Quick Start

Quick Start

This page gets you from "I just added the indicator" to "I understand what I am looking at" in a single session. It covers the default setup, what normal looks like, and the first confusions that make new users think something is broken when it is not.

If you are coming from the Lite variant, the core concepts are the same. The differences that matter for first use are ten slots instead of three, per-slot Pressure Sensitivity and Wick Weight, and a larger MA library. The defaults are configured so the first three slots work out of the box — the remaining seven are disabled until you need them.

Step 1: Add the indicator

Add Axiom CVD Osc Pro to a chart. A 5-minute chart is a good starting point — it gives you enough bar resolution to see the default slots behave distinctly.

The indicator opens in its own pane below price. You should immediately see:

• Three colored oscillator lines — one for each of the three enabled slots. Slot 01 (5m) in teal, Slot 02 (15m) in aqua, Slot 03 (1h) in blue. Each line oscillates between roughly -100 and +100.

• A blended CVD line (lime when bullish, red when bearish) and a blended Signal line (gray), with a shaded fill between them.

• Reference lines — solid horizontal lines at +100 and -100 (hard boundaries), dashed lines at +70 and -70 (default overbought/oversold levels), and a solid line at zero.

• Vertical dashed lines in each slot's color, marking session boundaries where the CVD accumulation resets.

If you see an empty pane or a runtime error, jump to Troubleshooting.

Step 2: Confirm distinct behavior

The three default slots target different timeframes: 5m, 15m, and 1h. On a 5-minute chart, these should produce visibly different behavior:

• Slot 01 (5m) updates every chart bar. It is the noisiest line and responds most quickly to short-term pressure shifts.

• Slot 02 (15m) updates every third chart bar. It moves more slowly and ignores most of the bar-to-bar noise that the 5m slot picks up.

• Slot 03 (1h) updates every twelfth chart bar. It moves in deliberate steps and may appear to sit flat for long stretches. This is normal — it is waiting for the next hourly bar to close before updating.

What to check: If all three lines look nearly identical, something is likely misconfigured — most commonly, all three slots are set to the same timeframe. Open the settings panel and confirm that each slot has a different timeframe assigned.

Step 3: Read the basics

Each slot line changes color based on its own CVD-vs-Signal relationship:

• Brighter color = the slot's CVD is above its Signal (bullish regime)

• Dimmer color = the slot's CVD is below its Signal (bearish regime)

The blended CVD line changes color the same way — lime when it is above its blended Signal, red when below. The shaded fill between them makes the current regime easy to spot at a glance.

What the zero line means: A reading near zero does not mean "no volume." It means the estimated buying and selling pressure within the slot's active window are roughly balanced. Volume can be high while the net direction is flat.

What the boundaries mean: The -100 and +100 lines are hard limits set by the normalization. A reading near +100 means estimated net delta is at or near the top of the current window's range. It does not mean "maximum possible buying" — it means the current reading is as extended as anything seen in this window so far.

Step 4: Watch a session reset

All three default slots use Session mode with a daily window. When a new daily session starts, the CVD accumulation resets: the cumulative sum restarts from zero, and the normalization range starts building fresh.

You will see:

• All slot lines snap toward zero at the session boundary

• Vertical dashed lines appear at the reset point, one per slot, in each slot's color

• Readings immediately after the reset are based on very few bars — they may look extreme on modest volume because the normalization range is still narrow

This is normal, not a bug. A reading of +80 five bars into a new session is not the same evidence as +80 after 200 bars of data. The number looks the same. The confidence behind it is not.

The reason is structural: the normalization maps the current cumulative delta to a -100/+100 scale based on the range of delta values seen in the active window. After a reset, that range is built from just a few bars. One moderately directional bar can push the reading to +80 simply because the range is narrow — not because the pressure is strong. As more bars arrive, the range widens, the scale adjusts, and the reading settles to something more proportionate. Give the session 15-30 minutes before treating the readings as reliable context. If you need to act during the first few minutes, weigh the oscillator less than you would mid-session.

