Quick Start

This page is about reaching one correct first run, not about building the most customized stack you can imagine. The job on this page is narrower than optimization: get one legal slot ladder on the chart, confirm what the pane is showing, and leave with a baseline you can explain. That makes every later change safer.

Why this matters: most early confusion with this indicator does not come from installation. It comes from getting the pane to "work" before you can say what is confirmed, what the centered scale is doing, and which slots are shaping the blend.

If you only remember one thing from this page, let it be this: first build a legal same-symbol baseline in confirmed mode, then customize from something you already trust.

Pick one path before you start

- If your chart timeframe is 5m or lower, use Option A. - If your chart timeframe is above 5m, use Option B. Do not mix both paths on the first pass. Reach one stable result first.

For this first run, leave these alone unless the page tells you otherwise:

• Optional Ticker:

• Enable Master Smoothing

• ALMA Floor Offset?, ALMA Offset:, and ALMA Sigma:

• turning On Bar Close? off

Check this before you add the indicator

Look at the chart timeframe before anything else.

The default stack enables:

• Stoch 01 on 5

• Stoch 02 on 15

• Stoch 03 on 60

Every enabled slot must stay at or above the chart timeframe. If the chart is above one of those slot values, fix that conflict before you expect the script to run normally.

This is the first verification step because a runtime error is not market insight. It is only the script telling you the ladder does not fit the chart yet.

Option A: use the default stack as intended

Use this path when your chart timeframe is 5m or lower.

1. Add Axiom Stoch Osc Lite to the chart.

2. Confirm the pane shows three slot K lines and one blended K/D pair.

3. Open settings and confirm On Bar Close? is enabled.

4. Confirm the slot TimeFrame: values are still 5, 15, and 60.

5. Leave every Optional Ticker: blank.

6. Keep the default 33.3 Blended Weight: on each slot.

7. Leave Plot Blended K/D enabled and Enable Master Smoothing disabled.

What you should understand before moving on:

• the first view is a same-symbol three-slot stochastic ladder

• the slot D lines are still working internally even though only slot K is plotted

• the blended K/D pair is summarizing the current stack, not inventing a fourth opinion

• the whole stack is currently using confirmed higher-timeframe values

• the goal of the first run is clarity, not a cleverer preset

Option B: adapt the stack to your chart first

Use this path when your chart timeframe is above 5m, or when you already know the shipped ladder does not fit the chart you are using.

1. Add the indicator.

2. Open settings immediately.

3. Compare every enabled slot TimeFrame: to the chart timeframe.

4. Raise any conflicting slot timeframe, or disable that slot.

5. Confirm the runtime error is gone.

6. Leave On Bar Close? enabled while you learn the stack.

7. Leave every Optional Ticker: blank on the first pass.

8. Keep at least one enabled slot with a positive Blended Weight: so the blend can still exist.

That slower setup is better than forcing the factory ladder onto a chart it does not fit. The point is not to preserve the defaults. The point is to reach one legal stack you can read honestly before the tuning starts.

First sanity checks

Run these checks before you build alerts or workflows around the pane.

If one of those checks surprises you, pause there. That is exactly the kind of confusion this page is trying to catch early.

The checks are intentionally small. They isolate one behavior at a time so you do not need to guess what changed.

A sensible first configuration

Keep the first session narrow:

• use the chart symbol in every slot

• leave On Bar Close? on

• leave master smoothing off

• keep all active weights positive

• keep the default SMA smoothing surface before mixing MA families

• add alerts only after you can explain what each slot is contributing

The shortest first verification routine

1. Confirm the pane stays inside the 100 / 0 / -100 structure.

2. Confirm each visible slot line changes tint when its K line moves above or below its internal D line.

3. Confirm the blended pair changes when you change one slot weight.

4. Confirm the blend still exists after you restore that weight.

5. Confirm the alert list includes slot alerts, blended alerts, threshold alerts, midpoint alerts, and full-stack alignment alerts.

If those five checks pass, you have a usable baseline. If one check fails, do not compensate with more settings. Go back to the point that failed and make it explainable first.

Before you move on

You are ready for the next page when you can answer these without guessing:

• Which enabled slot has the lowest timeframe on your chart?

• Is the stack confirmed or still forming right now?

• Which slots are shaping the blend, and which ones are only there for local context?

• Are you reading a centered stochastic stack, or are you still carrying plain textbook stochastic assumptions into the pane?

If those answers are still fuzzy, do not optimize the stack yet. Go to MTF and Repainting, then come back. The safest next step is almost always a better explanation, not another setting change.

Visual placeholder: Settings capture showing the default 5 / 15 / 60 slot ladder, the three slot groups, and the single global On Bar Close? control highlighted.