Axiom Stoch Osc

Why this pane exists

Stacking stochastic panes across timeframes is one of the oldest habits in oscillator-based reading. It is also one of the easiest ways to lie to yourself. Three separate stoch indicators on three separate panes drift out of sync the second the market moves. A single higher-timeframe stoch repaints under you if its bar has not closed. "Three timeframes of stoch" said out loud sounds like three independent observations; on most configurations it is one measurement you sampled three times and called that agreement.

This pane collapses those problems onto one surface and makes each one a decision rather than an accident. Three slots, each living in its own timeframe context. K and D at both passes are your choices, not a library's. A weighted blend across the slots is its own line, clearly marked as a weighted average rather than as consensus. One global switch decides whether you want the confirmed reads or the live reads, and the switch does not hide its tradeoff. Ten alerts that fire on states, not on transitions, because you should know the difference.

The pane does not tell you what to do. It tells you what the stoch stack across your chosen timeframes is reporting, and it refuses to pretend any piece of that reading is more certain than it is.

The shape

A three-slot, multi-timeframe stochastic pane. Each slot carries its own smoothed K and its own D — lengths and MA families chosen by you at both passes — and the three slots feed a weighted blended K/D pair sitting in stoch's native 0..100 range. One global On Bar Close? switch controls repaint posture for all three slots. One optional master smoothing pass sits on top of the blend. Ten alerts in three groups. That is the shape.

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 Stoch 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 stochastic K itself.

This page covers Base. Use it when three stochastic context slots are enough and you do not need cross-asset tickers, per-slot repaint control, Power User MA blocks, or blended-line structure. Reach for CTX when ten-slot context breadth is the job. Reach for STR when you want the more advanced structure read around the blended stochastic and are willing to trade away five CTX slots to get it.

Who this is for

You already use stochastic. You are comfortable with the slow-stoch K/D convention and with reading 80 and 20 as zones on the pane, not as triggers. You have been burned at least once — either by three stacked stoch panes you could not keep synchronized while the market was moving, or by a single MTF stoch whose reading changed under you because the higher-timeframe bar had not closed yet. You are willing to spend a little time picking lengths and MA families you can defend, and you are allergic to "best settings" tables that pretend defaults are endpoints.

Who this is not for

If you want entry and exit arrows, this is not that tool. The pane reports state. It does not produce trade instructions. If you are new to stochastic and hoping for a first-principles introduction, the same answer applies — Base assumes the classical slow-stoch vocabulary and does not re-teach it. If you want per-slot repaint switches, outside-chart ticker slots, ten slots instead of three, or the wider Pro MA-library tunings, you are outside what this Base source exposes.

The two costliest misreads, named up front

Two things will sink a reader faster than any other part of this pane. They are worth naming in the first screen, before you touch a knob.

The alignment trap. Base exposes an All Stoch Slots Bullish alert and an All Stoch Slots Bearish alert. They sound like three independent votes converging on the same read. They are not, unless you have deliberately differentiated the slots across source, K length, and MA family. If the three slots share all of that and differ only by timeframe, the alignment alert is one measurement sampled at three cadences — it tracks trend persistence, not consensus, and it fires in long runs during persistent trends because that is what the underlying measurement is doing. Because Base has only three slots, a single misconfigured or unintended slot carries a third of the tally. The damage per slot is larger here than it is on a ten-slot pack. Treat the alignment alert as an instrument that is only as sharp as the differentiation you gave it.

The habit-transfer trap. Base is close enough to textbook slow stoch that a confident stoch reader can carry almost every old reflex intact and only be wrong on the margins that matter. Two user-chosen smoothing passes — not the library's defaults — shape what the numbers mean. A weighted blend across timeframes is a new structure on top. An optional master pass can add more lag if you enable it. Each slot's line color is driven by the K-vs-D relationship on that slot, not by the K value against 50, 80, or 20. A reader who skims the slot as "above midline, leaning bullish" without reading the color is throwing away the half of the information that actually tells the slot's K-vs-D story. The 80/20 fade reflex, carried over from single-timeframe stoch, does not transfer here as a trigger — those lines are zones on the display and nothing internal fires on them.

Both traps are walked in full on Limitations and Trust Boundaries. The alignment trap is reinforced inside Alerts and inside the three-slot anti-pattern in Workflows. The habit-transfer trap is reinforced inside Visuals and Logic through the color-before-value reading order. A reader who leaves this page with only those two misreads named has taken the most expensive thing Base has to teach.

What makes this different from plain stoch or a stoch-RSI

This is not a single-timeframe stoch. Three slots run in their own timeframe contexts, and their stochastic readings are combined by a weighted average you designed. This is also not a stoch-RSI-style rescaling. The stochastic transform here consumes price (or your chosen Source:), not an RSI series. There is no second normalization step outside the classical slow-stoch K/D cascade. for-the-geeks.md carries the full structural comparison if you want it; the short version is: same inner transform as plain stoch, two user-chosen smoothing passes like classical slow stoch, weighted blend across timeframes, optional master pass, and defensive clamps as final bounds.

How to read this pack

The pages are written to be walked in order on the first pass and returned to out of order in later sessions.

Set up:

• Quick Start — the shortest correct first use. Defaults, a first-bar sanity check, and the color-before-value reading order installed before your stoch reflex takes over.

• Settings — every input walked as a deliberate decision with a named cost. Short decision map up front.

Read:

• Visuals and Logic — the reading-order discipline, slot color as K-vs-D, the blend as a headline, saturation as context.

• Alerts — the ten conditions, what they confirm, what they deliberately do not confirm, and where the alignment caveat goes.

• MTF and Repainting — the global On Bar Close? switch in plain language, the slot-TF-at-or-above-chart-TF rule, a 1m verification you can run in a minute.

Work:

• Workflows — three named scenarios in identical scenario-card form. Each carries a setup, a reading routine, a failure mode, and an anti-pattern contrast.

Trust:

• Limitations and Trust Boundaries — the heaviest misread-prevention surface in the pack. Alignment trap first. Habit-transfer trap second. Saturation-as-signal third.

Verify:

• Troubleshooting — symptom-first, categorized into setup errors, misreads, and genuine limits so you learn to triage rather than memorize fixes.

• For the Geeks — the conceptual shape of the pipeline in ordered stages, with a comparison table against plain stoch, classical slow stoch, and a stoch-RSI-style rescaling. No formulas. No pseudocode.

If you only have two minutes before you need to use the pane, read Quick Start and the first section of Limitations and Trust Boundaries.