Settings

This page explains the controls in the order most traders actually need them, not in the order the code happens to declare them.

The indicator repeats one slot model three times. Once you understand what one slot is deciding, the rest of the stack becomes much easier to shape on purpose.

Why this matters: the settings are flexible enough to help you build a stack you actually own. They are also flexible enough to let one innocent-looking change alter slot participation, timing posture, and summary behavior at the same time.

If you feel overloaded on a first read, ignore four things for now:

• Optional Ticker:
• uneven Blended Weight: mixes
• Enable Master Smoothing
• the global ALMA controls

Get the same-symbol stack working first. Those extras make more sense once the base pane already feels predictable.

One practical rule will save you trouble on this page: change one setting family, then verify what changed before you move to the next one.

Start with the repeated slot model

Every slot answers the same questions:

• Is this slot active?
• What symbol and timeframe is it reading?
• How is raw stochastic being built and smoothed into slot K?
• How is slot D being built behind the scenes?
• How much should this slot influence the blended pair?

That is enough flexibility to build something useful. It is also enough flexibility to create confusion quickly if you change too many things at once.

If you are under chart pressure, stay inside three questions first:

• Is the slot active?
• What context is it reading?
• Is it shaping the blend?

The first distinction to keep straight

Before you change anything else, keep these three states separate:

If that distinction is blurry, every later setting change gets harder to interpret.

That is why this table comes before the deeper controls. If you cannot separate existence, visibility, and blend participation, the rest of the menu will feel clearer than it really is.

Slot controls that decide whether the slot exists

If a slot is hidden but still enabled, it can still affect:

• the blended pair if its weight is above 0
• slot alerts
• full-stack alignment

Slot controls that decide what the slot reads

One hard rule lives here: every enabled slot timeframe must stay at or above the chart timeframe.

If the script errors on first load, this is the first section to inspect.

Treat that error as an instruction, not a mystery. The stack is telling you the slot ladder needs to fit the chart before anything else can be trusted.

Slot controls that shape stochastic construction

The key mental model:

• raw stochastic feeds slot K
• slot K is the visible slot line
• slot D still exists even though it is not plotted
• slot color and slot bullish or bearish state come from K versus D

If you lose that mental model, the color changes start to feel magical. They are not. They are only reporting a relationship you cannot currently see.

Supported MA families

The lite MA surface available to K Type:, D Type:, and Master MA Type includes:

• SMA
• EMA
• RMA
• WMA
• VWMA
• HMA
• ALMA
• SWMA

You do not need to mix several MA families on the first stack to get value from the tool. In most cases, one family across the stack teaches more than a menu of mixed styles.

Threshold and display controls

The threshold lines are useful because they mark stretched conditions inside this tool's centered scale. They do not settle whether price must reverse there.

That boundary matters most when the chart is moving fast. A stretched reading can be important without being enough.

Blend influence

Use this table as the reset when the pane looks cleaner than the logic underneath it actually is:

Return to this table any time the pane feels contradictory. In practice, most confusion in this indicator traces back to one of these three questions.

Master smoothing controls

Master smoothing does not change the slot K lines. It only changes the blended pair after the raw blend already exists.

Global timing and ALMA controls

These inputs affect the whole stack rather than one slot at a time.

On Bar Close?

Default: On

This is the main timing and trust control in the indicator.

• On: the stack uses confirmed higher-timeframe values
• Off: the stack can follow the still-forming higher-timeframe value

In this build, the switch is global. One change affects every slot, the blended pair, and every alert surface built on those values.

If you want the safer first learning path, leave it on and read MTF and Repainting before experimenting.

ALMA Floor Offset?, ALMA Offset:, ALMA Sigma:

Defaults:

• ALMA Floor Offset?: Off
• ALMA Offset:: 0.85
• ALMA Sigma:: 6.0

These only matter when any selected MA family is ALMA.

They are global in this build. If two slots and the master smoother all use ALMA, they all inherit the same ALMA tuning values.

If nothing in your stack uses ALMA, leave these alone without guilt. Untouched is the correct setting when the feature is not active.

Default profile at a glance

A practical order for changing settings

If you feel overloaded, change settings in this order:

1. fix timeframe compatibility
2. decide whether each slot should exist at all
3. keep all slots on the chart symbol until the base stack makes sense
4. choose K Length:
5. adjust K Smoothing: and K Type:
6. adjust D Length: and D Type:
7. adjust Blended Weight:
8. move threshold lines only if your workflow needs different review zones
9. add master smoothing last, if you still want it
10. test mixed-symbol use only after the same-symbol stack feels boring in a good way
11. test live-forming timing only after confirmed timing is already clear

That order protects comprehension. It also makes it much easier to tell what actually caused a behavior change.

After each step, run one verification question before touching the next setting family:

• What changed on the chart?
• What stayed the same?
• Can I explain why?

Two setting mistakes worth catching early

All active weights set to 0

If every active slot weight is 0, the blended pair stops being a useful summary. The slots may still be doing work, but the blend no longer has meaningful contributors.

Turning on master smoothing too early

Master smoothing can make the blend look calmer before you understand whether the calmness is coming from better structure or simply more lag.

That is why it belongs late in the tuning order, not early.

Before you leave this page

You should be able to answer these questions without guessing:

• Which controls change whether a slot exists, whether it is visible, and whether it influences the blend?
• Which controls shape slot K versus slot D?
• Which controls affect the whole stack instead of one slot?

If that feels clear, go to Visuals and Logic next. If the timing switch still feels slippery, go to MTF and Repainting first.

Visual placeholder: Settings panel capture with one slot group annotated for Enable, Hide Stoch Plot, Source:, TimeFrame:, K Length:, K Smoothing:, D Length:, Blended Weight:, and Optional Ticker:, plus a second callout showing the threshold, master smoothing, and global timing controls.