blend alert on the first session and reacting to it before the reading order is installed. The blend is a composite of slots you have not shaped yet; an alert on it will fire on a read you have not yet learned to audit.

Where to go next

• Still on the defaults, curious about what each knob changes — Settings.

• Want the color-first / value-second reading order in depth — Visuals and Logic.

• Ready to try the On Bar Close? toggle — MTF and Repainting.

• Want to wire alerts before using the tool in live sessions — Alerts.