Step 5: First sanity checks

Run through these to confirm the indicator is behaving as expected:

1. Toggle On Bar Close. Open the settings for Slot 03 (1h). Find "On Bar Close?" — it should be ON by default. Turn it OFF and watch the 1h line. It should start updating every chart bar instead of stepping once per hour. Turn it back ON and watch it revert to stepping behavior. This confirms the repaint control is working. Leave it ON for now — see MTF and Repainting before using it off in practice.

1. Check a blend weight. Set Slot 01's Blended Weight to 0. The blended CVD line should shift to reflect only Slots 02 and 03. Set it back to 33.3.

1. Compare Session and Rolling. Switch Slot 01 from Session mode to Rolling Time mode. The vertical dashed reset markers for that slot should disappear, and the line should move more continuously instead of snapping to zero at session boundaries. Switch it back to Session when done.

What normal looks like

On a typical intraday session after 30+ minutes of data:

• The 5m slot line moves with some volatility, flipping regime occasionally

• The 15m slot line moves more smoothly, with fewer regime transitions

• The 1h slot line moves in broad steps with long stretches in one regime

• The blended line sits somewhere in the middle of the three, shifting smoothly

• During strong directional moves, all three slots tend to agree on direction — though the 5m slot often leads and the 1h slot lags

• During choppy or ranging periods, the 5m slot whipsaws while the higher-TF slots may hold a prior direction

If you see this general pattern, the indicator is working as intended with its defaults.

First traps

These are the confusions that come up most in the first session. They are not problems — they are the tool working as designed in ways that are not obvious until you have seen them once.

"The 1h slot barely moves." Because On Bar Close is ON and you are on a 5m chart, the 1h slot only updates when the hourly bar closes — once every 12 chart bars. Between those updates, the line holds flat. This is not lag or a bug. It is the cost of using confirmed data. If you want faster updates, you can turn On Bar Close off for that slot, but the values will repaint until the hourly bar closes.

"Everything jumped to zero at the same time." A session reset happened. All three default slots use a daily session window, so they reset at the same boundary. The oscillator did not crash — it started a fresh accumulation cycle. The readings will build back as the new session develops.

"The blended line does not match what I expect from the visible slots." Check whether any slots are hidden but still active. A slot with Hide Plot turned on still computes and still contributes to the blend at its full weight — you just cannot see its line. Also check that no disabled slots (4-10) have been accidentally enabled with unusual settings or weights. Open the settings panel and review the weight and enable status of each slot.

"The blended line is the most obvious thing in the pane — should I just watch that?" It is tempting because it looks like the final answer. It is not. The blended line is a weighted average of all enabled slots. When the slots agree, it reflects that agreement. When they disagree — and that disagreement is often the most valuable thing the oscillator can show you — the blend smooths it into a middling number that hides the conflict. From day one, practice watching the individual slot lines first, then checking the blend. See Visuals and Logic for how to read the relationship.

"Why are there so many settings I do not recognize?" Slots 4 through 10 are disabled by default. Each slot also has Power User parameters (ALMA Offset, KAMA Fast/Slow, Jurik Phase, etc.) that only activate when the corresponding MA type is selected for that slot's CVD or Signal smoothing. If you are using SMA for both, all of those parameters are inert. You can safely ignore them. See Settings for a full walkthrough of what activates when.

Where to go from here

You now have a working three-slot setup and an understanding of what the default behavior looks like. From here:

• To understand what each setting actually changes and how to make configuration decisions, go to Settings.

• To learn how to read the pane in more depth — what the colors encode, how to interpret slot disagreement, and what the blended line is really telling you — go to Visuals and Logic.

• To start building a workflow around the oscillator, including when to add more slots and how to think about cross-timeframe divergence, go to Workflows.

The defaults are a reasonable starting point, not an end state. The tool is built to be shaped around your process. But shape it one decision at a time — start with the three-slot defaults, understand what you are seeing, and add complexity only as your questions get more specific. A common mistake is to jump into the settings panel on day one and start enabling slots, changing MA types, and adjusting sensitivity. Resist that. Spend a few sessions watching the three default slots before you change anything. The patterns you notice — which slot leads, which lags, when they agree, when they diverge — are the foundation for every configuration decision you will make later.