The system watches for a real change in trend and marks it with a graded house on price. It does not react to one strong bar. It waits until several bars of one-way pushing pile up, so it stays quiet in chop and still confirms a real turn fast. Three layers work together: the house is the decision, Pressure and Momentum only tell you whether to trust it.
| Layer | Question it answers | Where it lives |
|---|---|---|
| Signal | Buy, sell, get ready, or stop out | Houses, triangles, X on the price chart |
| Pressure | Are buyers or sellers in control right now | Middle panel (histogram) |
| Momentum | Is the trend building or fading | Bottom panel (wave) |
The houses are the trigger. The two lower panels are confirmation, never the trigger.
| Mark | Name | Means | Your move |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | Green house A/B/C | Confirmed BUY, trend turning up | Go long, size to the letter |
| B | Blue house A/B/C | Confirmed SELL, trend turning down | Trim, hedge, or short |
| Yellow triangle up | Bottom may be forming | Get ready, do NOT act yet | |
| Salmon triangle down | Top may be forming, caution | Tighten stops, no new longs | |
| ✕ | Red X | A signal was proven wrong | Stop out of that trade |
| Orange square | A signal went nowhere in 4 bars | Move on, no follow-through |
A house prints only on the close of its bar (no repaint). It fails only if price closes back beyond its own trigger bar's high or low, or the opposite house fires. The X can never land on the same bar as the house, which is also exactly where you set your stop.
A, B, C all mean the same direction. The letter is how much evidence stacked up, scored out of six factors (base depth, stretch, energy of the move, no recent opposite signal, momentum turning your way, volume agreeing). Hover any house for its full math.
| Letter | Meaning | How to bet |
|---|---|---|
| A | Everything lined up | Full size |
| B | Strong, one factor soft | Normal size |
| C | Barely qualified (drawn faded) | Small, or note only |
The two thin grey lines are the reference band. The fill is the regime: it shades green while the system holds an uptrend and blue while it holds a downtrend. It flips only when a confirmed opposite house fires, so it will not flicker bar to bar. Use it for context, not for entry.
Each takes a raw measure, divides it by its own recent typical size (RMS over 50 bars), and clamps it to a steady plus or minus 4 scale. That is why they read the same on any symbol or timeframe, and why zero always means a genuine flip. A normal trend bar sits near 1.0 on this scale. It is the same normalization idea the Trend Map uses for its evidence buckets, so all three tools speak one language.
Bar height is the Force Index (volume × bar's price change, smoothed). The immediate fight.
| You see | It means |
|---|---|
| Teal column (above zero) | Buyers in control |
| Salmon column (below) | Sellers, mild |
| Maroon column (below) | Sellers, strong |
| Bright vs pale | Past 1.5× normal force vs ordinary |
| Turn circle on zero line | Force just flipped through zero. The exact turn a house keys off |
| Strong triangle (floating out) | Force pushed into strong territory. Faded on first bar, bold when it holds. The thrust |
A green house on a run of teal columns with a bold strong-buy triangle is a buy you can lean on. A house against solid maroon is one to keep small.
The colored line is Conviction (normalized fast-EMA minus slow-EMA). Teal above zero = uptrend, maroon below = downtrend. The grey line is its Signal (slower average), the early-warning line.
| Mark | It means |
|---|---|
| Circle (early cross) | Conviction crossed its Signal, still on the wrong side of zero. Trend losing steam. Heads-up, not a flip |
| Triangle (confirmed) | Conviction crossed zero. The regime actually flipped. The real trigger |
Same grammar as the price chart: the circle is "get ready," the triangle is "go," mirroring triangle-then-house. Circle is early, triangle confirms.
Run the same tool on two timeframes. The faster chart gives the trade, the slower chart gives the permission. A daily green house while the weekly is still blue is a long you take small and on a short leash. A signal that agrees across daily, weekly, and monthly is where you commit. You size by how well the timeframes agree, not by any single chart.
| What you see | Read it as |
|---|---|
| Green house B at a major bottom before a big run | Confirmed buy near the low. Graded B, not A, because momentum was still catching up at the exact turn |
| Green C houses on the way up | Continuation buys inside an established uptrend |
| Salmon triangle, then a blue A right at the top | The heads-up, then the high-conviction sell AT the peak. This is the whole point of the design, catch the top at the top |
| Band fill turns blue after the blue house | Regime has flipped down, hold the bias short until a confirmed green house |
| Yellow triangles in a pullback, no green house yet | Bottom warming up. Correct read is "getting ready," not "buy." Wait for the house |
| Momentum: Conviction just above Signal, both below zero, with a teal early-circle | "Downtrend losing steam." Confirms the yellow triangles. Still not a buy until the confirmed cross |