CandelaCharts - Trend Concepts

📝 Overview

Trend Concepts is a comprehensive trend analysis toolkit that combines four powerful components to identify market direction, strength, and trading opportunities.

The indicator features Bias Magnet—an adaptive baseline that tracks trend direction with dynamic strength visualization and momentum polarity bars. Flux Trend uses ATR-based bands with gradient-filled zones to mark trend reversals and continuation exits. Surge Waves applies a two-pole filter to detect sustained momentum runs and highlight strong directional moves. Velocity Bands creates dynamic deviation-based support and resistance levels with re-entry and rejection signals for mean reversion and reversal setups.

Each component operates independently, allowing you to build a custom trend analysis system tailored to your trading style. The integrated dashboard provides real-time market context through trend consensus (majority vote from enabled components), ADX strength, volatility analysis, volume trends, and momentum indicators. Trading profiles automatically optimize all component parameters for Scalping, Intraday, Swing, or Investment strategies, while Custom mode gives you full manual control. Multiple color themes and comprehensive alert options make this a complete solution for trend-following traders across all timeframes.

📦 Features

This section highlights the core capabilities you'll rely on most.

• Bias Magnet — Adaptive baseline that hugs price without whipsaws, using half-trend style logic. Calculates trend strength (0–100) from slope and momentum, displays dynamic line transparency based on intensity, and provides flip signals (▲/▼) when trend changes. Includes polarity bars (☰) that show MFI-based momentum direction with intensity-based transparency.
  
• Flux Trend — ATR-based trend bands that flip between bullish and bearish regimes. Creates gradient-filled zones between main and secondary bands, marks trend flips with symbols (✦/❖) and connecting lines, and detects exit signals when price leaves the zone after touching it. Ideal for identifying trend reversals and continuation setups.
  
• Surge Waves — Two-pole filter that smooths price action and detects sustained momentum runs. Tracks consecutive rising or falling bars, marks sustained runs (5+ bars) with shapes, and provides confirmation signals when runs begin. The filled tube envelope provides visual context for momentum direction and strength.
  
• Velocity Bands — Dynamic deviation-based bands that adapt to market conditions. Uses outlier-filtered standard deviation to create +1/+2 and -1/-2 bands around a weighted moving average. Detects re-entry signals when price returns from extreme zones and rejection signals when price enters bands but fails to hold. Enhanced gradient fills highlight when price is outside bands.
  
• Trading Profiles — Pre-configured settings that automatically adjust component parameters: Scalping (fast, responsive), Intraday (balanced), Swing (slower, stable), Investment (long-term focus), or Custom (manual control). Profiles optimize Flux Trend length, Surge Waves length, and Velocity Bands deviation period for your trading style.
  
• Dashboard — Real-time market analysis panel showing ticker, timeframe, active profile, trend direction (majority vote from enabled components), ADX strength (0–100), volatility state (High/Normal/Low based on ATR), volume trend (Bullish/Bearish/Neutral), and momentum (RSI-based). Color-coded for quick visual assessment.
  
• Color Themes — Choose from 8 preset themes (Default, Blue-Orange, Green-Orange, Teal-Fuchsia, Aqua-Purple, Black-Green, Black-Aqua, Black-White) or create a custom color scheme. Themes apply consistently across all components for a cohesive visual experience.
  
• Alerts — Individual alert toggles for each component's key signals: Bias Magnet flips (bull/bear), Flux Trend flips (bull/bear), Surge Waves sustained runs (bull/bear), Velocity Bands re-entries (bull/bear), and Velocity Bands rejections (bull/bear). All alerts include the symbol and timeframe in the message.
  

⚙️ Settings

Use these controls to customize the indicator's appearance, behavior, and component parameters.

• Theme — Select a color theme: Default, Blue-Orange, Green-Orange, Teal-Fuchsia, Aqua-Purple, Black-Green, Black-Aqua, Black-White, or Custom. When Custom is selected, use the three color inputs below.
  
• Trading Profile — Select your trading style: Scalping (fast, 30/30/300), Intraday (balanced, 50/50/500), Swing (slower, 80/70/800), Investment (long-term, 100/100/1200), or Custom (use manual component inputs). Profiles automatically adjust Flux Trend length, Surge Waves length, and Velocity Bands deviation period.
  
• Bias Magnet — Enable/disable the adaptive baseline component. Amplitude controls the sensitivity (default: 5, higher = more responsive). Polarity Bars toggles the MFI-based momentum indicators (☰) that appear above/below the baseline.
  
• Flux Trend — Enable/disable the ATR-based trend bands. Length sets the SMA period for the baseline (default: 60, only used in Custom profile). Bands Distance controls the ATR multiplier for band width (default: 3.0, higher = wider bands).
  
• Surge Waves — Enable/disable the two-pole filter component. Length sets the filter period (default: 50, only used in Custom profile). Tube Width controls the ATR multiplier for the filled envelope width (default: 0.14, higher = wider tube).
  
