Chart Toolkit

Overview

Everything on this page lives in the 01 Quick Activations row (Pivots / Trend / Squeeze, all off by default) plus the 08 Overlay Tuninggroup. These tools don't add new engines; they surface state the pillars already compute, so enabling them costs little and the chart stays coherent.

Trend Panel

A compact display pinned to the top of the chart showing the current structural direction, with optional heatmap-style strength derived from the normalized CVMI reading, so you see both which way and how much conviction at a glance.

• OB-Type mode (default): direction follows the last higher-timeframe OrderBlock. Slower, more structural; flips only when the zone regime genuinely changes.
• Pivot-Type mode: direction follows the last confirmed pivot. Faster, more reactive; suits lower-timeframe rotation trading.
• The trend state also powers the Trend Changealert event and the Confluence Engine's trend filter, so the panel is a visualization of a value the whole framework shares.

Squeeze Candles

A Fair Value Gap needs three bars to confirm. Squeeze Candles flag single-bar momentum extremes the moment they close, giving you a first-mover read on structural displacement while everyone waiting for the full 3-bar FVG is still counting.

The detection is a rolling standard-deviation model with two windows:

• Mean Window(default 450): a long baseline of normal candle body size, so short-term noise doesn't shift what counts as “normal.”
• Deviation (default 120): a short window for the standard deviation. When recent candles compress, the threshold drops with them, so the first expansion bar out of a tight coil triggers, which is exactly the bar you want flagged.
• Squeeze Sigma (default 3.0): how many deviations a body must exceed. Lower = more sensitive.

Pivots

Confirmed swing highs and lows, drawn with lagging and forward-projected lines. Pivots are the framework's reference points for liquidity: an untested pivot is a resting-stop pool; a swept one is spent fuel.

• Confirmation windows: Pivot L / R(default 10/10) set how many bars must flank a swing before it confirms. These settings are shared by the pivot display, the Pivot-Type trend mode, and the Matrix's Pivots mode: one sensitivity, consistent everywhere.
• No-repaint convention: pivots are color-differentiated during their unconfirmed window, then solidify. A pivot line never silently vanishes.

FVG overlay

The Show Fair Value Gaps toggle draws the actual gap boxes the engine is processing, bullish and bearish, with tapped portions re-colored as they fill. Two reasons to turn it on:

• Learning: watching the raw gaps alongside the CVMI makes the pressure model tangible within minutes.
• Verification: when you want to know why the oscillator moved or a block's fill % jumped, the overlay shows the exact structures responsible.

For clean day-to-day charts most users leave it off and rely on the pillars' summaries; the information is identical.

Key settings