Axiom MA Osc CTX

A bounded 0..100 pane that measures how far price has stretched from a curated set of moving-average baselines. Up to ten slots, each with its own source, timeframe, MA family, slow smoothing, and optional cross-symbol. Every enabled slot with a non-zero weight contributes to one blended fast/slow pair at the top of the pane.

Where this version sits

Axiom indicator families use a Base -> CTX -> STR progression when the full set exists. Base is the free, focused version: three context slots, chart-symbol only, limited filtering through the MA surface, and one global bar-close posture. CTX expands that same MA Osc logic into broader context: up to ten slots, per-slot symbol and timing control, and the larger Extended MA surface. STR is the structure expansion at the end of the series: CTX-style per-slot controls with five slots instead of ten because the extra processing budget goes into structure on the blended MA oscillator itself.

This page covers CTX. Use it when ten-slot context breadth is the job: more MA Osc slots, more per-slot control, optional cross-symbol studies, and more room to curate the blend. CTX is Base expanded for context; it is not the final structure surface. Reach for STR when you want Keltner, BBWP, Donchian, and divergence wrapped around the blended oscillator and are willing to trade away five CTX slots to get that structure.

Why this indicator exists

Most MA-based oscillators fail in one of two directions. They either flatten the math until the pane looks clean — hiding repaint, hiding cross-asset surprises, hiding how the reading is being scaled — or they pile on enough machinery that the user ends up trusting a number without being able to inspect where it came from. Either way, the reader is left with a pane that looks honest and is not.

CTX is built for the reader who wants the workbench version of this tool and is willing to maintain it. Multi-timeframe on every slot. Optional cross-symbol on every slot. A weighted blend that you compose yourself. An explicit repaint switch you can leave on, turn off deliberately, and explain to yourself either way. It assumes you would rather spend an afternoon learning the mechanics than commit real money to a reading you cannot audit.

Read this first

The number in the pane is a stretch reading. It is not a momentum reading and it is not a trend reading. A slot's fast line rises because its chosen source has pulled further from its baseline MA, measured in ATR units of that slot's own recent volatility, and then pushed through a bounded curve that keeps the whole thing inside 0..100. Large moves on a quiet instrument and moderate moves on a violent one can print similar numbers. The bounded mapping buys cross-instrument comparability; it costs you detail near the edges once the reading saturates. Treat the pane like a depth gauge with a ceiling, not a speedometer.

Color on a slot line comes from whether its fast value currently sits above or below its own slow value, which is a short smoothing of the fast read on the same slot. The blend carries a fast and a slow of its own, colored the same way, built from a weighted combination of the slots you chose to include. The regime flips that matter are fast-vs-slow crosses, not touches of the 30 or 70 reference lines.

Who this is for

• Readers already working a multi-timeframe MA workflow who are tired of eyeballing price-to-MA distance across three windows.

• Readers who want to curate which timeframes and symbols vote, at what weight, and who expect the cost of each choice to be named in the docs instead of hidden behind a preset.

• Readers who accept that ten slots is a workbench, not a preset, and will configure it deliberately instead of enabling everything and calling the result confirmation.

Who this is not for

• Readers looking for a buy/sell service. Nothing in this pane is a trade trigger. The alignment conditions are the most seductive miss in that direction — see Limitations & Trust Boundaries before you route them anywhere.

• Readers who want one number to decide for them. The blend is a summary of slots that were already summaries. Use it the way you would use any summary — as an anchor for questions, not the last word.

• Readers who want "best settings." The defaults ship so the pane loads cleanly and teaches you how it behaves. They are not a configuration ready for any instrument, timeframe, or workflow.

The one trust boundary you need up front

"All slots bullish" and "all slots bearish" are the two most dangerous alerts in this family. They report a state of your configuration, not a census of independent evidence. If three enabled slots share a close source, similar lengths, and stacked timeframes from the same family, agreement across them is roughly one observation repeated. The same logic applies at ten slots. Alignment will feel like breadth. It is not breadth. Breadth is a claim about independent observations; the alignment alerts do not measure independence. Limitations & Trust Boundaries opens with this, expands it with a fix, and earns this warning the weight it is asking for.

Where to go next

• Never loaded it before: Quick Start runs the shipped defaults on a 1m chart and names the two patterns that catch first-time readers.

• Already on the chart and configuring: Settings walks every knob as a decision and names what each knob costs you.

• Need to understand the plot: Visuals & Logic builds the stretch mental model before enumerating the visual grammar.

• Unsure what a higher-timeframe slot is really doing on the current bar: MTF & Repainting is the repaint page, with a verification you can run in five minutes.

• An alert just fired: Alerts lists all twenty-four conditions and what each does and does not prove.

• Post-mortem or stress reading: Limitations & Trust Boundaries and Troubleshooting.

• Want the shape of the mechanic without a recipe: For the Geeks.

• Named configurations you can actually run: Workflows.

If a page in this pack disagrees with the shipped script, the script is the source of truth and the manual is wrong. Report it. The next revision closes the gap.