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    Chart Overlays

    Overlays are the visual context around your signals. Two are on by default; the rest are opt-in so your chart stays readable. Add one at a time and keep only what you actually use.

    Momentum Candles#

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    Overlay playground — switch each layer on and off to see what it adds to your chart before you enable it in TradingView.

    Every bar is colored by momentum rather than by open/close. A volatility-filtered price line tracks the trend, and bars turn the bullish gradient while it is rising, the bearish gradient while it is falling, and accent purple when it is flat. The exact shade is driven by RSI(10), so a strong trend looks visibly brighter than a weak one.

    Read the fade
    Colors fading toward neutral while price still makes new highs is classic momentum divergence — a good moment to tighten stops or take partial profit.

    Reversal Bands#

    Two glowing zones above and below price, built from a 34-period smoothed basis with 3 standard deviations, then offset outward by ATR. When price tags the outer band it is statistically overstretched and prone to snapping back. A small dot (●) prints on the bar that tags the band, and there are dedicated alerts for both sides.

    A band touch is not a signal
    In a strong trend price can ride the band for many bars. Use band tags to take profit or to avoid chasing an entry — not as a reason to fade the trend on their own.

    Active Trend#

    A shaded ribbon that follows the dominant trend, blending a Supertrend, Hull moving averages of the highs and lows, and a 55-period EMA. It shades green above price in an uptrend and red below price in a downtrend. Stay in the trade while price holds its side of the ribbon; a decisive close through it is where trends usually change. Dedicated alerts fire when the ribbon flips bullish or bearish.

    Signal Line#

    A glowing centerline (a Hull moving average whose length scales with your Sensitivity mode) colored by the current trade state and RSI. It is the same line used by Exit Flags: closes below it weaken longs, closes above it weaken shorts. It is the cleanest single line to trail behind a runner.

    Trend Cloud#

    The big-picture layer: three ATR-adaptive trend bases combined into a cloud. Green cloud = the dominant direction is up, red = down. Set speed to Standard (365-bar base) for higher timeframes and Fast (120-bar base) for intraday charts where Standard reacts too slowly.

    Best use of the cloud
    Use it as a direction filter: only take BUY signals while the cloud is green and SELL signals while it is red. That single rule removes most counter-trend losses.

    Overlay settings reference#

    SettingWhat it doesDefaultRangeWhen to change it
    Momentum CandlesColors every bar by trend strengthOnOff if you prefer standard candles
    Reversal BandsOverstretched zones with touch dotsOnOff on very low timeframes
    Active TrendTrend ribbon with trend-flip alertsOffOn when trailing a trend trade
    Signal LineGlowing momentum centerlineOffOn when you exit by momentum
    Trend CloudDominant market direction cloudOffOn as a higher-timeframe filter
    Trend Cloud speedReaction speed of the cloudStandardStandard / FastFast on intraday charts
    S&R ZonesAuto support/resistance zonesOffSee Smart Money & S&R
    Smart MoneyOrder blocks, FVGs, BOS / CHoCHOffSee Smart Money & S&R
    Bull / Bear / AccentThe three colors every element blends fromGreen / Red / PurpleMatch your chart theme or colorblind needs