Axiom Stoch Osc STR

Axiom Stoch Osc STR is a multi-slot, multi-timeframe, optionally multi-ticker stacked stochastic oscillator with a weighted blend and four optional blended structure features. It renders a read. It does not fire entries, it does not promise reversals, and it does not bury a directional call inside a pretty visual.

This page is the orientation layer. It tells you what the tool is, what the pane is showing, where to go next, and the small set of facts that have to be correctly in your head before you configure anything. If you only read one page, read this one slowly — the other pages assume you have already accepted what is stated here.

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. It keeps CTX-style per-slot control and the Extended MA surface, but it runs five slots instead of ten because the extra processing budget goes into structure on the blended stochastic K itself.

That trade is the point of this trim. You give up CTX's ten-slot breadth and gain four structure reads around the blended K: divergence against chart price, Keltner stretch, BBWP width regime, and Donchian range. STR sits at the end of the sequence; it is the structure version, not a reduced context version. It is the more advanced structure variant for readers who want to ask what the blended stochastic is doing relative to its own recent behavior without leaving the pane.

What the pane shows

The indicator renders in a separate sub-pane below price. Its vertical axis is the classical stochastic 0..100 range — not a rescaled projection, not a normalized lookalike, just the native range with hard clamps keeping everything inside it.

At defaults you see five things on the pane:

• A blend K line and blend D line with a red or lime fill between them. The fill flips color the instant K crosses D. This is the hero read.

• Reference guides at 0, 20, 50, 80, and 100. The 80 and 20 guides are user-movable and follow the classical stochastic convention, which is different from RSI's 70/30. The 50 midline is the geometric center of the range.

• Divergence triangles — lime up-triangles near the floor of the pane and red down-triangles near the ceiling. They print on the confirmation bar of a divergence, not on the original pivot bar, unless you have enabled the drawing-only Plot On Pivot shift. Either way, the alert fires when the divergence confirms, not when the pivot formed.

• BBWP columns at the bottom of the pane. They switch between aqua and blue at a threshold. They measure the width of the blended K line — not the width of price. A low BBWP column does not mean price is quiet.

• Donchian steplines wrapping the blend. They track the highest and lowest values the blended K has reached over the channel length. They mark where the blend is pressing its own range edges.

Three things the default pane does not show:

• Individual slot K plots are hidden. Three slots are active and contributing to the blend math; their separate lines are not drawn. This is intentional — the blend is the hero, and the slot plots are a diagnostic tool you enable when you want to see which slot is driving the blend.

• The Keltner envelope is off by default. Turn it on when you want the blend's stretch against its own recent range made explicit.

• Master smoothing is off by default. The blend is already smoothed at the slot level; a second smoothing pass adds lag in exchange for calmer plots.

Where to start

Open the pages in the order your question needs, not in the order they are listed. A short map:

• Quick start. Drop it on a chart, read the default pane in five minutes, know what is safe to act on and what is not.

• Settings. Every input, ranked by how much it changes the read. Tier A changes the pane. Tier C is cosmetic. Read Tier A before you touch anything.

• Visuals and logic. What makes the lines move, in what order to read them, and the stochastic-habit corrections you probably need before the structure features make sense.

• Alerts. All sixteen alert conditions, with honest timing, wiring tips, and one load-bearing disclosure about the alignment alerts below.

• MTF and repainting. Per-slot On Bar Close?, the safe HTF pattern, and the mixed-posture failure mode that per-slot control introduces.

• Limitations and trust boundaries. Where STR stops being an instrument and becomes noise if you over-trust it.

• Workflows. Three read patterns a committed trader can actually run, and three anti-patterns named plainly.

• Troubleshooting. Symptom-to-cause rows, not generic advice.

• For the geeks. The mechanical picture — pipeline, blend, structure features — in plain math and without reproducible internals.

A few things to know before you configure

A handful of facts sit under every page in this pack. Knowing them up front saves the second-read-through.

The blend is a weighted mean, not a sum. Scaling every slot weight by the same factor produces the same blend. A slot with weight zero still runs, still plots if its plot is not hidden, and still drives its own per-slot alerts — but contributes nothing to the blend. If you want a slot fully out of the blend math, set its Enable toggle to off. Weight zero and hide plot are both visibility or contribution controls, not kill switches.

The four structure features read the same blended K. Divergence, Keltner, BBWP, and Donchian all see the same series after master smoothing. When a divergence triangle prints and the blend is also near a Keltner band and the BBWP has just moved, that is one line agreeing with itself by construction. It is not four independent witnesses. The visuals-and-logic page dwells on this; every downstream page respects it.

Per-slot On Bar Close? is a trade-off, not a pure upgrade over Base. You gain finer control. You also gain a failure mode: an HTF slot set to off and chart-TF slots set to on produce a blend that mixes confirmed and live pieces. The mtf-and-repainting page walks through what that mix looks like and how to spot it.

The two alignment alerts (All Stoch Slots Bullish and All Stoch Slots Bearish) cannot fire when slot 05 is enabled. This is an upstream behavior in the current alignment counter. The manual discloses it wherever the alerts come up. If your system depends on these alerts, keep slot 05 disabled, or combine the per-slot alerts externally and build alignment yourself. The alerts page, the troubleshooting page, and the limitations page all carry the disclosure; none of them softens it.

Divergence is a descriptor of a prior pivot, not a call on the next bar. A confirmed bullish divergence is a particular geometric pairing between two chart-price pivot lows and two blended-K readings at the corresponding offsets. That pairing is real. It does not tell you what price does next. Every page that mentions divergence treats it as a question worth asking, never as a trigger.

How this pack is written

A few ground rules the other pages follow. Knowing them will save you a second read-through when the phrasing starts to feel unusually pointed.

• No ranked recommendations. You will not find "best settings for crypto" or "ideal lookback for scalping." Those would be marketing claims dressed up as teaching. Every input in settings.md is presented as a tradeoff — push this dial this direction, expect this cost — because recommending a single configuration would override the tuning choices that are yours to make.

• Failure modes live inside the feature description. When a dial has a sharp edge, the warning is in the paragraph that introduces the dial, not relegated to a footnote you might skim past. The alignment-alert caveat is on the alerts page in the paragraph about the alignment alerts. The mixed-posture failure mode is on the MTF page in the section about per-slot On Bar Close?. Anywhere a feature can mislead a careful reader, that possibility is named beside the feature.

• Verification is taught, not assumed. Every substantial claim in the pack is paired with something you can check on your own chart — toggling an input, hovering a bar, unhiding a slot. Trust is earned by verification, not by tone. The pages call these checks out explicitly where they fit.

• Depth over brevity. The pack is long because the reader we are writing for would rather study something substantial once than skim something breezy five times. If a section on this indicator feels longer than you expected, that is the intent, not overhead.

Where to go next: Quick start for the first-session read, Visuals and logic for the mental model, Alerts for the sixteen alerts and the alignment disclosure, Limitations and trust boundaries for where the instrument stops and your judgment starts.