• Velocity Bands — Enable/disable the deviation-based bands. Deviation Length sets the period for standard deviation calculation (default: 500, only used in Custom profile). Higher values create more stable but slower-adapting bands.
  
• Dashboard — Toggle to show/hide the integrated market analysis panel in the middle-right of the chart.
  

⚡️ Showcase

Bias Magnet

Flux Trend

Surge Waves

Velocity Bands

Dashboard


📒 Usage

Follow these steps to effectively use Trend Concepts for trend analysis and trading decisions.

• 1) Select your trading profile — Choose the profile that matches your trading style: Scalping for fast intraday trades, Intraday for day trading, Swing for multi-day positions, or Investment for long-term holds. The profile automatically optimizes all component parameters. Use Custom only if you need specific manual settings.
  
• 2) Enable components strategically — Start with one or two components to avoid visual clutter. Enable the dashboard to see the overall trend consensus.
  
• 3) Interpret Bias Magnet — The adaptive baseline shows trend direction: below price = bullish (acts as support), above price = bearish (acts as resistance). Line transparency indicates trend strength (darker = stronger). Watch for ▲ (bullish flip) and ▼ (bearish flip) signals. Polarity bars (☰) show momentum direction: above baseline = bullish momentum, below = bearish momentum. Intensity of bars reflects momentum strength.
  
• 4) Use Flux Trend for reversals — The gradient-filled zones between bands act as support (bullish) or resistance (bearish). Trend flips are marked with ✦ (bull to bear) or ❖ (bear to bull) symbols. Exit signals (✦/❖ outside bands) indicate when price leaves the zone after touching it, suggesting continuation. Trade flips for reversals or exits for continuations.
  
• 5) Track Surge Waves momentum — The filled tube shows momentum direction (green = bullish, red = bearish). Sustained runs of 5+ consecutive bars in one direction are marked with shapes (square = rising, diamond = falling). Confirmation signals appear when runs begin. Use these to identify strong momentum moves and potential continuation setups.
  
• 6) Trade Velocity Bands extremes — Price beyond +2/-2 bands indicates extreme conditions. Re-entry signals (▼ from above, ▲ from below) suggest mean reversion opportunities. Rejection signals occur when price enters a band but fails to hold, indicating potential reversals. The enhanced gradient fills highlight when price is outside bands, drawing attention to extreme moves.
  
• 7) Use dashboard for context — The dashboard provides a quick market snapshot. Trend shows the majority vote from enabled components (useful when multiple components disagree). Strength (ADX) indicates trend quality: < 20 = weak, 20–40 = moderate, ≥ 40 = strong. Volatility, Volume, and Momentum help assess market conditions before entering trades.
  
• 8) Combine components for confirmation — When multiple components agree on trend direction, confidence increases. For example, if Bias Magnet flips bullish, Flux Trend is in bull mode, and Surge Waves shows rising momentum, you have strong confirmation. Divergences between components can signal potential reversals or weak trends.
  
• 9) Set up alerts strategically — Enable alerts for the components you actively trade. Bias Magnet and Flux Trend alerts catch trend changes early. Surge Waves alerts identify momentum shifts. Velocity Bands alerts catch mean reversion and rejection setups. Use alerts to monitor multiple charts without constant watching.
  
• 10) Adjust for your timeframe — Higher timeframes (daily, weekly) provide more reliable signals but fewer opportunities. Lower timeframes (15m, 1h) offer more signals but require faster decisions. Consider using a higher timeframe profile (e.g., Swing) on lower timeframes for more stable signals, or a lower timeframe profile (e.g., Scalping) on higher timeframes for more responsive signals.
  

🚨 Alerts

Trend Concepts provides comprehensive alert options for each component's key signals. Alerts fire once per bar close to avoid spam.

Bias Magnet Alerts

• BM Bull — Triggers when Bias Magnet trend flips to bullish (baseline crosses above price and confirms).
  
• BM Bear — Triggers when Bias Magnet trend flips to bearish (baseline crosses below price and confirms).
  

Flux Trend Alerts

• FT Bull — Triggers when Flux Trend flips from bearish to bullish (price crosses above upper band).
  
• FT Bear — Triggers when Flux Trend flips from bullish to bearish (price crosses below lower band).
  

Surge Waves Alerts

• SW Bull — Triggers when Surge Waves detects a sustained rising run (5+ consecutive bars rising, confirmed on bar close).
  
• SW Bear — Triggers when Surge Waves detects a sustained falling run (5+ consecutive bars falling, confirmed on bar close).
  

Velocity Bands Alerts

• VB Re-entry Bull — Triggers when price re-enters Velocity Bands from below the lower -2 band (bullish mean reversion signal).
  
• VB Re-entry Bear — Triggers when price re-enters Velocity Bands from above the upper +2 band (bearish mean reversion signal).
  
• VB Rejection Bull — Triggers when price enters the lower band but rejects back above it (bullish reversal signal).
  
• VB Rejection Bear — Triggers when price enters the upper band but rejects back below it (bearish reversal signal).
  

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