Settings

This page is organized by decision role, not by the order the inputs appear in code. That matters here. A long settings list can make the indicator feel more controllable than it actually is. The safer approach is to change one setting family at a time, confirm what moved, and only then decide whether the change belongs in your workflow. If you are still learning the stack, keep this order:

1. slot participation
2. slot context
3. MACD construction
4. weighting and display
5. timing
6. smoothing and advanced MA behavior

The three slot questions to keep separate

Every slot has three different jobs the UI can change: - Is the slot enabled? - Is the slot visible? - Is the slot contributing to the blend? Those are not the same action.

If you remember only one thing from this page, remember that table. Why this matters: a lot of avoidable confusion with this indicator comes from treating those three jobs like one control. When that happens, the pane can look cleaner while the logic underneath it is doing something different than you think.

1. Slot participation and visibility

Use these controls when you are deciding which contexts belong in the stack at all.

Best first-use posture:

• disable a slot when you want it gone
• hide a slot only when you still want its logic
• leave line widths modest until the stack itself is stable

Quick check after a change:

• If you hide a slot, ask whether it still matters to alerts or alignment.
• If you disable a slot, confirm the blend and alignment both changed the way you expected.

2. Slot context

These controls decide what each slot is actually reading.

Two working rules help here:

• Learn the same-symbol baseline first.
• Add alternate-symbol context only after the slot ladder already makes sense on the chart symbol.

Quick check after a change:

• If you changed TimeFrame:, confirm the slot is still legal on the chart.
• If you changed Optional Ticker:, ask whether the new slot is adding usable context or only a better story.

3. MACD construction

These controls shape how each slot builds its MACD read before normalization.

The lite MA menu includes:

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

Treat those as response profiles, not a ranking from simple to superior.

Quick check after a change:

• Change one MACD construction input at a time.
• Confirm whether you changed one slot's behavior or the whole character of the stack.
• If you cannot explain why the new construction is better for the slot's job, revert it and isolate the decision.

4. Normalization and thresholds

These controls shape how aggressively the bounded oscillator responds and where the tool marks stretch.

If you want a safe first pass, leave these at default until you can already explain one slot and one blend. Quick check after a change:

• If you move ATR Sensitivity, confirm whether the stack is reaching the outer zone sooner rather than assuming it became more accurate.
• If you move threshold lines, verify whether they are helping your workflow or only making the pane look more decisive.

5. Blending and display

These controls decide how the summary layer is shown and how strongly each slot shapes it.

The clean mental model is:

• slots tell you the ingredients
• blend tells you the weighted summary
• alignment tells you whether enabled slots agree

Those are related. They are not interchangeable. Quick check after a change:

• If you changed a weight, compare the blend before and after.
• If you hid a blended visual, remember that hiding the picture is not the same as removing the logic.

6. Timing and shared advanced MA controls

This indicator keeps timing and ALMA configuration in the shared control section because they apply across the stack.

The important trust note is simple: On Bar Close? does not change one slot. It changes the timing posture of the whole stack. Quick check after a change:

• Toggle On Bar Close? once and confirm every higher-timeframe slot is now being read with the new posture.
• Only touch the ALMA controls if an ALMA-based MA is actually selected somewhere in the stack.

7. Master smoothing

Master smoothing happens after the blended summary already exists.

Use this only after you already trust the unsmoothed blend. Otherwise you are calming a summary you do not fully understand yet. Quick check after a change:

• Compare the smoothed blend to the unsmoothed blend over the same bars.
• If the smoothed version only feels nicer but tells you less about what the slots are doing, turn it back off.

Safe change order

If you want to customize without losing the plot, use this order:

1. make the slot ladder legal on the chart
2. confirm the same-symbol baseline
3. change one slot timeframe or one slot weight
4. verify what moved
5. only then touch sensitivity, MA families, or master smoothing
6. add Optional Ticker: last

That order is slower than free-form tweaking. It is also much easier to live with later because you can still explain the stack back to yourself.

Fast verification after any settings change

After changing any setting family, answer these three questions:

1. What exactly changed on the pane?
2. Which part of the stack moved: one slot, the blend, or the whole timing posture?
3. Did the change increase clarity, or did it only make the chart look smoother or busier?

If the answer to the second question is fuzzy, undo the change and isolate it again.

Visual placeholder: Settings-panel walkthrough with callouts on Enable, Hide MACD NN Plot, Blended Weight:, TimeFrame:, Optional Ticker:, On Bar Close?, and the master smoothing controls.